THE NAUTILUS. 71 



Astarte lutea, Perkins, described in Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 :xiii, 150, 1869, as a new species from New Haven, Connecticut, is a 

 variety of A. undata, Gould. This species has been dredged in 

 Newport Harbor and various otlier places south of Cai)e Cod. 



SUB-FAMILY CARDITIN.E. 



This Sub-family contains fourteen genera, six of which are fossil. 

 Of the remaining genera, one only, Venericardia, inhabits the coasts 

 New England. 



186. — Venericardia (Cyclocardia) horeaH)<, Conrad. 

 Syns. : 



Cardita horeaUs, Con. Reeve, De Kay, Stimp., etc. 



Actinobolus horealis, H. & A. Adams. 



Archirus rudis, Humph., MSS. 



Cardita vestita, Desh. 



(To be continued.) 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



Mission Scientifique an Me.vique et dans VAmerique Centrale, 

 Etudes sur les Molhisques terrestres et fiuviati/es, by M M. P. Fischer 

 and H. Crosse. The fascicle of this magnificent work last issued 

 contains part of the Cyclophorldce and the Cyclostomatidce, with 

 several plates illustrating the Ampullariidoe. Of particular interest 

 is the discussion (p. 148-150) of the genus Cyclofus. The authors 

 purpose the name Neocyclotus for a genus to comprise all of the 

 American Cyclophoridce with sharp lip and solid calcareous many- 

 whorled operculum ; these shells have heretofore been called Cyclofus 

 in American collections. The anatomy is fully worked out. The 

 following groups of exclusively Mexican species are also fully 

 described and illustrated : Tomocyclus C. & F. (containing Mexican 

 species formerly referred to Megalomastoma), Habropoma C. &. F. 

 and Amphicyclotus C. & F. (for species referied by previous authors 

 to Cyclophorus). The plates, drawn by Arnoul, are superb. Messrs. 

 Fischer and Crosse are to be congratulated on the progress of this 

 magnificent work, indisj^ensable to students of the tropical Ameri- 

 can fauna. — P. 



Nomenclature and Check-List of Xorth American Land 

 Shells, by H. A. Pilsbry. (From Proc. A. N. S., Phila.) A 

 pamphlet of twenty pages, containing a complete lisL of United 



