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just as we eat oysters at home, excepting that he had scalded them 

 first. Before I left I had secured fifty nice specimens, and learned 

 the locality, which is Mar del Plata, a summer resort on tlie coast 

 of Argentina. I can find no figure of it in d'Orbigny, and from 

 Tryon's Structural and Systematic Conehology I judge it to be a 

 Jjutrarta. 



" Helix ladea is extremely common in the markets at Buenos 

 Ayres, and I suppose it can he accounted for by the numerous 

 Italians there. 



" I want to mention that while coming down here we were boarded 

 when three hundred miles off the coast of Brazil (lat. 30° 09' 07" S., 

 long. 45° 3B' 39" W.) by a swarm of decapods, they flying from 

 the water and landing on our deck and in the chains. Our deck is 

 at least twelve feet above the water, and to get upon it they had 

 to go over the hammock nettings. I secured fifteen specimens 

 of various sizes. There were hundreds more but they were injured 

 so much by their foil as to be of no value. I enclose a hasty trace- 

 ing from a water-color sketch I made from the largest one." 



The Unionid^ of Spoon River, Fulton Co., 111., are enumerated 

 and intelligently discussed by Dr. "W. S. Strode in the American 

 2\aturallst for June. 



The Records of progress in American zoology which the 

 American Naturalist publishes from time to time are a total failure 

 as far as mollusks are concerned. The most prominent feature of 

 the record is the omission of important papei'S. Our contemporary 

 should not judge American malacology by the handful of papers 

 that chance to fall upon his desk. 



At the :\iONTnLY meeting of the Linnean Society of New South 

 Wales, Australia, June 30, 1892, a paper was read entitled "On 

 the Genus Perrieria," by C. Hedley, F. L. S. This paper deals 

 with the rectification of nomenclature; it points out (1) that the 

 type of Coeliaxis is and must remain, not exifjiia Ad. & Angf., as 

 misquoted by Fischer and Tryon, but layardi Ad. & Ang., as insti- 

 tuted by the founders ; (2) that exigua was based in error upon 

 specimens of australi-^ ; (3) that anstralis and layardi are generically 

 incompatible ; and (4) that audralis (= exigua) is rightfully com- 

 prehended under the genus Perrieria Tapparone-Canefri. 



An apropos addition to this " clearing up" may be made here. 

 Ancey, in the Conchologist's Exchange, September 1887, p. 39, 



