58 THE NAUTILUS. 



NOTES, NEWS AND REVIEWS. 



The Use of the Generic Name Helicostyla In the dis- 

 cussion of the nonienchiture of '■^ Cuchlosty/a," it has not been noticed 

 that Morch, in 1865, used the name Helicostyla to include Axina, 

 Corasia, HelicobuUmus, etc. He gives a new name Pythohelix for 

 the species boholensis and fulgetium arid misspells Orustia ("Onistia") 

 and Cor«s«a (" Coracia "). See Journ. de Conchyl.. 1865, p. 385. 

 _H. A. P. 



The Zoological Record, Vol. xxxix, 1902. MoUusca. By 

 E. R. Sykes, B. A., assisted by E. A. Smith, I. S. O., pp. 85. The 

 total number of titles recorded is 611 ; this of course including many 

 papers purely palceontological. As in the preceding records compiled 

 by Mr. Sykes, the summaries relating to Anatomy and Distribution 

 are especially full, and cannot fail to be of the utmo&^t utility to many 

 students. Thus, on p. 45, references to all articles dealing with 

 inland moUusks of the United States may be found. It may be well 

 to call attention here to a slip, whereby the species of New Mexico are 

 placed under " Neotropical, Mexican Region," p. 44, and omitted 

 from "American Region." While New Mexico has a "Lower 

 Austral " element in Holospira, this genus has occurred only in a 

 few places in the extreme south, and the fauna as a whole is over- 

 whelmingly " nearctic." Again, Washington, Oregon and Bahamas 

 are put in the "Transatlantic Province" (p. 50), whereas the two 

 former should have been placed in the " Californian," and the latter 

 in the " Caribbean." The systematic part seems to be very well 

 done ; though in treating the Pelecypoda, a further classification 

 would certainly facilitate reference. The several parts of the 

 Record may now be purchased separately, the Mollusca for 4, the 

 Brachiopoda 1 shilling.' They will be found well worth the price, 

 even to the local naturalist, for the information on what is being 

 done the world over in the study of moUusks. 



Notes on Polyplacopiiora of the Conchylien Cabinet. — 

 The monograph on this group, by S. Clessin, has now progressed 



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