106 THE NAUTILUS. 



A fine Bpeciea in the Naticidae may prove to be a new genua. 



Velutina laevigata Linn. 



The specimens we obtained were the largest and finest I have 

 ever seen. The largest one is 8.2 mm. in length. 



Panomya mnpla Dall. 



Of this odd and rare species we were fortunate to obtain sev- 

 eral specimens. 



A report will be published about April, 1919, and will have 

 a full description of each species; and we hope to have figures 

 of most of them. — Ida S. Oldroyd, Stanford University, Cali- 

 fornia. 



PUBLICATIONS EECEIVED. 



Foreign Land Snails in Michigan. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. 

 Univ. of Mich., no. 58. By Bryant Walker. The following 

 are recorded: 



Arion ater (L. ), garden in Detroit, one specimen. 



Arion circumscriptus Johns. " Cat Hole," near Ann Arbor. 



Subulina octona (Brug. ) and Opeas clavulinum kyotense Pils. , 

 conservatory in Lansing. 



Vitrea lucida (Dr.), conservatory, Bell Isle Park. 



Pleurobema clava (Lam.) and Planorbis dilatatus buch- 

 ANENsis Lea in Michigan. Occ. Pap., etc., no. 51. B}' Mina 

 L. Winslow. P. clava was taken by the author in Hillsdale 

 Co. , the Planorbis near Harbert, Berrien Co. Excellent figures 

 of P. dilatatus and P. d. buchanemis are given, with a biblio- 

 graphy of the species and notes on distribution. — H. A. P. 



MoLLUScAN Fauna from San Francisco Bay. By. E. L. 

 Packard (Univ. of Cal. Publications, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 199- 

 452, pla. 14-60, 1918). This valuable publication is the re- 

 sults of the work of U. S. Steamer " Albatross," commissioned 

 in Oct., 1911, by the Bureau of Fisheries to make a biological 



