iS THE NAUTILUS. 
species of a decided Polynesian aspect are reported from the Gulf of 
California region; among these are Chicoreus palmarose mexicana, 
Ranella cruentata, Purpura hippocastanum, Casmaria vibex and 
Luponia isabella mexicana. This paper includes also revised de- 
scriptions of species previously described by the author, notably, 
Dolabella californica, Onchidella binneyi= O. carpenteri Stearns not 
Binney, etc. A newspecies of Tectarius, T. atyphus, the first of this 
group detected on the West Coast is described ; it occurs at Manta 
on the coast of Ecuador. Other species are referred to and com- 
mented upon. 
The last of the foregoing titles relates to a paper hitherto briefly 
noticed in “ The Nautrius, ” (December, 1893). This includes a 
list of Galapagos shells, compiled from the collections made by the 
Albatross, Dr. Habel, Dr. Wolf, the Petrel, Dr. W. H. Jones and 
the papers and publications of Carpenter, Albers, E. A. Smith, 
Wimmer, Ancey, Reibisch, Dall, etc., etc. The Albatross collectors 
obtained 109 species and several varieties; of these 59 were not 
before reported as occurring at the Galapagos. A few new species 
were detected and are described by the author. The total as shown 
in the summarized list is 288 species and 30 varieties. 
The land shells are of a distinctly West American type, compar- 
able with Chilean and Peruvian forms, and with the exception of 
half a dozen local species, the marine forms are West American— 
with a slight color of Caribbean or Antillean types. 
Norers on Recent Coiuecrions or N. A. Moiuusks, ETC., by 
R. E. C. Stearns (Proce. U. 8. Nat. Mus. 1893). Dr. Stearns records 
numerous new localities for various land and fresh-water shells, dis- 
cussing particularly the range of Patula strigosa Hemphilli, and its 
occurrence in Arizona at Coon Mountain, that problematic crater. 
Triodopsis Levetter is reported from Fort Huachuca and Tucson 
Arizona (a large form). Ft. Huachuca is so near the Mexican 
boundary that Stearns believes both P. hemphilli and T. Levetter 
will eventually be found in the Mexican state Sonora.  Helicina 
orbiculata was collected by Mr. V. Bailey near Marble Cave, Stone 
Co., Mo., probably near its northern limit. Attention is called to 
the discontinuous distribution of the section Mesodon, which is repre- 
sented by several western species, among them townsendiana and 
ptychophora; records of North Dakota and eastern Montana locali- 
ties for Mesodon are still lacking. In this tract muitilineata and 
thyroides are to be expected, we think, but suitable stations are not 
very numerous west of Minnesota and Iowa. 
