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THE NAUTILUS. ala 
Alt. 15°0; lon. 18:0; long. of post-umbonal part 11:0; diam. 8:0 
mm. Habitat from Curacao and St. Thomas, West Indies, to Cedar 
Keys, Florida, from low water to 26 fathoms; Chas. T. Simpson 
and other collectors, in the U.S. Nat. Museum. 
This is probably the species which has been identified by Antil- 
lean collectors with Circe (Lioconcha) hebrea (Lam.) Sowerby, but 
it is a smaller shell and a true Meretriz, represented by specimens 
from seven localities in the Museum collection and noted in Bull. 
37, U.S. N. M., p. 56, No. 285 in 1889. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Unto ELLIpsis AND U. TrENUIsstmus.—I have never seen Unio 
ellipsis Lea and tenuissimus Lea noted from Grand Rapids, Mich. I 
wish to report the finding of 23 specimens of ellipsis and 24 of tenwis- 
simus in Grand River, about two miles south of the city ; they were 
taken by me last summer.—W. Miuer, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Mr. Wm. B. MarsHatt, formerly on the zoological staff of the 
N. Y. State Museum, at Albany, is now in Washington as an assist- 
ant in the Dept. of Mollusks. 
Dr. Wm. H. Dawu leaves Washington on the 16th of May to 
spend the summer in Alaska in field work. 
Messrs. Usetma C. SmitH AND ROBERTS LEBouriLuieErR, of 
Philadelphia, have returned from a naturalizing trip to Jamaica. 
GONIOBASIS VIRGINICA Gmel. occurred in considerable numbers 
in the stomach of a specimen of the American Golden Eye ( Claucion- 
etta clangula americana) from a Philadelphia market, which I ex- 
amined March 28.—H. W. Fow er, Phila. 
Mr. Epw. W. Roper, of Revere, Mass., has returned from 
Jamaica, where he has spent the winter. Good success in collecting 
shells and ferns is reported. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Mission ScIENTIFIQUE AU MEXIQUE, ete., Etudes sur les Mollus- 
ques Terrestres et Fluviatiles, par MM. P. Fischer and H. Crosse (Vol. 
II, pt.7). The present part contains the remainder of the Unionide 
