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NOTES AND NEWS. 
Messrs. 8. H. Srupakorr anp Geo. H. Ciapp gave a lecture 
on shells at the regular monthly meeting of the Academy of Science 
and Art of Pittsburgh, held in the lecture room of the Carnegie 
Library, Pittsburgh, on Friday Evening, June 5th. It was illus- 
trated by specimens from the collections in the Museum, and wall 
charts. After the lecture an adjournment was taken to the Museum. 
The lecture is the first of a series arranged with the idea of populariz- 
ing the Museum, which occupies spacious rooms in the Carnegie 
Library. 
Nore on Lia, Atpers.—The names Lia and Leia being pre- 
occupied, Schaufuss proposed the term InL1acutus for this Jamaican 
group of Cylindrellide, in the first edition of Peetel’s Catalogue 
(Molluscorum Systema et Catalogus. System und Aufzihlung sim- 
mtlicher Conchylien der Sammlung von Fr. Paetel, 1869, p. 15). 
This will take precedence over Vendryesia Simpson (Proce. U.S. Nat. 
Mus., xvii, 1894, p.430). Fauxuxus Schauf. is proposed for Fuula 
H. Ad., a South African group of Pupide, and new names are also 
brought forward for Parthenia, Cantharidus, Orphnus, <Acicula, 
Rupicola and some other groups. Most of these changes are un- 
necessary, but they seem to have escaped general notice. 
Nore on Mactra.—In the Saco market, a few days ago, a spec- 
imen of Mactra solidissima was opened, and found to have another 
of the same species in the gill cavity; the sizes in inches were: 
1. 33X22X1f%s. 
De Vs MI. 
The size of the smaller leads me to snspect that it had been some 
time in the larger, not as a parasite, but as partner—Hernry W. 
WINKLEY, Saco, Me. 
Mr. CHARLES W. JOHNSON, junior editor of the NauriLus, sailed 
on the 13th of July for Liverpool. He will spend the summer in 
studying the Museums of England, France and Germany, returning 
in September. 
Mr. FREDERICK STEARNS, of Detroit, Mich., has departed upon 
an extended tour in South America. 
NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
DIAGNOSES OF NEW SPECIES OF MOLLUSKS FROM THE WeEsT Coast 
or America, by W. H. Dall (From Proceedings of the U. S. Na- 
tional Museum xviii, 1895, pp. 7-20). 
