70 THE NAUTILUS. 
quite hard to clean properly. The Indians are fond of the sole- 
like strip which protects the insides, and are fond of the eggs which 
‘are very numerous. ‘These animals look so much like the rocks on 
which they cling, that few of the frequenters of the beach knew the 
animal when we showed it to them. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Green-Hovuse SHetis.—This spring I found some Zonites glaber 
Stud. in one of the green-houses of this city. It was identified for me 
by Dr. W. H. Dall. Arion hortensis Fér. was found at the same 
place and identified by Mr. H. A. Pilsbry. Zonites lucidus Drap is 
found in all the green-houses of the city. 
P. B. Ranpo.pu, Seattle, Washington. 
Nore on Lepa carLata Hinps.—This species was described by 
Hinds in the Geology of the Voyage of the Sulphur, p. 64, pl. 18, 
fig. 13, 1844, and Proc. Zool. Soe. London for 1843, p. 99. But 
Conrad had already described a fine species of Leda from the Clai- 
borne sands under this specific name, in the Am. Jour. Sci., Vol. 
XXIII, p. 343, Jan., 1833. This, in December of the same year, 
was renamed brogniarti by Lea, Contr. to Geology, p. 82, pl. 3, fig. 
61. Consequently the species of Hinds requires a new specific 
name, As there is already a L. hindsii of Hanley, I propose to 
substitute for coelata the specific name of taphria, while Leda brog- 
niarti Lea must retain the prior name of Conrad.—W. H. Datu. 
CALLISTA VARIANS HANLEY, IN EASTERN FLoripA.—Mr. J. J. 
White, of Rockledge, Fla., reports the finding of numerous speci- 
mens of this species in Lake Worth, on mud flats near the Inlet. 
This seems to be the first finding of this West Indian species in 
Florida. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
DIAGNOSES OF NEW MOLLUSKS FROM THE SuRVEY OF THE MExt- 
cAN Bounpary, by W.H. Dall (Proc. U.S. N. Mus., xviii, pp. 1-6). 
Patula strigosa var. concentrata, New Mexico; a small race, further 
southward than any other reported. 
Epiphragmophora arizonensis, near Tucson, Arizona. 
Kpiphragmophora hatchitana, Hachita Grande Mt. 
Epiphragmophora arnheimi, California. 
