THE NAUTILUS. 71 



like var. complanata but the sculpture is like tridentata. My largest 

 shell, the dead one, is 20^ mm. diam. I thought at first they were 

 complanata but on comparing with typical shells from Burnside, Ky., 

 collected by Sargent, I saw the difference. — Geo. H. Clapp. 



PUBLICATIONS EECEIVED. 



Notes on the Mollusca of the Arabian Ska, Persian 

 Gulf, and Gulf of Oman, mostly dredged by Mr. B. W. Townsend, 

 with descriptions of twenty-seven species by Jas. Cosmo Melvill. 

 Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. ser. 7, Vol. iv. pp. 81-01 pis. i, ii. 

 Aug. 1899. 



Report on the Marine Mollusca obtained during the 

 First Expedition of Prof. A. C. Haddon to the Torres 

 Straits in 1888-89. By Jas. Cosmo Melvill, and Robt. Standen. 

 Linn. Soc. Journ. Zool, Vol. xxvii, pp. 150-206, pis. 10, 11, 1899. 



Review of the work done in that region with a list of the collect- 

 ing stations of Prof. Haddon is followed by a catalogue of the species. 

 449 species are recorded, including 24 that are new. One new genus 

 of Neritidae, Magadis, and a new subgenus of Pholadonn/a Sowb., 

 Parilimya, arc described. The paper closes with some very interest- 

 ing remarks on the few recent species of Pholadomya. — C. W. J. 



\Vest American Eulimid.e, By Edw. ( '*. Vanatta. Proc. Acad. 

 Xat. Sci. 1899, pp. 254-257, pi. xi. Three new species are described 

 and EvMma compacta Cpr., E. micans u Cpr." Reeve, and E. rutilis 

 Cpr. are redescribed and figured. 



Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 

 Vol. Ill, no. 5, July, 1899. Lieut-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen deliv- 

 livered the Presidential Address on February 10 on the subject of 

 Indian malacology, a field which he has made peculiarly his own. 

 The address begins with an interesting sketch of the workers on In- 

 dian mollusks, and continues with a review of the progress and pre- 

 sent state of our knowledge of the most prominent and characteristic 

 forms of the mollusk life of India. Particularly interesting are the 

 paragraphs upon < 'amptoceras and the Zonitidce. The development 

 of the latter group in India is enormous in number of genera and 

 species, and remarkable in the series of forms leading to slug-like 

 genera such as Girasia. And as it is to Godwin-Austen himself that 



