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 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 MIDLAND MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



35TH MEETING, APKIL iith, 1902. 



The President in the chair. 



Exhibits. 



The evening was devoted to the examination of a collection of Algerian 

 HcUcidac, e.xhibited by Mr. H. H. Bloomer, who made some remarks upon the 

 various species, and their range and character of variation. 



Mr. Overton showed examples of Pliysa hypuoniiu from Tenby, P. foiitiiialis 

 from Sutton Coldheld, P. heterosfroplia from South Staffordshire, and P. acuta 

 from Kew. 



36TH MEETING, MAY qth, 1902. 

 The President in the chair. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. H. H. Bloomer : Sixty-nine species of Aclmtiiuila, from the 

 Sandwich Islands. 



By Mr. Breeden : Specimens of Pliysa liypiioniiii, Helix piilcliella, H. 

 pyginaca, Vertigo iiiinutissiina, and V. pyginaca, from Charmouth, Dorset. 



By Mr. Overton :' A curiously banded and malformed shell of L/;;//;<u'a 

 pereger, from Sutton Coldtield, also L. glabra, from Stafford. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



PilsbPy, Henry A. — Tryon's Manual of Conchology, ser. ii, vol. xiv 

 (pt. 56), pp. 193 — 302, pis. 37 — 62. Philadelphia : Academy of Natural 

 Sciences. 



The author continues his enumeration of the Ccrioiiidac, describing the 

 following as new: — C. cayiuaiicnse, irom Grand Cayman Island; C. crassius- 

 cnliiiii V. siiiitliii, from Sagua de Tanamo ; C. loiigidcns, from Cuba ; 

 C. cxinninu v. fratcrnuin, from San Salvador ; C. bryanti v. piidicum, and 

 C. riibicinidiiin v. Iictcrodon, from Inagua. 



The present part concludes volume fourteen, and includes an Index to 

 Ccrioii and References to the sixty-two plates. 



Dr. Pilsbry is to be congratulated on the completion of a further volume 

 of this invaluable work, which is yet a desideratum in many of our museum 

 and public libraries. 



Glide, G. K. — Descriptions of new Helicoid land shells from Japan. Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 617. 

 The new species here described are : — Chloritis (TricJwcIiloritis) pnniila, 

 making the third species of this genus recorded from Japan, and Eulota 



(Acgista) niiuiuloidcs. 



I. Records Australian Museum, Vol. iv, No. 3, p. ia6. 



