No. 4. 



DECEMBER 30th, 1901. 



Vol. VIII. 



THE 



JOURNAL 



OF 



MALACOLOGY 



€stabUsIuti in \S0O as " ^he Conchologist, a Journal of tMahicologg." 



EDITED BY 



WALTER E. COLLINGE, 



Lecturer on Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in the 

 University of Birmingham. 



President of the Midland Malacological Society. 



WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF 

 Dr. JOSEF F. BABOR. CHARLES HEDLEY, F.L.S. 



The Rev. A. H. COOKE, M.A., F.Z.S. E. R. SYKES, B.A., F.Z.S., F.L.S. 

 B. B. WOODWARD, F.G.S., F.L.S. 



Contents. 



On some Land Shells from British East Africa. . . . . . . . . By Edgar A. Smith. 



The Anatomy of the British Species of the genus Solen. .. .. By H. H. Bloomer. 



Descriptions of five new species of Shells. .. .. .. .. By G. B. Sowerby, F.L.S. 



Descriptions of new species of Xesta, Amphidrontus, and Cyclostotna from Madagascar and 



Perak By Hugh Fulton. 



Malacological Notes By E. R. Sykes, B.A., F.L.S. 



Ou two new and three hitherto unfigured species of Phctopylis from Tonkin. 



By G. K. Gude, F.Z.S. 

 Description of some new species of Slugs collected by Mr. H. Fruhstorfer. 



By Walter E. CoUinge. 



Notes on two Californian Nudibranchs By T. D. A. Cockerel 1. 



Obituary. M. F. Woodward. 



Physa hetcrostrcpha. Say, in South Staffordshire. 

 Alitalia gagatcs, Drp., at Sutton Coldfield. 

 Limax ma.ximus, L., at Los Angeles, California. 

 Proceedings of the Midland Malacological Society. 

 Current Literature. 

 General Reviews. Editor's Notes. . . 



By John Linton. 



By H. Overton. 



By T. D. A. Cockerell. 



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