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MOLLOSCA. 



A new List of British Mollusks.— We are pleased to bring to the 

 notice of conchologists a new list of Mollusks which has lately reached us. 

 It is printed in clear type on one side of the page only, post octavo, and is 

 entitled " A Complete Catalogue of British Mollusca, compiled from Gwyn 

 Jeffreys' ' British Couchology,' with alterations and additions to date, by 

 Charles Jefferys." Recent though it be, it is nevertheless not quite up to date, 

 for many of the species added in the second edition of Sowerby's ' Illustrated 

 Index' do not here find a place; genera in many instances have not been 

 altered or revised ; whilst it is a matter for regret that Fischer's more recent 

 classification has not been considered; but this of course would have 

 necessitated the omission of Gwyn Jeffreys' name— a potent talisman 

 with many. Handy as this Catalogue undoubtedly is, a greater desideratum 

 would be a list brought thoroughly up to date, with sufficient space left 

 between the names in which to write the locality, when a complete label 

 could be cut out and used. To save space, we would readily forego the 

 innumerable and worthless varietal names with which the present Catalogue 

 is interspersed, to the delight, it may be, of the tyro, but to the amusement 

 not un mingled with vexation, of the experienced conchologist. The new 

 list may be obtained of Mr. H. W. Marsden, of Gloucester. 



PEOTEACHEATA. 



Peripatus in New South Wales.— It may interest your readers to 

 know that during a visit which I recently paid to Cassilis, a small town 

 situated on one of the tributaries of the Hunter River, and some 120 miles 

 from the coast, I had the good fortune to find Peripatus (presumably 

 P. Leuckarti, Sanger) under a stone at the foot of a grey gum tree. As 

 yet, I believe, there is no record of the occurrence of Peripatus in this 

 colony, nor has it previously been found so far from the sea-coast. My 

 specimen agrees in every particular with the one from Gippsland, Victoria, 

 which Mr. Fletcher exhibited at the July meeting of the Linnean Society 

 of New South Wales.— A. Sidney Olliff (Australian Museum, Sydney, 



Nov. 5, 1887). 



[Mr. Fletcher's specimen is stated (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W.) to have 

 been found under a rotten log at Warragul, Gippsland, Victoria. Others 

 from Cardwell and Brisbane were exhibited by Mr. H. Tryon at a meeting 

 of the Royal Society of Queensland in April last, and Prof. Jeffery Bell has 

 recorded (Ann. Mag. N. H. 4887, p. 252) the receipt of specimens from the 

 Queensland Scrubs, Wide Bay. The above note, therefore, from Mr. Olliff 

 indicating a new and intermediate locality, shows the wide range of 

 Peripatus on at least the eastern side of the Australian continent.— Ed.] 



