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1905. Preston (H. B.). — Descriptions of new Species of Marine 

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1902. Shopland (E. R.). — List of Marine Shells collected in the 



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1903. Smith (Edgar A.). — Marine Mollusca in ' Fauna and Geo- 



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 vol. ii. pp. 589-630, pis. xxxv. & xxxvi. 



1904. Id. — Natural History .Notes from H.M. Indian Marine 



Survey Steamer ' Investigator,' Commander T. H. Heming, 

 R.N.— Series iii. No. 1. On Mollusca from the Bay of 

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 pp. 453-473 ; xiv. pp. 1-14. 

 1906. Id. — Ditto. Series iii. No. 10. Ann. Nat. Hist, xviii. 

 pp. 157-175, 245-264. 



1905. SowERBY (CI. B.). — Descriptions of new Species of Shells, 



mostly from Ceylon. Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. pp. 184-192. 

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 1901. Sturany, R. — Lamellibranchiaten des Rothen-Meeres. 



Ber. Comm. Ocean. Forschungen, vii. 1901, pp. 255-295, 



7 pis. 

 1903. Id. — Gastropoden (und Amphineuren) des Rothen-Meeres. 



Denks. Ak. Wien, Ixxiv. pp. 219-283. 7 pis. 

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steindachneri, Limopsis elachista, Diplodonta raveyensis, 



(fee, have been also found to occur in the Gulf of Oman. ] 

 1 905. Id. — Beitriige zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna des Rothen- 

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Malak. Ges. pp. 132-146, fig. 

 1903. Sykes (E. R.). — Polyplacophora. In Herdman, Report of 



the Peai'l-Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar, Part i. 



Suppl. Rep. iv. pp. 177-180, 1 plate. London, 4to. 

 1905. Id. — Description of Marginella hinotata., n. sp. P. Malac. 



Soc. Lond. vi. pp. 315-318, pi. xvii. 

 1905. Yayssiere (A.). — Note sur les Cyprceides recueillis par 



M. Ch. Gravier a Djibouti. Bull. Mus. Paris, xi. j)p. 165- 



169. 

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thid^es recueillis par M. Ch. Gravier aux environs de 



Djibouti et d'Obock. Bull. Mus. Paris, x. pp. 354-359. 



It will not be amiss here to repeat that the region embraced 

 in this paper includes all the seas noith of an imaginary straight 

 line drawn obliquely from Cape Ras-el-Had, Arabia, near Maskat 

 (Muscat), to Panjim in Continental India, say, from Lat. 22° 

 34' N., Long. 51° 48' E., to Lat. 15" 50' N., Long. 74" E. 



