366 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 1878. 



adriatica Philippi, is described a new var. Seguenzai S. & P.), 2 

 Turbo, 2 Phasianella, 2 Adeorbis, 3 Neritina, 2 Torinia, 5 

 Solarium, 3 Cirsoti-ema (one new C anso?iia S. & P.), 4 Opalia 

 (one new, (9. ridens S. & P.), 6 Scalaria, 2 Typhis, 18 Murex, 

 3 Purpura, 2 Euthria, i Metula, 7 Pollia, 5 Fusus, i each of 

 7%(?j', Cyclops, Pseudostrombus, 2 Eione, (one new, ^. Paretoi 

 S. & P.), 20 iVd'j'i-a (new, /Y Libassii de Stefani iV; Tounioueri 

 S. & P.^iV. P as te roti ?M.ct.), 6 Columbella (one new, C vittata 

 S. & P.), 3 Strombina, 4 Fasciolaiia and 6 Mit7'a. 



Stearns (R. E. C.) — Description of a new species of 

 Dolabelia from the Gulf of California, with remarks 

 on other rare or little-known species from the same 

 region. — Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1878, p. 395 to 401 

 and plate 7. 



The new species is Dolabelia Californica. The other species 

 referred to are Murex ( Ocinebra) erinaceoides Val. (=? Ai. calif orni- 

 cus Hds.) ; Alacron /Ethiops Reeve {^M. Kelletiii Hinds); 

 Cyprcea ( Luponia controversa Gray ; and Onchidella Carpenteri, 

 ^iea.xn'a^^Onchidinm Carpenteri W. G. Binney). Remarks by 

 Mr. G. W. Tryon junr., are intercalated in the remarks on some 

 of the species. 



Studer (Prof T.) — Contribution to the Natural History 

 of the Invertebrate animals of Kerguelensland. — 



Arch, fiir Naturgesch, 44th year, vol. i., part I., 3 plates. 



Smith (Edgar A., F.Z.S.( — Abnormal growth of a New 

 Zealand Land Snail. — Zool., Feb. 1878, 3rd series, vol. 

 ii., pp. 61 and 62. 



A specimen of Paryphania Hochsetteri Pfr., from the Whaka- 

 marama Mountains, N.W. of Nelson, N.Z., the peculiarity of 

 which consists in the flexibility of its substance and the total 

 absence of the shelly deposit which lines the interior of normal 

 specimens — Mr. Smith surmises that it had been reared in a 

 situation where it was unable to obtain the requisite quota of car- 

 bonate of lime. 



