No. 9.g 



SEPTEMBER, 1879. 



[Vot. 2. 



THE 



JOURNAL 



OF 



CONCHOLOGY. 



ESTABLISHED IN 1 874 AS 



THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF CONCHO LOGY. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS: page 



Notes on the species of the Genus Scutus (with woodcut). ... 



Edgar A. Smith, F. Z. S. 257 



Helix hortensis van Arenicola J. S. Gibbons, M.B, 264 



Description of Amphipeplea Petterdi, n. sp., from New Guinea 



William Nelson. 267 



Achatina accula Mull, in the Isle of Wight ... ... C. Ashford. 267 



Helix pulchella and H. cellaria of i^/«/^. found in Australia; with 



Notes on their Distribution .. J. Brazier, CM. Z.S., &c., «ic. 281 



Pupa umbilicata ZJra/. in South Africa ... J. S. Gibbons, M.B. 282 



Helix rotundata v. alba near Harrogate ... ... J. W. Taylor 282 



Ancylus fluviatilis v. albida at Roundhay, near Leeds... W. Nelson. 282 



Zonites excavatus Bean at Newlay ... ... ... J. W. Taylor 286 



Description of Helix Petterdiana, new species . . . John W. Taylor. 287 

 Contributions to a better knowledge of the Freshwater Shells of 



Queensland, No. I. — Descriptions of Three New Physre... 



Wm. Nelson & J. W. Taylor. 288 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES: 



Zoological Laboratory at Newport, Rhode Island, U. S. ... ... 265 



Watford Natural History Society and Hertfordshire Field Club. ... 265 



A New Catalogue of the Genus Par tula... .. ... ... ... 265 



Mr, Andrew Garrett ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 266 



Vernacular Names and Folk-Lore ... ... ... ... ... 266 



Muscatine Conchological Club ... ... ... ... ... ... 266 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 1876 268 



PROCEEDINGS of the OONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



of Great Britain and Ireland 283 



LONDON : 



DAVID BOGUE, 3, St. Martin's Place, Trafalgar Square, W.C 



LEEDS: TAYLOR BROS., St. Ann Street. 



BERLIN; R, FRIEDLANDER & SOHN, Carlstrasse, ii. 



HOBART town, TASMANIA : W. LEGRAND. 



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