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The next chapter is entitled Siao si yang ki, or an Account of the 

 Little Western Ocean. Under this denomination are included India, 

 Persia, Arabia, and the countries north of the Himalaya as far as the 

 sea. The account however is so extremely meagre and uninteresting, 

 consisting of little more than a catalogue of names and a statement of 

 rude distances and hearings, that I will not detain the reader with fur- 

 ther details. 



The sixth Chapter is entitled Ta si yang M y or an account of the 

 Great Western Ocean, by which is understood Europe, and Africa, or the 

 Kingdom of the Black Devils. It is even less interesting than the pre- 

 ceding, and is evidently gleaned from imperfect European materials. 



Two short chapters conclude the work : one giving an account of the 

 island called Kwan loen, the Con non, or Pulo Condor of our maps ; and 

 the other describing a small island in the China sea named Nan 6 khi. 



Miscellaneous. 



Notes on the Rev. F. Mason's Paper " On the Shells of the Tenas- 



serim Provinces."* By W. H. Benson, Esq. 



(Communicated by Dr. T. Cantor.) 



Helix procumhens, Gould. This is Helix delibrata, Benson, {Journal 

 Asiatic Society, 1836.) 



Helix anceps. This shell differs from Helix serrula, Benson, in its 

 more depressed spire and natter apex, its less developed sculpture, com- 

 paratively smooth periphery, contabulate whorls, and larger size with 

 the same number of whorls. There is merely a perforation also, in- 

 stead of an umbilicus. It is quite distinct and a good species, though 

 of the same group as H. serrula. 



Helix honesta. This shell is at once distinguished from Nanina 

 vesicula, Benson, by the angularity of the last whorl, a character not so 

 observable in N. vesicula. 



Helix saturnia, Gould. This shell is not contained in Pfeiffer's 



Monograph. The whorls are too few for it to agree with H. chevalieri, 



(Souleyet) and in that particular and in size it agrees better with H. 



oxytes, Benson, which may stray down thus far from the north, as well 



* See Journal of the Asiatic Society, Vol. p. 



