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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Ital. Sci. Nat. xi. p. 660, with a woodcut, Buenos Ayres. — V. plebejus, sp. n., P. 
Fischer, Journ. Conch, xvi. p. 145, New Caledonia. 
Agnatiia (Testacellea and Glandinea). 
Testacella maugei (F4r.). Lingual dentition by Hogg, Transact. Roy. Mi- 
croscop. Soc. xvi. pi. 13. fig. 82, A median tooth is represented, but somewhat 
indistinct. 
TestaceUa heccarii, sp. n., Issel, Bullett. Malacol. Ital. p. 71, pi. 6. figs. 1-4, 
and T. pecchiolii (Bourguignat, 1861), ibid. pi. 6. fig. 6, Tuscany. 
Strebelia. This name is proposed by H. Crosse and P. Fischer for Phgsella, 
which is preoccupied. It is a genus of land-shells described by Dr. Pfeifler, 
Mai. Bliitt. 1851, from Mexico. Journ. Conch, xvi. p. 90. 
Qlandina alyira (Brug.). The lingual teeth described by Crosse & Fischer, 
Journ. Conch, xvi. p. 234, translated in Bullett. Malacol. Ital. i. p. 64. A 
median tooth is present j in Daudebardia sicula (Benoit) it could not be found j 
in both the points of the lateral teeth are simple, in Testacella provided with 
a little hook on the outer side. 
Glandina truncata (Gmel.). Lingual dentition by Hogg^ I, c. pi. 13. fig. 81 ; 
a median tooth is represented. 
Glandina perlucens^ sp. n., Guppy, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. i. p. 430, Do- 
minica. — G. mimUmima, sp‘. n., Guppy, Proceed. Scientif. Assoc. 'I'riuidad, 
1868, p. 239, Trinidad. 
Spiraxis tenuis^ sp. n., Pfeiffer, Mai. Bliitt. xv. p. 84, Mexico. — >S'. simplex, 
sp. n.. Guppy, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. i. p. 438, and Proceed. Scientif. Assoc. 
Trinidad, 1868, p. 238, Trinidad. 
Streptaxis apertus, sp. n., with two varieties, subglobosus and depressus, inland 
region of Rio Grande do Sul, Martens, Mai. Bliitt. xv. p. 180. Jaw none, 
lingual teeth slender, acuminate, without hooks, as in the other Testacellea or 
Agnatha : Heynemann, ibid. p. 101, pi. 4. fig. 2. Several species described as 
Helix by d’Orbigny are believed to belong to this genua by Martens, 1. c. 
p. 182. — Str. ivelwitschi and Str. turbinatus, spp. nn., and Str. troberti (Petit), 
Morelet, Moll. terr. et fluv. Voy. Welwitsch, pp. 57, 68, pi. 1. figs. 7, 6, 8, An- 
gola, on very moist spots, near the banks of rivers and lakes ; the two new 
species without teeth in the aperture, the second with subregular w'horls. 
The colours of a living Streptaxis soxdeyetiana (Petit) are described by 
Nevill, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 260. Those of the American species are 
generally of vivid red or yellow, Martens, Mai. Bliitt. xv. p. 182. 
Ennea pvpceformis, ringicida, and vitrea, spp. nn.,ln stony woods of Angola, 
the two first with toothed aperture, the last without teeth. Morelet, Moll, 
terr. et fluv. Voy. Welwitsch, pp. 82-84, pi. 2. figs. 6, 5, & 3. 
Ennea {Elma) nevilli, sp. n., II. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 291, 
pi. 28. fig. 12, Seychelle Islands. 
Ennea {Gvdella) clavulata (Lam.). Animal yellowish, with orange. Nevill, 
/. c. p. 260. 
Gibbidina. The colours of living animals are described by Nevill, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 268. 
Gibbulina. Mr. II. Adams (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868) describes the following 
new species : — Gibbus (^Gibbulina') mondraini, barclayi, and clavidus, from 
Mauritius, pp, 13 & 16, pi. 4. figs. 5, 6, 7, & 13 j G. (G.) deshuyesi and cylin- 
