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MOLLUSCA. 
in the Altai, on the borders of Chinese Dzungaria, some new species of land- 
shells make their appearance, e. g. Helix bicallosa (Friw.) and a new Succinea. 
SB. Nat. Fr. 1871, pp. 46-60. 
Samarcand. The 4 spp. mentioned in Zool. Rec. vii. p. 124, are described 
and figured by the Recorder in Mai. Bl. xviii. pp. 61-68, pi. 1. 
IVanscaueasia. Some spp. nn., including a CycloiuSy are described by 
Pfeiffer, ibid. pp. 69, 70. 
Palestine. 21 spp. of land and freshwater shells found by Kiepert, chiefly 
near and beyond the Jordan, are enumerated and partly described, with some 
critical remarks, by the Recorder, ibid. pp. 63-61, pi. 1. 
4. Southern Asia. 
Thibet. Shells collected by David in Moupin, E. Thibet (18 of which are 
regarded as new), are described by Deshayes in N. Arch. Mus. 
Province of Tenasserim. Stoliczka has published a very interesting account 
of the terrestrial Mollusca of the environs of Moulmein, describing many spp. 
nn., and elucidating the synonymy and systematic position of others in 
various essential points, especially by his anatomical researches. It contains 
4 CyclophoridcBy 3 Pupinidcey 3 DiplommatinidcSy 2 Helidnidce (^Georissa) y 
8 StreptaxidcBy 2 PupidcCy 1 Clausiliay 4 Helicidce (^Plectopylis and Tt'achia)y 
and 12 ZonitidcBy among which are 4 of the peculiar genus Sophina. J. A. 
S. B. xl. pp. 143-177 and 217-259. 
Ceylon. 179 spp. of land-shells (118 Helicidce and QlOpercidata') are enu- 
merated in Nevill’s Enumeratio Heliceorum et Pneumonopomorum.” 
5. Polynesia. 
627 spp. of Polynesian land-shells (120 Opei'culatay 26 AuriculidcBy and 482 
HelicidcBy including 223 spp. of Achatinelld) are enumerated by Pease, P. Z. S. 
1871, pp. 471-477, and the habitats of several of them, hitherto imknown or 
wrongly given, ascertained or corrected. 
The Faune conchyliologique terrestre et fluvio-lacustre de la 
Nouvelle Caledonie,’^ of Gassies, in Act. Soc. L. Bord. xxviii., is 
a new and much augmented edition of the author^s former pub- 
lication (1863). It now contains 302 spp., viz. 4 slugs, 116 in- 
operculated and 19 operculated land-shells, 57 submarine shells 
{AuriculidcBy Truncatella, and the so-called Hydrocend)y 1 Am- 
pullariay 16 LimnceidrB, 34 MelaniidcBy 49 NeritidcBy and 4 Cyre- 
nidcB y among them, the numerous spp. of BulimuSy group Pla- 
costyluSy the presence of Melanopsis (20 spp.), the absence of 
Limnceay while Physa is represented by 9 spp., the number of 
NeritincB and AuriculidcBy &c. are remarkable points. All spp. 
not mentioned in the former edition are provided with a Latin 
diagnosis and French description ; but, as most of them have 
been published in the last volumes of J. de Conch., few (entirely 
new) will be mentioned in the special part of this Record. 
Tonga Islands. The land and freshwater shells are treated, from the col- 
lections of Graffe, by Mousson, who enumerates 19 Helicidcey 6 Helicinidcey 
13 spp. of Omphalotrcypisy (so-called) Hydrocenay and Truncatellay 2 of Physa 
(the only genus of Limnceidce represented), 6 AuriculidcBy and 6 of Melania ; 
