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MOLLUSCA. 
R. Bergh continues to describe the Opisthohranchiata observed and 
collected by Prof. Semper in the Philippine Isles ; in Semper’s Reis. 
Arch. Phil. ii. [sw^rd, p. 134]. 
Kerguelen's Island. Twelve new species of shells, collected by the 
Rev. A. E. Eaton, are described by Edgar Smith, Ann. N. H. (4) xvi. 
pp. 67-73. Some notes on its malacological fauna by the Recorder, 
SB. nat. Fr. 1876, pp. 65 & 66. 
6. Seas of Australia and Polynesia. 
Interesting notes on the occurrence of several Mollusca are contained 
in the 3rd letter of the la'te R. von Willemoes-Suhm, written during the 
expedition of the ‘ Challenger,’ and published in Z. wiss. Zool. xxv. (with 
Heft 2) pp. xxv.-xlvi. Area pectunculoides (Scacchi) and Limopsis 
borealis (Sars) common in the deep sea of the Pacific ; p. xxxv. pelagic 
Mollusca of the surface. 
Tasmania. A number of new species of marine shells described by 
J. E. Tenison Wood, P. R. Soc. Tasm. November, 1875 [the Recorder 
has seen only a separate copy, paged 1-30]. 
New sea-shells from New Caledonia^ by S. M. Souverbie & P. Mon- 
TROUZIER, J. de Conch, xxiii. pp. 33-44, pi. iv., p. 220, pis. viii. & ix., 
pp. 282-297, pi. xiii. ; by H. Crosse, tom. cit. p. 139. 45 species of Tro- 
chidee from the same archipelago enumerated by P. Fischer, tom. cit. 
pp. 44-51. A list of New Caledonian Nudihranchia by H. Crosse, tom. 
cit. pp. 305-328, pi. xii. 
7. Northern Pacific. 
98 species of marine shells (some new) collected in the Japanese Seas 
by Commander H. C. St. John, are enumerated, with descriptive notes 
on several, by Edgar Smith, Ann. N. H. (4) xv. pp. 414-437. 
Stearns’ comparison of the sea-shells of Eastern and Western North 
America [Zool. Rec. x. p. 140], reprinted in Q. J. Conch, i. pp. 31 & 32. 
8. West Coast of South America. 
The well-known fact, that a remarkable number of shells from the 
West Coast of America, belonging to very different systematic families, 
have a deep black colour, is discussed by P. Fischer, J. de Conch, xxiii. 
pp. 105-112. 
Paljjontology op recent species. 
Shells of recent marine species of the Ba,ltic, e.g., Cardium edule (L.), 
Nassa reticulata Cyprina islandica (L.), Mactra solida (L.), and 
Tellina solidula (Lam.), found, but very scarcely, in the diluvial strata 
in Eastern Prussia, between Thorn and Insterburg ; also species at 
present foreign to the Baltic, as Ostrea edulis (L.), in the same spot, 
Scalaria communis (Lam.), and Cardium echinatum (L.), in Western 
Prussia, near Mewe. Berendt, Z. geol. Ges. 1874, pp. 517-621, pi. x. 
