GASTROPODA (pEOTINIBRANCHIA). 
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Gerithiopsidji* 
Cerithiopsis croccct (Angas) var. n. athinsoni; J. 1E. Tenison Woods, 
P. R. Soc. Tasm. 1875 (sep. copy), p. 7, Tasmania. 
CYPR-EIDiB. 
Cyprcea nigricans^ sp. n., P. Montrouzier, J. de Gonch. xxiii. p. 220, 
pi. viii. fig. 6, and pi. ix. jSg. 3, New Caledonia; near C. mappa (L.), but 
nearly black and rostrated at the extremities, like many other New 
Caledonian species. , , 
Pediculariid^. 
Pedicularia (Swains.), three species in Reeve’s Conchologia Icon., part 
323, one plate. 
■ , Naticid^. 
Natica gaidei (Souverbie) = lineozona (Jousseaume), which last has 
priority of a few weeks, operculum calcareous ; Souverbie, J. de Conch, 
xxiii. p. 292, pi. xiii. fig. 8. 
Natica tasmanica and nana, spp. nn , J. E. Tenison Woods, P. R. Soc. 
Tasm. 1875 (sep. copy), pp. 16 & 17, Tasmania. 
Ruma glohosa^ sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 17, Tasmania. 
Naticina (Gray, nec Guilding). Operculum with a peculiar appen- 
dage, the same as that in Sigaretus Iccvigatus (Lam.) ; P. Fischer, J. de 
Gonch. xxiii. p. 215 [c/. Zool. Rec. xi. p. 141]. 
ffaliotinella, g. n. ; “ testa umbilicata, auriformi, epidermate tenui, 
perdepressa ; spira postica, brevissima, anfractibus paucis, ultimo amplis 
simo, apertura perampla, marginibus disjunctis* sinistro infiexo, ad inser- 
tionem columellaren. reflexo.” Animal unknown ; provisionally placed 
near Sigaretus. Type, H. montrouzieri, sp. n.. New Caledonia, Souverbie, 
J. de Conch, xxiii. p. 33, pi. iv. fig. 1. 
VELUTiNIDiE. 
Vanihoro (Q. & G.) ; 24 species in Reeve’s Conchologia Icon., part 322, 
described and figured on 3 plates, 
MARSENIIDiE. 
The development of Lamellaria \_Marsenia'\ perspicua (L.) is the object 
of a paper by A. Giard, C. R. Ixxx. p. 736 ; translated in Ann. N. H. (4) 
xvi. pp. 119-122; abstract in J. de Conch, xxiii. pp. 344-346. The 
eggs are situated in a nest hollowed out in the colonies of compound 
Ascidians, such as Leptoclinum maculosum and Polyclinum succineum. and 
are accompanied by rudimentary eggs, which at a later period are 
devoured by the young embryo. The plastic spherules of the yelk 
invade and cover up the nutritive part, and form the ectoderm, the 
