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MOLLUSCA. 
Central Asia, including the Altai, Daouria, Afghanistan, Cashmere, Tibet, 
and Yunan, is given, pp. 46-57. An abstract is given by the Recorder 
in SB. nat. Fr, 1874, pp. 43-49. 
5. Tropical and Southern Africa, 
Abyssinia [soo Jickeli, 
Uodrujuez. The land and fresh-water shells of this island, collected 
by A. Desmazures, are enumerated, and the new species described by 
CiiOSSE, J. de Conch, xxii. pp. 221-242 ; they contain 9 Helicidoi, 7 Cyclo- 
stomidce^ 1 Planorbis, 3 Melaniidce, and 4 Neritidce. The general appear- 
ance of the fauna is that of Mauritius, some species being identical ; but 
the genus Helix is very feebly represented. The most remarkable are 
such widely spread Indian species as Stenogyra gracilis (Hutt.), Helix 
siinilaris (Fdr.), and Melania tuherculata (Miill.), all probably intro- 
duced. 
Some notes on South African land shells by E. v. Martens, JB. mal. 
Ges. i. pp. 120-122. 
6. Eastern Asia. 
Parts 4 & 5 of Hanley & Theobald’s “Conchologia Indica” con- 
tain species of the genera VilrinUy Helix (including Nanindy &c.), Bali- 
mus, Acliatina, sub-gen. Electra [Glessula'], Fajja, Ennea, Sjjiraxis, 
Streptaxisy Succinea, Limncea, Planorbis, AncyluSy Lithotisy CamptonyXy 
Cyathopoma, Alycccus, Lithoglyphus, Paludinay and Melanidy pis. Ixxxi.-c. 
The species not hitherto figured will be mentioned infra. 
New species of Plectopylis and AlycamSy with notes on the localities of 
some known species by Godwin-Austen, P. Z. S. 1874, pp. G08-G13, 
pis. Ixxiii. & Ixxiv. and J. A. S. B. (n. s.) xliii. pt. 2, pp. 145-150. 
A few notes on fresh- water shells found in the salt lakes of Tibet y 
most of them dead, are contained in H. Sciilagintweit’s “ Reisen in 
Hochasien,” ii. (1872) pp. 209-218, and recapitulated by the Recorder in 
Zool. Gart. xv. p. 71. 
Several remarkable Unionidoi found near NanldUy described by R. P. 
Heude, j. de Conch, xxii. pp. 112-118. 
7. Australia and Polynesia. 
The fifth catalogue of the Museum Godeffroy, Hamburgh, Feb. 1874, 
2215 pp. 8 pis., although merely a list of objects for sale, contains valuable 
information on land and fresh-water shells collected on the islands of the 
Pacific and in Australia; pp. 88-103, 109, 110, & 143, and in the 
introduction. 
Australia and New Zealand. A number of land and fresh- water shells 
figured, and several described as new by Edgar Smith in “ The Zoology of 
the Yoyago of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror,” Mollusca, pp. 1-3, pis. i. & iv. 
Those species not previously figured will be noticed infra. 
Some new terrestrial species of North-East Australia are described by 
J. Brazier, P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 668-670, pi. Ixxxiii. 
