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MOLLUSGA. 
V. pp. 15 & 101 ; vi. pp. 439 & 440; vii. pp. 8, 9, 39, 43, 46, 132, 135, 409, 
412, & 503. Verrill states (pp. 134 & 135) that Quahog Bay in Maine, 
produces Venus mercenaria (L.), and quite a number of other southern 
species, which have the same remarkable distribution, being absent along 
the rest of the northern shore of New England and re-appearing in the 
Gulf of 8t. Lawrence. 
Now marine shells from the West Coast of Florida by Stearns ; 
P. Ac. Philad. 1873, pp. 301 & 344. 
4 . Southern Atlantia. 
Some marine shells, from Southern discussed by W. Kobelt, 
Nachr. mal. Ges. 1874, pp. 57-59. 
Some sea shells, from the Magellan Straits and Patagonia^ ouumoratod 
by TArPARONE-CANEERi, Malac. viagg. Magenta, pp. 157. 
Collections of South African sea shells made by Dr. G. Fritsch and 
others have been examined by E. v. Martens, who gives fi*om them 
some additions and corrections to Prof. Krauss’ well-known work on the 
South African Mollusca^ comparing the fauna of the individual localities, 
among which the south-western, from Saldanha Bay to Cape Agulhas, 
are chiefly distinguished by large species of Patella and several small 
rose-coloured Trochi ; in Port Natal, the fauna of the Indian Sea begins. 
Australia agrees with Southern Africa in many genera, but the species 
supposed to be common to both fauna are either members of the Indian 
fauna, only touching the borders of South Africa and Australia, or 
wrongly attributed to one of the two territories. JB. mal. Ges. i. 
pp. 119-146. 
5 . Indian Ocean. 
New sea shells by G. & H. Nevill, J. A. S. B. (n.s.) xliii. pt. 2, pp. 21- 
30, pi. i. ; Li^nard, J. de Conch, xxii. pp. 70 ; Crosse, tom. cit. pp. 74 
& 75. 
Persian Gulf. The known shells, chiefly from the collection of Prof. 
Hausknecht, are enumerated by E. v. Martens, Vorderasiat. Conchy- 
lien, pp. 91-106 & 127. They agree, for the most part, with those of 
the Indian Sea, and still more with those of the Bed Sea ; a few are 
peculiar, and some new. 
A number of shells collected at Singapore, Java, and Hongkong are 
enumerated by Tapbarone-Canefri ; Malac. viagg. Magenta, pp. 155 
& 154. 
6 . Seas of Australia. 
Many marine shells from Australia, with exact localities, enumerated 
in the Mth Catalogue of the Museum GodefOroy, Hamburgh, pp. 104-164. 
Numerous sea shells from New Zealand, partly not yet figured, are 
represented by Edgar Smith ; Moll. Voy.Ereb.& Terr., pp. 3-7, pis. i.-iii., 
several from types long ago described by Gray. A few observations 
on the resemblance of the fauna of New Zealand to those of Southern 
Africa, Southern America, and the Pacific generally, by the Recorder ; 
SB. nat. Fr. 1874, pp. 5 & 6. 
