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7. Tropical Pacific. 
Important contributions to tlio knowledge of the Polynesian fauna 
are to be found in the lists of Mollusca offered for sale in the 5th Cata- 
logue of the Museum Godeffroy, Hamburgh, pp. 87 & 103-181. 
New Caledonia*. New sea shells by Souverbie & Montrouzier ; 
J. de Conch, xxii. pp. 187-201, pi. vii. : and Lambert, tom. cit. p. 374. 
New Polynesian sea shells by Garrett, P. Ac. Philad. 1873, pp. 209 
& 233, pis. ii.-iv. ; and by A. Baird in J. L. Brenchley’s “ Jottings 
during the Cruise of H.M.S. Cura9ao among the South Sea Islands in 
18G5’' (London: 1873, 8vo), pp. 432-454, pis. xxxvi.-xlii. 
8 . Northern Pacific. 
C. E. Lischke has published a third part or second supplement to his 
very valuable work on the sea shells of Japan \cf. Zool. Rec. vi. p. 529, 
and viii. p. 129], chiefly from materials coming from the Bay of Yeddo, 
containing remarkable additions to, and some modifications of, the 
hitherto known conchological fauna ; Buccinum leucostoma^ sp. n., may 
be named as most interesting. In the introduction, the species hitherto 
only known from Japan, and the species common with other geographical 
provinces, are enumerated in separate lists ; with the result that, out of 
413 species discussed in the whole work, somewhat more than one-third 
are (hitherto) only known from Japan, about three-sevenths also from 
China and the Philippines, and somewhat more than two-fifths from 
other parts of the Indo-Pacific province. 
Jeffreys gives a list of 37 European sea shells found in the Sea of 
Japan, not only arctic, but peculiar to the teniperate zones : J. L. S. xii. 
pp. 100-109. 
Tapparone-Canefri enumerates shells collected, at Woosung, China, 
and in Japan ; Malac. viagg. Magenta, pp. 154 & 155. 
W.H. Dale gives a list of 115 species of true Mollusks from Behring’s 
Strait and the adjacent portions of the Arctic Ocean ; P. Cal. Ac., Feb. 
1874, 7 pp. 
R. E. C. Stearns enumerates some sea shells collected at San Juanico 
and Loreto, Lower California, by W. M. Gabb ; P. Cal. Ac. v. pp. 131 
& 132. 
9. Goast of Peru and Ghili. 
A number of shells collected on the coasts of Peru and Chili, during the 
expedition of the Italian frigate Magenta, are enumerated by Tapparone- 
Canefri ; 1 . G . p. 157. 
PALylSONTOLOGY OP RECENT SPECIES. 
a. Land and Fresh-water Mollusca. 
Some shells found in Swedish peat-moors and Danish limestone-tufa 
are enumerated by C. Westerlund, Mai. Bl. xxiv. pp. 51-54, including 
Helix ruderata (Stud.), which now prevails in the more northern parts 
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