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MOLLUSCA, 
Sicily. The extramarine shells found on and near Mount Etna are briefly 
enumerated by A. Aradas, Att. Soc. Ital. xii. pp. 533-644. 
Alyei'ia. Letourneux describes several of his malacological excursions 
in Kabylia, Ann. Mai. p. 258. 
Cyprus. Some land-shells mentioned by IIeynemann, Nachr. mal. Gos. ii. 
p. 120. 
3. Africa. 
Eastern Africa. Some shells collected by the botanical traveller, Georg 
Schweinfurth, on the banks of the Bahr-el-ghazal and its confluents about 
7-8|° N. lat., system of the White Nile, are enumerated by the llecorder, 
Mal. 131. xvii. pp. 32-30 j among them is a new Planorhis of a rather American 
aspect. 
Abyssinia. Twenty species of land and 10 of freslnvater 
sliells found during the British expedition (1867-68) in Abys- 
sinia are enumerated by W. T. Blanford in Obs. on Abyss, 
pp. 473-^77, some of them new, but these neither named nor 
sufficiently described. The more remarkable are : — -a Helix allied 
to suhrostrata and pisana, from the limestone tract north of 
Antalo, which is said to occur also in Persia ,* Bulimus olivieri, 
Pfr., the finest and commonest land-shell of Abyssinia ; an Ennea, 
sp. n. ; Pupa ccenopicta, Ilutt., common to the East Indies and 
Senegal ; the European Ancylus jluviatilis, MUll. j the widely 
spread Melania tuberculata (Miill.) : some species are common 
to Natal. The localities and elevations above the sea-level are 
carefully given. Pupa insularis, Ehrenb., and Bulimus labiosus 
(Miill.), var., are mentioned as inhabitants of Aden. 
These results are compared with what was otherwise known 
concerning Abyssinian shells, in a double list containing about 
49 species, by the lieeordcr in Mal. Bl. xvii. pp. 82-86. 
Bourbon. The land-shells of this island are reviewed, from his 
own observations, by G. Nevill, J. A. S. B. xxxix. pp. 404-446. 
lie enumerates 41 species: 17 belonging to Helix or Nanina, 8 to 
Gibbulina or EnneafQ to the operculated land- shells, among which 
4 of Omphalotropis. Several species established by Deshayes 
in Maillard^s ^L^ile Ileunioii'’ are reduced to varieties, and the 
occurrence of others doubted. Emiea bicolor (Ilutt.) and Acha- 
lina panlhera (Fer.) are supposed to have boeii introduced by 
the agency of man. Several species arc common to Mauritius. 
South-western Africa. Several laud-shells from Bamaralaud described 
and figured by II. Adams, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 9, pi. 1. figs. 17, 18, and by L. 
Pfeifier, Mal. 131. xvii. p. 30, and Novitat. Conch, iv. pp. 2, 3, pi. 109. 
4. Asia. 
Samarcand. Four species of shells received from Samarcand are noticed 
by the Recorder (SB. nat. Fr. p. 50), Parmacella, probably olivieri (Cnv.), 
Helicarion^ sp. n.. Helix hrynickii (Andr.), and Corhicula Jluminulis (Miill.) j 
three of them are represented by the same or very similar species also in 
