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MOLLUSCA. 
The sea-shells of the coast of Granville are enumerated. G. Servain, 
Ann. Mai. pp. 77-104. 
Jordan’s Catalogue of British Mollusca is a simple list of names, indi- 
cating the varieties, compiled from Jeffreys’s ‘British Conchology,’ and printed 
on one side only for labels. 
2 . Mediterranean Sea. 
H. 0. Weinkauff has published supplementary notes to his general work 
on the shells of the Mediterranean (see Zool, Bee. iv. pp. 448 & 514). Several 
species are added, others which had been regarded doubtful are identified 
with well-known ones, and some names changed on account of priority. 
Bull. nial. Ital. iii. pp. 14-24, 33-37, 74-100, 128-139. 
The drawings of Adriatic Mollusca (1272 figures, including some Anne- 
lids, Cirripeds, and numerous land and freshwater shells) left by Stefano 
Cheereghini, who died at Chioggia near Venice in 1820, at the Lyceum S. 
Catarina in Venice, have been determined by S. Brusinaj and a rather 
verbose account of them is published by the latter in 280 pages, repeating 
all the manuscript names which have been never published before (for ex- 
ample, 'Turbo rnaritimus for Chemnitzia scalaris,V\n\.). It is astonishing to 
see the number of species (249) known to him ; and some interest may be 
found also in the accompanying notes of tlic MSS., which state the localities, 
and have boon printed word for word by the editor. The species which 
have not before been ascertained to live in the Adriatic are enumerated 
(pp. 34-38) ; two only have been hitherto observed on the western and not 
on the eastern side, they are Corhulomya mediten'anea (Costa) and Litorina 
saxatilis (Olivi, not Johnst.). 
The muddy grounds at Sinigaglia have been explored with an improved 
dredge by A. Manzoni j these are very poor in mollusks, being devoid of 
vegetation; Turritella^ Chenopiis [^Aporrhais'], Philine, Akera, Dentaliumy 
Natica guilleminiy PoriSy 'TethySy Sepuiy and Loligo are the only genera which 
have been found, most of them very numerous. The author insists that all 
must feed on animal matter. Bull. mal. Ital. iii. pp. II-I4. 
The marine mollusks found at Cape Pinede, near MarseilleSj are enumerated 
by F. Ancey, Ann. Mal. pp. 244-257. 
The recent marine shells found at and near Catania are enumerated by A. 
Aradas, Att. Soc. Ital. iii. pp. 633-544. The short littoral tract between 
Catania and Biposto, and chiefly that of Aci-Trezza, is extraordinarily rich 
in sea-shells, some of them very rare, or not found hitherto elsewhere (for 
example, Panopcea glycymeris) ; the sandy shore next Catania, on the con- 
trary, is rather poor. — The Sicilian species described in 1840 and 1841 as 
new by Prof. C. MaravigTia, and always regarded as more or less doubtful, 
have been examined by L. Benoit and A. Aradas from original specimens, 
and identified, except one, with well-known ones. Att. Soc. Ital. iii. 1869, 
and Bull. mal. Ital. iii. p. 56. 
A large number of shells dredged in the Mediterranean by Captains Spratt 
and Nares, in various depths, some of 100 fathoms and more, are enumerated 
by Jeffreys, Ann. N. H. (4) vi. pp. 65-86. Besides several new species, they 
contain others known hitherto only in a fossil state — for example, Verticordia 
gramdatay Astarte parvUy &c. 
