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OvuLiD^ (Amphiperasidai:). 
Gill insists that the nearest relations of this family are with 
Pedicularitty and proposes to restore for them both the suborder 
Digitoglossa, originally proposed by J. E. Gray. Am. Journ. 
Conch, vi. pp. 182-187. There is nothing essentially new in 
this paper. 
Cerithiidas. 
Cerithium hrongniartiiy Marav., = Calcara; the first has one 
month’s priority. Benoit and Aradas, Att. Soc. Ital. xii, p. 602. 
Cerithium metula, Lov(5n, the first whorls longitudinally ribbed^ and want- 
ing the granulate spiral girdles. Sars, Bidr. Christ, faun. p. 69. 
Cerithium trilineatumy Phil. The embryonic whorls are peculiarly formed ; 
it does not belong to Cerithiopsis. C. metaxa (Chiaje) is not crosseanuniy 
Tiberi, but a variety of scahrum (Olivi). 'Weinkauli’, Bull. mal. Ital. iii. 
p. 88. 
Triforis henoitiana, sp. n., AradaS; Atti Soc. Ital. xii. pp. 649, 660, and 
Bull. mal. Ital. iii. p. 687, Aci Trezza in Sicily. WeinkaulF thinks that it is 
only a variety of scahrum (Olivi), 1. c. p. 88. 
T'riphoris [Triforis] similis, minimus^ pallidus, sulcosus, gracilis, p> 0 'fcctu 8 , 
orym, pustulosus and annulatus, from Kauai, Sandwich Islands ; punctatus 
and costatus, Amina ; Makainio ; cijUndricus and Apaiang; 
granosus, Tahiti, spp. nn.. Pease, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 774-777. 
MeLANIIDvE. 
Brot enumerates 332 recent species of Melania, 14 of Do7yssa, 10 of Vibex, 
16 of Pirena, 32 of Heinisinus, 3 of Clea, 4 of Canidia, 44 of Mclanopsis, 
and 32 of Pahidonms. He persists in uniting under the name Ilcmisinus 
very unlike species from different parts of the world, taking the European 
esperi, F4r., away from its nearest ally Mela^iopsis acicularis. Per. Am. J. 
Conch, iv. App. pp. 271-325. 
Paludo77vus 7'eticidata, sp. n., Blanford, J. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 9, pi. 3. fig 1, 
Cachar, India. 
Melania potarnohia, .sp. n., Bourguignat, Ann. Mal. p. 44, mouth of theDanube. 
[Melania] Melanoides swinhoei, sp. n., H. Adams, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 8, pi. 1. 
f. 12, Hainan. 
[Melania] Mclaniella hrevietda, sp. n., II. Adams, 1. c. p. 379, pi. 27. fig. 12, 
Amoy, China. 
Melania plicatilis, sp. n., ovalana, new name for perpinguis (Gould, nec 
Hinds, nec Reeve), with 2 new varietie.s, suhexusta, sp. n., with 2 new 
varieties, and turi'itelloides, sp. n., with remarks on some other species. 
Mousson, J. de Conch, xviii. pp. 203-216, Fiji Islands. 
Melanin kauiensis and contigun, spp. nn.. Pease, Am. J. Conch, vi. p. 7 (the 
first figured pi. 3. fig. 6), Sandwich Islands. 
Pachychilus jmisoiji, sp. n., II. Adams, 1. c. p. 796, Nicarogua. 
Melanopsis curta, zonites, 7'ohusta,fusca, fusiformis, and souverhiana, spp. nn., 
Gassics, J. de Conch, xviii. pp. 146-148, New Caledonia. 
Mcla7iopsis dufourei (F^r.), its occurrence in Tuscany, where it has been 
observed for about ten years, confirmed by F. L. Appeliiis, Nachr. mal. Ges. 
pp. 44-46. 
