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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. - 
J. Zelebor lias given a list of 23 land- and of only 2 fresh- 
water shells inhabiting the island of Cyprus, in Unger nnd 
Kotschy’s work, ^ Die Insel CypenV Wien, 1865, 8vo, p. 591. 
Among them are 17 of Helix and 3 Clausiliaj 1 Melanopsis and 
1 Neritina, 
3. British India, 
Blanford, W. T. Contributions to Indian Malacology, No. VI. 
Descriptions of new land-shells from the Nilgiri and Ana- 
mullay Hills and other places in the Peninsula of India. 
Journ. As. Soc. new ser. No. I3I, pt. ii. no. I, 1866, 
pp. 31-42. 
Eleven new species, most of which were collected by Capt. 
Beddome. Among them is a Spiraculum, a genus not yet found 
in the Cisgangetic peninsula. Seventeen other land-shells and 
two freshwater shells, previously found on the Anamullay hills, 
are merely mentioned. 
. Contributions to Indian Malacology. No. VII. List of 
species of Unio and Anodonta described as occurring in 
India, Ceylon, and Burmah. Ibid. No. 135, pt. ii. no. 2, 
1866, pp. 134-155. 
Eorty-seven species of Unio (29 from India proper, 8 from 
Assam, 2 from Ceylon, and. 8 from Burmah) and 3 of Anodonta 
are enumerated and accompanied with very sound critical re- 
marks. 
Theobald, W. Note on a Collection of Land- and Freshwater 
Shells from the Shan States, collected by F. Fedden. 
Journ. As. Soc. 1865, No. 130, pp. 273-279, with a plate. 
The new species described in this paper will be mentioned 
subsequently ; but some others, named only, without any de- 
scription, are omitted here, as they cannot be regarded as intro- 
duced into science. 
4. Eastern Asia. 
Morelet, a. Description d^especes appartenant a la faune 
malacologique de Flndo-Chine. Journ. Conch, xiv. pp. 62- 
68 . 
• Mabille, J., and Le Mesle, G. Observations sur la faune 
malacologique de la Cochinchine et Camboja. Ibid, 
pp. 1 17-138, with plate 7. 
Pfeiffer, L. Beschreibung neuer Landschnecken von der 
Insel Formosa. [Description of new land-snails from the 
island of Formosa.] Mai. Blatt. xiii. pp. 40-44. 
The same species are described by the same author in 
PrOc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 830, and mentioned in the Becord for 
the preceding year. . 
