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140 marine Bivalves are enumerated, aecording to tlie systematic 
arrangement of Messrs. Adams, which is known to the author 
only by Chenu^s Manual. The synonymy is neither complete 
nor exact ; Linnean and Lamarckian names are sometimes cited 
as synonyms only because some elder Italian authors, like Olivi, 
could not distinguish the Mediterranean species from the exotic, 
to which the Linnean names belong, or are, at least, now generally 
referred. Thus we find in his list a Voluta caffra (Linn.), Nerita 
canrena (Linn.), Oyprma pediculus (Linn.), Murex fuscatus 
(Gmel.), Turbo terebra (Linn.), Serpula arenaria (Linn.), DeU 
phinula calcar ^ Lam; [as written by the author, who means 
Turbo calcar f Linn. = Trochus calcar j Lam., wliich is a shell of 
the Eastern Seas, and by no means the young of Turbo rugosus 
(Linn.), although some malacologists have used the former name 
for the latter] , Monodonta canaliculataj Lam. [here the author 
is misled by Philippi], Trochus cinerariuSj Lam. [a species be- 
longing to the Germanic province, but its name has been mis- 
applied very frequently bj^ Italian authors to somewhat similar 
Mediterranean species, especially Trochus adriaticus, Phil.]. 
On the other hand, we find in this paper some synonyms taken 
from the manuscript papers of the late Prof. Renier, which are 
little known to conchologists, for example, Mytilus dentatuSj 
^QmQv=^Coralliophaga renieriy Tellina apertUy Renier = 
omma turtoni, 
[It is to be regretted that the author, otherwise tolerably 
well informed in the literature of the shells of the Mediterranean) 
was not acquainted with the very elaborate list of Venetian shells 
published by Georg von Martens some forty years ago in his work 
^Reise nach Venedig,^ 18.24, 8vo, second volume, with a plate re- 
presenting some of the shells; M. Stossich would have found there 
several species and one ^emx^jCcscum— Serpula arcuata (Martens), 
not contained in his list. The fauna of the Adriatic, as shown by 
this list and by other more recent conchological researches in 
Dalmatia, resembles closely that of the Tyrrhenian part of the 
Mediterranean sea, which is known from the works of Philippi, 
Payraudeau, and Risso. The much smaller number of shells 
found on the Venetian side of the Adriatic is dependent, not on 
the geographical distance or the enclosure of this sea, but on the 
nature of the bottom, viz. absence of rocky ground.] 
It 
Weinkauff, H. C. Nouveau supplement h la liste des coquilles 
marines de la cote de PAlgerie. Journ, Conch, xiv. pp. 
227-248. 
2. Red Sea and Indian Ocean, 
Some species of shells collected by Dr. E. SchweinfUrth on 
the shores of the Red Sea are enumerated by the Recorder in 
Verhandl. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1866, p. 381. 
