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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
New species from Polynesia ; — 
Helix kanakina, Gassies, Journ. Conch, xiv. p. 49, New Caledonia. — H hi- 
dalgoiana, cailleti, and mahillei, Crosse, ibid. p. 60, pi. 1. figs. 2, 6, & 6. — H, 
oualanensisy venosus [-a], and frivola^ Pease, Am. Journ. Conch, ii. pp. 289, 290, 
pi. 21. figs. 1, 2, 3. 
New species from Australia : — 
Helix greenhilliy urarensis, nautiloidea, aridorum, splendescens,Jiosculus, Cox, 
Journ. Conch, xiv. pp. 45-48. — H porterij conseendens,fenestrata, cortieicolaf 
Cox, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, pp. 373, 374, Upper Richmond River. 
African 'species : — 
Helix lienardiana, sp. n., Crosse, Journ. Conch, xiv. p. 53, pi. 1. fig. 1, 
Mauritius. With three varieties. 
Helix {Pella) darnaudi (Pfr.) and rivularis (Krauss) described from Abys- 
sinian specimens by Martens, Mai. Blatt. xiii. pp. 92, 93 j the former figured, 
pi. 3. figs. 1-4. 
Helix wchvitschi, sp. n., Morelet, Journ. Conch, xiv. p. 163, Equatorial 
Africa. 
Helix monrovia (Rang) is the young of Streptaxis nobilis, Martens, Mai. 
Bliitt. xiii. p. 104, as formerly supposed by Dr. Pfeifter, and confirmed by 
Dohrn, 1. c. pp. 136, 137. 
Helix pittce^ gomesiana, latina, and harhozce, sp. n., Paiva, Journ. Conch, 
xiv. pp. 340-342, pi. 11. figs. 6-8, from the small islands near Madeira and 
Porto Santo. — H. luscana and alleniana, sp. n., Paiva, 1. c. figs. 9, 10, Madeira. 
— H. leonina (Lowe), Salvage Islands, near Madeira; H, planorbella (Lam.) 
and H. quadriciticta (Morelet), Canary Islands ; figured in Pfeitfer’s Novitat. 
Conchol. pi. 72. figs. 6, 7, 8-12, and 13-16. 
West-Indian species: — 
Helix subtussidcata (Wright), parallela (Poey), broccheri (Gutierrez), ver- 
sicolor (Born), schwartziana and arctistria (Pfr.), wrighti (Gundlach), all from 
Cuba, figured in Pfeiffer’s Novitat. pis. 61 and 67. — ^Varieties of H. picta 
(Born) and H. alauda (Fer.), Cuba, described by Pfeiffer, Mai. Blatt. xiii. pp. 
66, 57 ; the former figured in Novitat. pi. 72. — H. nigropicta, sauvallei, and 
luzij sp. n., Pfr. Mai. Blatt. xiii. pp. 67, 68, Cuba. — H. gaussoini, sp. n., Tryon, 
Am. Journ. Conch, ii. p. 304, pi. 20. fig. 11, guano island of Navassa, allied to 
II . melanocephala. — H effusa^ virescens^ smithiantty and platonisy sp. n., Haiti, 
Pfeiffer, Mai. Bliitt. xiii. pp. 77-80. — H. macroglossa, sp. n., Pfeiffer, ibid. p. 
81, Bahama Islands, allied to H. indistincta, F6r. — H. incisa, sp. n., Pfeiffer, 
ibid. p. 78, Barbadoes. 
Species from Central America and Tropical Mexico : — 
Helix bridgesiy sp. n., Tryon, Am. Journ. Conch, ii. p. 303, pi. 20. figs. 9, 10, 
Nicaragua, allied to Pfr. (group Poly gyro). — H. selenkaiy amplay 
impuray wilhelmiy obsita, hermanniy sp. n., Pfeiffer, Mai. Blatt. xiii. pp. 77-80, 
Mirador, near Vera Cruz. 
Species from North America: — 
[Group Polygyra) Helix jacksoniy Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, and H. 
febigeriy New Orleans, sp. n.. Bland, Am. Journ. Conch, ii. pp. 371, 373, pi. 
21. figs. 8 & 10. 
. [Group Mesodoti] Helix thyroideSy var. rufa=H. rufa (De Kay), and pro- 
bably also= jy. buccidenta (Gould), in Pennsylvania, E. Michener, Am. Journ. 
