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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Berthelot) = (KUster), str ictus (Morelet), caliculatus, gibhosus, ray- 
mondif platylenuSf hrondeli, epipedus, and pevaudicri. 
Further may he mentioned as Algerian our common Bithynia tmtaculata 
(L.) and the Indo- African Melania tuherculata (Miill.). 
The numerous species oiFerussacia [ Cionella\ Ccecilianella^Planorhis, Physa, 
and Valvatay and some others, being either new or doubtful, will be mentioned 
hereafter in the special part of our Record. 
Bourguignat, J. R. Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles re- 
cueillis par M. H. Duveyrier dans le Sahara. Paris, 1864, 
gr. 4to, with 6 plates, forming part of the Supplement to 
the work of M. Duveyrier entitled ^^Les Touaregs du 
Nord.^^ 
Most of the species observed in the Sahara and in the 
southern part of the vice-royalty of Tunis are nearly allied to 
forms of the Mediterranean fauna. The number of species and 
specimens is not large j some of them have been found in a sub- 
fossil state only. The traveller has been more and more im- 
pressed, during his progress into this desert, with the probability 
of the supposition that, at a period not very remote from ours, 
it was covered by the ocean. 
Bourguignat, J. R. Mollusques nouveaux, litigieux ou peu 
connus. Quatrieme fascicule, imprime h 100 exemplaires. 
Paris, Mars 1864, 8vo, with 7 plates. 
Contains descriptions and good figures of Helix ehrenbergi 
var.. Helix spiriplana (Olivier) and of some species nearly allied 
to it, and finally some species of Ferussacia with a complete 
list of the species of this genus as understood by the author. 
Most of the new species are from Syria. 
3. Central Asia, 
Martens, E. von. Drei central asiatische Schnecken [col- 
lected by the Russian traveller Semenow]. Pfr. Mai. 
Blatt. pp. 114-119. 
Archer, S. Detter to Mr. Woodward, dated from Rawal 
Pindee in the Himalayas. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 69. 
Vitrina fleminyi, Bulimus sp. [probably buliminus, allied to 
siamensis'\i Limncea stagnalis , and Cyrena sp. occur at an eleva- 
tion of about 6000 feet. 
4. China and Japan. 
Crosse, H., et Debeaux. Description d^especes nouvelles de 
Shanghai et du nord de la Chine. Journ, Conch. 1864, 
pp, 316-320, 
