218 ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Aucapitaine^ H. Note sur V Helix carce, Ann, Sc. Nat. 1865, 
i. p. 30. 
Helix carte (Oantraine), a native of Sardinia, has been found in the southern 
part of Corsica, which had been explored some time previously by Payrau- 
deau and Pequien without finding any trace of it j on the other hand, the 
Corsican species Helix raspailii (Payr.) has been found in Sardinia. The 
author thinks that both have migrated within the most recent time ; hut 
the evidence brought forward appears to us iiisiilliciont to warrant such a 
supposition. 
6. Palceontology of Recent Species. 
M^Coy, F. On the occurrence of Limopsis belcheri, Corbula 
sulcata, and some other reeent shells in the fossil state in 
Miocene Tertiary Beds near Melbourne. Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist. xvi. pp. 113 & 114. 
The species ascertained to he identical with recent ones by actual compa- 
parison of the shells are the following : — Limopsis belcheri (Adams and Reeve), 
dredged from 120 fathoms off the Cape of Good Hope j L. aurita (Sars), also in 
many Miocene localities of Europe, lately dredged from 85 fathoms off Unst 
by Mr. Jelfreysj rectunciilus latioostatus (Quoy & Gaimard), from New Zea- 
land j Corbula sulcata (Lam.), now living on the west coast of Africa. 
Bithinia meneghiana, Limncea lessonce, and Monodacna lessonce are new spe- 
cies, found in a fossil state on the shores of the Caspian Sea and described 
by Issel (Dei molluschi raccolti in Persia ; see p. 224). We think it right to 
mention them here, as there is a most intimate connexion between the fossil 
and living species found on the shores of that sea. 
B. Contributions to Faunas. 
a. Land- and Freshwater Mollusca. 
1. Europe. 
Jeffreys, J. G. British Conch ology. See p. 232. 
Westerlund, C. a. Sveriges Land- och Sdtvatten-Molluskcr. 
[Sweden^s land- and freshwater mollusea.] Lund, 1865, 
8vo, pp. 142. 
The author enumerates 113 speeies, one of whieh is new, 
Planorbis riparius. The most interesting in a geographical 
point of view is Helix harpa (Say), first found in North Ame- 
rica (Maine), which proves now to be a circumpolar species, 
having been discovered successively in Lapland, the Aland 
Islands, Norway, and the province Jemtland in Sweden. The 
Swedish species of Clamsilia are ; laminata, ventricosa, plicatula, 
biplicata, plicata, pumila, nigricans-, the speeies of Vertigo — 
costulata, Nilss., columella^ edentula, minuta = minutissima, anti- 
vertigo, substriata, pygmeea, alpestris, arctica (Wallenberg), 
pusilla, and venetzii=angustior. The species of Pisiclium hitherto 
found and distinguished are: amnicam,pulchellam,subtruncatum 
