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Mabille, J. Etudes sur la-famie malacologique de Saint- Jcaii- 
de-Luz, de Dinan et de quelques autres points du littoral 
oceanien de la France. Journ. Conch, xiii, pp. 248-265. 
Fifty-three species are mentioned^ with exact indication of the 
localities. The most interesting are: Zonites olivetorum (Gm.), 
at Bayonne; Z, alliarius (Miller), only on the ^ea- coast of 
France from Bayonne to Boulogne-sur-Mer; Helix megerlei 
(Jan)=//. solaria (Mhlfld.), at St.-Jean-de-Luz, not found be- 
fore in France; and a new species of Clausilia. 
Brebisson, R. de. Liste des mollusques terrestres recueillis eii 
Dauphine, Savoie et Provence. Bull. Soc. Linn, de Nor- 
mandie, ix. Annees 1863 & 1864 (published 1865), pp. 122- 
124. 
A list of thirty-four species, in which the most common 
are purposely omitted. One is, at first sight, struck to find 
some species characteristic of the warmest parts of Europe 
{Zonites candidissimus and algirus) side by side with others 
more peculiar to the northern half of Europe {Helix arbustorum, 
Bulimus montanus) ; hut this is explained by the fact that the 
first are found in the low countries near the sea, the others 
within the Alps. 
ScHRocKiNGER, J. VON Nordenberg. Oesterreichs gehause- 
tragende Bauchfiisser und Muschelthiere. Verb, zool.-bot. 
Ges. Wien, 1865, pp. 303-324. 
[The shell-bearing Gastropods and Bivalves of Austria.] 
A list of 410 land-, 172 freshwater, and 380 marine shells. It 
includes 165 species of Clausilia, 10 of Valvata, 22 of Neriiina, 
and 27 of Hydrobia, which are very artificially distributed into 
three families. Sixty-six land- and 43 freshwater shells are 
considered to be common throughout the greater portion of the 
provinces of the Austrian empire. The Brachiopods and the 
shelless mollusks are omitted, although (as far back as 1777) 
Fortis mentions a Terebratula in his travels in Dalmatia. 
PiRONA, A. Prospetto dei molluschi terrestri e fluviatili finora 
raccolti nel Friuli. Att. Istit. V enet. di sc. lett. ed art. x. 
1865, pp. 676-708. 
Ninety-six species of land-snails, thirty-nine of frCvshwater 
shells, and one of hrackishwater, viz. Auricula myosotis. The 
rather large number of land-shells in this province is due to 
the circumstance that it contains both alpine districts and a 
sea-shore, so that the species living on the Mediterranean sea- 
shores (as Helix pisana, variabilis, Bulimus acutus, decollatus) are 
included. Helix vermiculata is wanting [as it is in the whole of 
Venetia, except the botanical garden of Padua, as far as the Re- 
corder knows] . On the other hand, we find a rather consider- 
