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ferences between these divisions, especially if Middle Egypt, 
Upper Egypt, and Nubia are combined into one : characteristic 
of these parts is Helix desertorum (Forsk.); of the wooded regions 
the group Limicolaria, which is regarded as a part of the truly 
African genus Achatina. As regards the freshwater shells, the 
true African form of Lanistes and the tropical Ampullaria and 
Melania are common along the whole course of the river from 
Lake Victoria to Alexandria, having been carried down by the 
current. 
Some additions to this paper, containing descriptions of new 
Abyssinian species, are in preparation, and will be published in 
the following volume of the Mai. Blatter (1866). 
Tristram, H. B. Report on the terrestrial and fluviatile Mol- 
lusca of Palestine. Proc. Zool. Soc. pp. 530-545. 
The author points out in introductory remarks the chief cha- 
racteristic features of the Molluscan fauna of Palestine; they are, 
identity with the circum -mediterranean fauna on the coast and 
maritime plains, eight Clausilice in the Lebanon, peculiar or 
Arabic land-shells [Helix and Bulimus) in the Jordan valley and 
in the southern wilderness, the fluviatile mollusks more agreeing 
with tropical forms than the terrestrial. 
After mentioning the labours of his predecessors, the author 
enumerates 119 species collected by himself, adding remarks to 
nearly all of them ; he describes 12 as new, and finally gives a 
list of those said to belong to this fauna, but not found by him- 
self. 
IssEL, A. Dei molluschi raccolti dalla missione italiana in 
Persia. Torino, 1865, 4to, pp. 55, with three plates. 
(Mem. Accad. Torin. Sc. fis. matem. serie ii. tom. xxiii.) 
Marquis G. Doria, M. Lessona, Director of the Royal Museum 
at Genova, and Professor De Filippi accompanied the Italian em- 
bassy to the capital of Persia. Parts of Armenia and Russian 
Transcaucasia were also visited, and Marquis Doria proceeded 
to the Persian Sea. The memoir contains 21 land- and fresh- 
water shells from Armenia and Imoratia, 22 from Persia, 17 
marine shells from the island of Ormus and from Bender Abbas, 
7 Caspian shells, with a few land-shells from Asia Minor, and 
some marine forms from the Sea of Marmora ; finally, 13 fossil 
ones, collected near the shore of the Caspian Sea at Baku. Six- 
teen are described as new species; and figured. 
3. British India and Burmah, 
Benson, W. II. New land-shells from Travancore, AVestern 
and Northern India. Ann. ik, Mag. Nat. Hist. xv. pp. 11-15. 
