Mollusca. 
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water), just as in the Moluccas. Limnceaceaf Paludinm, or Am- 
pullarim have not been found hitherto. The Feejee group agrees 
further with New Caledonia, New Guinea, and the Moluccas in 
having large species of Cyrena [Batissa ) , 
Crosse, H. Description d’especes nouvelles, provenant des 
lies Gambier. Journ. Conch, xiii. pp. 217-224. 
M. Paz collected in these islands, some years ago, seven species 
of land-shells : — 2 CyclophoruSj 1 Helicina, 1 Hydrocena [^55^- 
ininea'^'], 1 Helix, 1 Pupa, 1 Tornatellina, Four of them proved 
to be new. 
Pease, W. II . Descriptions of new species of Phaneropneumona 
inhabiting Polynesia. Am. Journ. Conch, i. pp. 287-291. 
6. Australia. 
Cox, J. C. Descriptions of seven new species of Australian 
land-shells. Proc. Zool. Soc. pp. 695-697. 
Martens, E. v. On the Australian species of Paludina. Ann. 
& Mag. Nat. Hist. xvi. pp. 255 & 256, and Mai. Blatt. xii. 
pp. 150 & 151. 
7. Ti'opical Africa. 
Doiirn, II. List of the land- and freshwater shells of the 
Zambesi and Lake Nyassa, Eastern Tropical Africa, col- 
lected by Dr. J. Kirk. Proe. Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 231-234. 
Nine land- and eleven freshwater shells, most being identical 
with species from Mozambique : six are described as new. Palu- 
dina hidimmdes (Olivier) from the River Rovuma is the only 
exclusively Nilotic species. Melania tuberculata (Miill.) also in 
Lake Nyassa. 
Lea, F. Descriptions of six new species of Unionidee from Lake 
Nyassa, Central Africa. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1864, 
pp. 108 & 109. 
. Descriptions of two new species of Unionidee of South 
Africa. Ibid. p. 113. 
8. T)'opical America. 
Bland, T. Notes on certain Terrestrial Mollusca, with de- 
scriptions of new species. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, 
viii. 1865, pp. 155-170. ♦ 
Contains conchological and anatomical observations on some 
Proserpinidee, a new Stenopus, the genus Cylindrella, some 
species of Helix, Pupa, and Succinea from North America, 
Mexico, and Venezuela. 
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