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Arango^ R. Catalogo de los moluscos terrestres y fluviales de la 
isla de Cuba. Poey^ Repert. Fisico-nat. de la Isla de 
Cuba*, 1865, July, pp. 81-112; August, pp. 123-144; 
September, pp. 145-149. 
This Catalogue contains not only names but also the syno- 
nymy, carefully compiled, and some valuable notes on specific 
distinctions. The author enumerates ; — 
121 Cyclostomucea, 10 2'ruticutellce, 78 llelicincef 2 Proserpince, 10 Auricu- 
laceUy 79 Helix ^ only 3 Bulimus, but 27 Macrocet'amtiS) 2 Pineria, 1 PupoideSj 
6 Melauiella, 1 Bulea, 1 Pseudobaleaj 14 StenogyrUf 2 SpiraxiSf 2 Achatma 
[^Liyuud]f 13 Oleacina [^Glandina^, 3 Streptostyla, 6 Subidina, 1 Buspiraxis, 
2 Cceciliatiella, 17 Pitpa, 3 Ve^'tiyaj 83 Cylindrella, 7 Succinea, 2 Vayinidus, 
2 Limnceus, 3 Physa, 7 Planovbis^ 4 AncylutS, 3 Gundlachia, 1 Poeya^ 3 Am- 
pidlariay 1 I^aludma, 2 Paludinella,2 A7nnicola^ 6 Melania , 3 Neritinaj 2 Unioj 
aud various not yet determined species of Pisidium. 
PoEY, P. Descripcipn de tres moluscos terrestres de la isla de 
Cuba. Ibid., June, pp. 69-71. 
Presas, M. Descripcion de una especie nueva de molusco ter- 
rcstre. Ibid. Nov. p. 220. [^Cylindrella garciana.'] 
. Moluscos ferrestres y fluviales encontrados per Gund- 
lach y Presas' eu jiiia excursion d.e Ceiba Mocha al Pan y 
al Palenque. Ibid, 
Thirty-eight species are named, fiye of them new, but no de- 
scription of them is added. 
Pfeiffer, L. Zur Molluskenfauna von Cuba. Mai. Blatt. 
xii, pp. 118-121. 
Pescriptions pf eight new land-shells collected by Wright. 
MartejiJS, E. V. Ueber die mexikanischen Binnen-Conchylien 
aus den Sammlungen von Peppe und Uhde im Berliner 
Museum. [On the Mexican land- and freshwater shells, 
colleeted by Deppe and Uhde, in the Zoological Museum of 
Berlin.] Malak. Blatter, xii. pp. 1-78, with a plate. Ad- 
ditional remarks^ ibid. pp. 151-152. 
The author commences with historical remarks on collectors 
and others who have contributed to the knowledge of Mexi- 
can land- and freshwater shells. He enumerates fifty-one species 
of land- shells, thirteen from fresh water, and five from brackish 
water. Most of them are described. The terrestrial and fresh- 
water species are generally peculiar to Mexico, with a few ex- 
ceptions, those ti'om brackish water common to all the shores of 
the Caribbean sea, with exception of one Cyrena, which is pro- 
bably an inhabitant of brackish watey, like the large eastern 
Ou this Journal which has just been started, see p. 174. 
