MOLLUSCA. 235 
lusca, by J. Alder. Nat. Hist. Transactions of Northum- 
berland and Durham, vol. i. pp. 5-11. 
During three years’ dredging one beautiful Nudibranch, the 
Hero formosa of Loven/has been added to the British fauna; 
and four testaceous Gastropods, Eulima nitida, E. gracilis, 
Eissoa cimicoides, and Chiton albus, have been found for the 
first time on the north-east coast; but a few fine and rare 
species, including iurtoni, F. norvcgiciis , F. herviciensis , and 
Buccinopus dalei, for which this locality has obtained some 
celebrity, were not met with, probably because they inhabit 
rocky ground. There have been obtained 2 species of Ce- 
phalopods {Sepiola), 84 of Gastropods, and 65 of Lamelli- 
branchiates, the list of which is given. 
Of 135 Testacea 30 are now living in the Arctic seas, 120 
are found on the shores of Norway and Sweden; about 20, 
which are not likely to be overlooked, are absent on the south 
coast of England ; upwards of 50 are met with in the glacial 
and post-pliocene beds of this country, and 82 are found fossil 
in the Crag. 
Meyer, H. A., and Momus, K. Fauna der Kieler Bucht, 
Vol. 1. Die Hinterkiemer oder Opisthobranchia. Leipzig, 
1865, fol. pp. XXX and 88, with twenty-six plates. 
A very fine work. The introduction contains geographical, 
physical, and meteorological descriptions of the harbour of Kiel ; 
the more common seaweeds, Zostera and Fuci, are mentioned : 
the various kinds grow on different spots of the harbour, 
and offer a home to certain groups of the smaller animals. 
The authors enumerate a good many species of all classes ob- 
served hitherto in the harbour, and indicate the circumstances 
under which they make their appearance. Five regions can be 
distinguished, — 1, the sand of the beach ; 2, the region of the 
green Zostera full of life, depth 3-4 fathoms ; 3, that of the de- 
cayed and dissolving Zostera, depth 3-6 fathoms ; 4, the region 
of the red Floridese, depth 5-10 fathoms; and, finally, 5, that 
of the black mud. Only one of the species observed has hitherto 
not yet been found in the German Ocean, on the coasts of 
England or Norway. The article on the methods of fishing 
and collecting deserves the attention of all practical naturalists 
and collectors. 
Tasle. Supplement au Catalogue des Mollusques observes 
dans le departement de Morbihan. Vannes, 1864, 8vo, 
pp. 10. Extrait du Bull. Soc. Polymath. (1864). See 
Zool. Record, i. p. 201. 
Forty-six species are enumerated, the most remarkable of 
which is Cassidaria rugosa — tyrrhena, Gmel. It is difficult to 
conceive how the author can persist in maintaining that TeU 
