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8 land-snails, 1 Cephalopod. The freshwater shells are Me- 
lania and LimnmuSy the land-snails 1 Pupa^ and the others 
Helix ; no species of Cyclostomacea has been found. 
Jones, J. M. Contributions to the Natural History of the 
Bermudas. Part I. Mollusca. Trans. Nov. Scot, Inst. 
Nat. Sc. Halifax, vol. ii. part 1, 1804. 
We regret that we have not had an opportunity of examining 
this memoir ; it is said to contain 120 species, probably most of 
them being sea-shells. 
CiiossE, H. Description d^especes nouvelies de la Guadeloupe. 
Journ. Conch, xiii. pp. 27-38. 
3. lied Sea and Indian Ocean, 
Vaillant, L. Recherches sur la faune malacologique de la 
bale de Sue^. Journ. Conch, xiii. pp. 97-127. 
This memoir contains a list of eighty-seven species, four of 
which are new, and general remarks on the depths and nature of 
the bottom near Suez. Accurate observations on the present 
mollusk-fauna of the Red Sea are of the greater interest, as it is 
not improbable that within a few years a communication will be 
opened between it and the Mediterranean. The Recorder is 
obliged to remark on this occasion that very erroneous ideas are 
commonly accepted with regard to this fauna. The ^Description 
de hEgypte^ contains valuable figures of shells, but it does not give 
any information as to which of them belong to the Red Sea fauna 
and which to the Mediterranean, as the letterpress was written 
long afterwards, and by persons who had no access to the original 
notes. A similar misfortune happened with regard to the collec- 
tions made by Ehrenberg ; the shells from both seas were mixed 
when brought home, during the absence of the collector ; conse- 
quently the list of species common to the Red Sea and the Me- 
diterranean, given by R. A. Philippi in his otherw ise very praise- 
worthy work on the shells of Sicily and based upon these 
materials, does not deserve credit. 
Fischer, P. Note sur les faunes conchyliologiques des deux 
rivages de Pisthme de Suez. Journ. Conch, xiii. pp. 241- 
248. 
The author gives lists of shells collected at Port Said and at 
Suez, and shows that the two faunas are quite distinct at 
present. 
Erauenfeld, G. von. Ueber zwei Meeresschnecken von St. 
Paul. Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xv. pp. 893-895. 
\Ranella and Terebratulay from the island of St. Paul.] 
