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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Paludina eyriesi, sp. n., Morelet; Journ. Oonch. xiii, p. 227, frppa Gochin- 
chiiia. 
Dr. von Martens makes the following remarks on species of Paludina, 
Malak. Blatt. xii. pp. 144-151 : — 
1. Paludina ingallsiana (Lea) is from Siam, as originally stated hy Lea, 
and very common there, not from Japan, as indicated by error in Cuming’s 
collection, and hence in Reeve’s Monograph. 
2. Paludina quadrata (Bens.). To this Chinese species belongs the name 
angtdaris (O. Fr. Miill.), founded on specimens from Canton, and figured in 
Chemnitz, Conchylien-Cabinet, vol. ix. figs. 1222 & 1223, which has been 
generally misapplied to another species spread over the islands of the Indian 
archipelago, including the Philippines, and described by various authors as 
P. carinata (Valenciennes), costata (Quoy & Gaim.), hurroughiana (Lea), tri- 
carinata (Anton). 
3. Paludina lineolata (Mousson in Reeve’s Conchol. Iconica) is P. poly- 
gramma (Martens, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1860) from Siam j P. lineolata (Mous- 
son), examined by myself in Mousson’s collection, is from Sumatra and=P. 
stmatrensis (Dunker). 
4. Paludina carinata in Reeve’s works does not appear to be the true 
carinata of Swainson, which is an inhabitant of cis-Gangetic India and, as 
the Recorder may add from a specimen received from Hr. Morch, identical 
with {Nerita) diss^imilis (0. Fr. Muller). 
5. Paludina lineata (Valenciennes) ==P. multilineata (^cif)=hengalensis 
(Lam.) acclimatized in North America ; this North American four-banded 
shell is not analogous to the European three-banded species, as has been ge- 
nerally supposed. 
The Recorder regrets to be obliged to state here that some of the errors con- 
cerning the habitats of certain species, originated in Mr. Cuming’s collection, 
in consequence of this deeply lamented conchyliologist's habit of exchang- 
ing less perfect specimens against others in a more beautiful condition, 
without always changing the original label. 
Paludina ( Vivipara) purpurea^ sp. n.. Martens, Mai. Blatt. xii. p. 150, and ' 
Ann. &Mag. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 428, Murray River, Australia; P. ausirah^^ 
(Reeve), probably (Shuttleworth), affinis and polita, sp. n.,- 
from Australia, Martens, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xvi. pp. 255 & 256. 
Vivipara inornata, sp. n., Binney, Am. Jomn. Oonch. i. p. 49, pi. 7. f. 1, 
Chopatilo, Mexico. 
Paludina {Cleopatra) hulimoides (Olivier) : on the synonymy of this common 
shell of the Nile, see Martens, Mai. Blatt. xii. p. 203. 
Melantho decampi, sp. n., Binney, Am. Journ. Conch, i. p. 49, pi. 7. f. 23, 
Alabama. 
Bithynia. The following species are figm’ed by v. Frauenfeld in Verhandl. 
zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, xv. pis. 8-10 : — B. mei'idionalis, Spain; schraderi, 
locality unknown ; umhratica^ Spain ; tristis, Persia ; africunuy vertiginosa, 
Australia ; perfecta^ North America ; shuttleworthi, China ; proxima, Tyrol ?; 
letochce, Spain ; adamsii, British India ; walderdm'ffi^ Dalmatia ; schwabii, 
Macedonia. Tliese species were described by the author several years ago. 
