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MOLLUSCA. 
aria (Boub^e) to ths fifth zone ; id. 1. c. pp. 156-158. A pamphlet 
entitled “Mollusques de la haute valine d' Ambus (Pyrdn^es),” by Fagot, 
1875, has not been seen by the Recorder. 
Spoleto. 41 terrestrial and 12 freshwater shells, enumerated by 
Dante Paganelli, Bull. mal. Ital. (2) ii. pp. 233-240. 
Naples. List of 36 species found at the Botanical Gardens by 
V. Cesati, op. cit. i. pp. 125-128 (1875). 
Sicily. 201 terrestrial and 56 freshwater species, enumerated by 
Jj. Benoit, tom. cit. pp. 129-163. 
Sardinia. 39 terrestrial and 10 freshwater species, enumerated by 
G. B. Adami, op. cit. ii. p. 219-222. 
Greece. Some new species of Helix and Clausilia from Boeotia, Attica, 
Euboea, and Messene, collected by H. Blanc, are described by E. v. 
Martens, JB. mal. Ges. 1876, pp. 338-343, pi. xii. 
Azores. Specimens from these islands of Arion (Prolepis) fuscus 
(Miill.), Limax gagates (Drap.) in several varieties, and Limax agrestis 
(L.), all European species, in the Stockholm Museum. Malm, (Efv. Ak. 
Forh. xxxiii. No. 1, pp. 73-80. 
3. Northern Asia. 
Siberia. A species of Fhysa, found by Skutsberg during Prof. Nor- 
denskiold’s expedition near Cape Schaitanskoi, in the region of dwarf 
birch trees, is considered to be the most northern freshwater-shell 
hitherto found ; H. Crosse, J. de Conch, xxiv. p. 135. [This cape is 
situated a little below 72® N. lat., but Middendorff has long ago observed 
Physa Jiypnorum in the peninsula Taimyr, 73° 30" N. lat.] 6 new species 
of land-Mollusca and 11 of freshwater-shells found on the shores of the 
Yenisei River, between 61° and 71° N. lat., are described by Wester- 
LUND & Clessin, Nachr. mal. Ges. 1876, pp. 97-104. 
Transcaucasia. A number of land- and freshwater-shells sent by 
Sievers are examined, and the new species described by A. Mousson, 
J, de Conch, xxiv. pp. 24-51 & 137-148 ; they make up the number of 
known species from that country to 160, about a fourth of which (37) are 
distributed over a large part of Europe. 79 species collected in the same 
country by A. Schneider, some new, are enumerated by E. v. Martens, 
JB. mal. Ges. iii. pp. 364-370. 
Khiva. Two. species of terrestrial Mollusks from the eastern shore of 
the Caspian Sea, already known from Samarcand, and 6 freshwater 
species from salt lakes and the dry bed of the Amu Darja, already 
known from the Caspian Sea and Lake Aral, indicated by E. v. Martens, 
JB. mal. Ges. iii. pp. 334-337, pi. xii. 
Lahe Baikal. 25 species of freshwater-snails have been collec.ted by 
B. Dybowski & W. Godlewski, 20 are operculated and Pectinihranchia^ 
the rest being Pulmonata. There are 3 genera, hitherto only known 
from this lake, viz., ChoanompJialus among the latter, Benedictea 
and Limnorea^ gg. nn., {infra) among the former ; the rest of the 
species belong to Hydrohia, Valvata, and Ancylus. No species of 
