GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, &C. 
Moll. 17 
geographical distribution by IssEL & Tapparone-Canefri, Ann. Mus. 
Genov, viii. pp. 337-366. The known species of Murex 21, Ocinehra 2, 
Tritonium 1^, Persona 2^ Ranella 9, Fasciolaria 2, Cancellarla 2, La- 
tirus 6, Turhinella 1, Pyrula 2, Pisania 2, Pollia 4, sms 6, enumerated 
and discussed by Kobelt, JB. mal. Ges. hi. pp. 38-50. 
Rumph’s authority for the habitat of shells in the Indian Seas extends 
only to those species which he himself described and figured, and not to 
those added by Schynvoet ; these can easily be found out by consulting 
the text of his work, “ Amboinsche rariteitkamer.” Martens, Nachr. 
mal. Ges. 1876, pp. 71 & 72. 
Aru Islands. The species collected by E. Beccari are enumerated 
by Tapparone-Canefri, Ann. Mus. Genov, vi. (1874) pp. 648-568. 
New Caledonia. Notes on some sea-shells byP. Fischer, J. de Conch, 
xxiv. pp. 148-151 ; also by Souverbie, tom. cit. pp. 376-381. 
6 . Australia and Antarctic Seas. 
A large number of new Tasmanian species, among which a new genus 
of Elysiidce by J. E. T. Woods, P. R. Soc. Tasm. 1876, pp. 2-18, and in 
a subsequent number (October, 1876). 
New Zealand. 177 species of m^vinQ-Mollusca observed at Otago, are 
enumerated by F. W. Hutton (& G. H. F. Ulrich) in Report on the 
Geology and Goldfields of Otago, 1875, pp. 134-139. 
Kerguelen Island. 1 Cephalopod, 1 terrestrial and 6 marine Gastro- 
pods, and 5 Bivalves, some new, collected by the American expedition, 
and determined by W. H. Ball, Bull. U. S. Mus. No. 3, pp. 42-48. 
7 . Pacific, 
Aleutian Islands. Some species of sea-shells found at Unimak men- 
tioned by A. L. PiNART in “Voyage a la cote Nord-Ouest de l’Am4- 
rique,” i.,Histoire naturelle, 1875. 
The locality Caraccas, so often mentioned by Cuming, is on the coast 
of Ecuador, 0.30" S. lat. ; Martens, Nachr. mal. Ges. 1876, pp. 68 & 69. 
Pre-historic JUxisterice. 
Several land- and freshwater-shells from a recent tufa-formation near 
Seeburg, in Wiirtemberg, including a remarkable variety of Limncea 
ovata (Drap.) ; Weinland, Weichthierf. d. schw. Alb, pp. 120 & 121, 
pi. iv. fig. 8. 
Shells of Cardium edule, Melania tuherculata, and Melanopsis cariosa, 
found in the “ chotts” of the Province Constantine and the Regency of 
Tunis ; therefore these must have been lagoons of brackish water ; 
P. Fischer, J. de Conch, xxiv. pp. 257 & 258. 
Some terrestrial-shells from the “loss” formation in Turkestan, 
identical with recent ones, indicated by E. v. Martens, JB. mal. Ges. iii. 
p. 365. 
