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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Mr. Pease, 4m, Pp^QlI• iU. pp. 271n-g97.^Some new spe- 
cies from the Fejee ^nd Sampa Jslfiiid^ are described by H. Orosse, Joyrn. 
Conch, j^v. pp, 297-802, 
5. Seas of China and Japan, 
. China Bemarha on marine shells are scattered through Martous’s 
Beport of the ^oology of the Prussian Expedition, i, pp, 66, 161, J64-169. 
Two sea-shells from the wooded island east pf Corea are mentioned hy 
Crosse, Joum, Conch, jcv, p. 212, — I^nmpania cumingi (Crosse) and 
sinarmn (Phil,). 
Japan. Numerous (very small) marine species are desorihed hy 4. 4 paM 9^ 
Proc, Zopl, Soc, pp, 309-314 1 among them some new genera, as QmUaf 
Amauf^Uaf Jutilla, 
Gulf of Tartary and Northern Japanese Islands* Pr, 
jScHRENCK^fi worlc (noticed above, p. 488) treats of 17^ species 
of marine Mollusks found in this region, viz. : — 110 Gastropods, 
168 Bivalves, and 4 Bracliiopods. Besides, he mentions 84 other 
species indicated by other authors as having been found in 
the same regions. Thirty-two (17 Gastropods) are doubtless 
circumpolar j 10 extend to the arctic zone of the Pacific, but are 
absent in the corresponding zone of the Atlantic ; 28 species are 
common to the west coast of North America (Sitka or California), 
but not arctic ; 22 are common to the southern Japanese islands ; 
26 extend to the tropical regions of the Indian Ocean ; 34 are, at 
present, to be regarded as peculiar to this fauna. Moreover 
tlxere are some species mentioned as being hitherto known only 
from Peru, Chile, New Holland, and the Cape *, but which are 
now found by the Bussian explorers also in the northern seas of 
Japan. Tectunculus glycymeris, finally, is a species common to 
Northern J apan and Europe without being arctic, and not even 
found in any other part of tlio Pacific, physical relations of 
this sea, its temperature, currents, prevailing winds, are fully 
discussed in this part of Dr. SchreneVs work, some characteristic 
features of its malacological fauna pointed out, as the great num- 
ber of species of Chitonj the large size and thickness of shells of 
many species, together with a rude, lustreless surface (Ostrea 
laperousii, Pirula bezoar^ Saxidomus nuttalli, Chiton stelleriy &c,), 
Generally the fauna of the Northern Japanese seas, including 
the Gulf of Tartary^ is stated to be not essentially different from 
* With regard to the five species said to he common to this fauna and the 
Cape, hut not found elsewhere, the specimens were deriyed from a collection 
made hy a captain of a whaler of the Russian-American Society, and the Re^ 
corder thinks it highly probable that such characteristic Cape-shells as 
Trochtis zonatus and cicer, &c., were picked up by the captain during a stay 
at the Cape on his way to tbe Pacific, and afterwards inadvertently mixed 
with the true Japanese shells. With regard to the Cliiliaii and Australian 
species, a certain amount of similarity between the Noyth aud South Pacific 
faunas must be acknowledged j but whether they be the same species in the 
modern sense of this term is a question open to further examination, T)r. 
Schrenck being rather inclined to unite than to distinguish species. 
