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well as new localities and corrections of names. Atti Soc. Ital. xv. part 1 
(21 pp.). 
Land-shells collected at Gibraltar (including a new Pupa), Algiers, Tunis, 
and Malta by J. Lindahl, are enumerated by 0. A. Westerlund, Nacbr. 
mal. Ges. 1872, p. 26. 
Greece, The land and freshwater shells known from the Peloponnesus 
(76 species) are reviewed by E. v. Martens, Mal. Bliitt. xx. pp. 81-50, 
with descriptions of several new or imperfectly known, collected by E. Ray- 
mond in Laconia, Arcadia, and Argolis j among the most remarkable are 2 
new species of Clausilia, both dextral. 
3. Western Asia. 
Siberia. Land and freshwater mollusks observed near the mouth of the 
Jenisei are mentioned by Friedr. Schmidt, M<5m. Petersb. xviii. 1, pp. 47 & 
48 (repeated by the Recorder in Nadir, mal. Ges. 1872, pp. 71-73). Limax 
ayrestis and Succima putris occur on the Brjochow island, in the lowest part 
of that river, 70^°-71° N. lat. A small species of Pisidium is the only shell 
found on the ‘ tundrs ’ j Anodonta anatina is found in the river up to 69° N. lat., 
and Limncea staynalis up to 66° j but Helix schrenki appears here not to pass 
the northern limit of the woods, 67°-70°. 
Turkestan. Notes on land shells collected by Fodtschenko are given by 
the Recorder, SB. nat. Fr. 1872, pp. 61-63. 
lieloochistan. Some preliminary notes on its fauna, of which the Mollusca 
are apparently very scarce, are given from a letter written by W. T. Elan- 
ford in J. de Conch, xx. p. 287 ; Pupa insularis (Ehrenb.) is the only land- 
shell observed; and among the freshwater shells are Melania tuhercidata 
(MUll.), a sp. of Limncea, and one of Planorhis. 
4. Africa. 
Preliminary notes on the land and freshwater shells of the environs of 
Alexandria, Cairo, Massowa, and the maritime parts of Abyssinia are to be 
found in Jickeli’s account of his voyage, Mal. Bhitt. xx. pp. 1-20, 99-108. 
21 species (one from Alexandria, the rest from Ilabab and Ilamaszen, Abys- 
sinia) are described by the same author, ibid. pp. 99-108. 
Madeira. 3 species of slugs and 3 of Vitrina, the first considered iden- 
tical with European species, the latter peculiar, are enumerated by Morch, 
Vid. Medd. xi. pp. 11 & 12. 
A. Mousson Revision de la Faune Malacologique des 
Canaries,^ founded on the examination of the shells brought 
from those islands by MM. Blauner, Hartung, Wollaston, 
Fritsch, and Reiss) enumerates all. the known species, with dia- 
gnoses and descriptive or critical remarks on each, and a table 
showing the geographical distribution through the seven prin- 
cipal islands of that group; there are 183 good species (ex- 
cluding 13 as questionable or uncertain), among which are 
only 9 true freshwater mollusks and 3 submarine (Marinula, 
Alexia, Truncatella) . Of these, 26 species have been found on 
