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mity) ; and a few are possessed in eomraon with Borneo, the 
Philippines, or the neighbouring islands of the Molueeas, 
Brazier gives some notes concerning the synonymy and localities of 
several Australian and Western Polynesian land-shells. P. Z. S. 1872, 
pp. 805-808. 
Several new land-shells from Australia and the Solomon Islands described 
by J. Cox and J. Brazier, ibid. pp. 18-21, pi. 4, and by G. F. Angas and 
H. Adams, ibid. pp. 610-614, pi. 42. 
The new edition of J. B. Gassies’s Fauna of New Caledonia, forming a part 
of Act. Soc. L. Bord. (see Zool. Rec. viii. pp. 116 & 126) has also been published 
as a separate work at Paris, and provided with 8 col. plates. Some critical 
notes concerning it will be found in J. de Conch, xxi. pp. 91-94. 
Some new land and freshwater shells from New Caledonia, described by 
II. Crosse, .1. de Conch, xx. pp. 69-71, 148-163, 166, 167, 226-227, 362- 
360, pi. 16, by Souverbie, ibid. p. 148, and by Gassies, ibid. pp. 365-367. 
Several new species of Fitys {Endodonici) from Cook’s Isles, all known 
species of Bulimus, including 7 new, and some other new land, freshwater, and 
brackish-water mollusks from the Viti Islands, are described by A. Garrett, 
Am. J. Conch, vii. pp. 219-236, pis. 18 & 19. 
Some observations concerning the distribution of the subgenera of Acha- 
tinella in the Sandwich Islands, by M. Gulick, are to be found in Bull. Soc. 
Mai. Belg. 1872, pp. cxii-cxiv. 
6. Tropical America. 
The land-shells collected by the scientific commission sent by 
the Spanish Government, in 1862-1865, across the continent of 
South America, are fully described by Gonzales Hidalgo in a 
new work cited above. The Recorder has not seen this work ; but 
it appears from an announcement in J. de Conch, xiii. 1873, 
pp. 79-81, that most of the species described in it were pre- 
viously published and figured in that journal ; and most of these 
have now been reprinted in the same author’s ' Coleccion de las 
Memorias,’ &c. 
The second part of Crosse and Fischer’s work on the terres- 
trial and freshwater Mollusks of Mexico has been publislied in 
1872, pp. 153-304, pis. 7-12: it contains the genera Zonites 
(including Hyalina) 19 sp., Limax 1, Tebennophorus {Philo- 
my cm) 1, Xanthonyx 4, Helix 54, and Berendtia 1. All the 
species are described, partly from originals ; many are figured ; 
and the anatomy of some of them is completely given. 
New species from Mexico and Central America described. Crosse & 
Fischer, J. de Conch, xx. pp. 69, 60, 73-77, 222-226, 301-303. 
Nicaragua. The land-shells of that country agree partly 
with those of Mexico, but still more with those of the con- 
tinent of South America. R. Tate, Brit. Assoc. Rep. 1870, 
p. 117. 
1872. [vol. IX.] 
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