20 Moll. 
MOLLUSCA. 
The marshlands on the German Coast between the mouths of the 
Weser and the Elbe support a very scanty number of terrestrial shells, 
viz., Helix arbustorum and hispida, Carychium minimum^ Succinea putris^ 
and pfeifferi^ but a more considerable number of freshwater shells. Bor- 
CIIEUDING, Nadir, mal. Ges. 1880, pp. 21-23. Vitrina diaphana (Dr.) 
found at Bremen ; id. 1. c. p. 83. 
Arngast Island, Jade, N. Germany. Only Succinea oblonga, Pupa mus- 
corum, and Vitrina pellucida have been found here. Huntsman N, Abh. 
Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 143. 
Danzig. Note on its malaqological fauna, Hyalina petronella and con- 
tracta, Helix umhrosa, personata, Planorhis vorticulus and riparius, Valvata 
naticina, and Pisidium scholtzi being the more remarkable ; Schumann, 
in “Danzig in naturwissenschaftlicher uud medizinischer Beziehung,” 
1880, pp. 93-95. Some notes on its freshwater shells, including Unio 
crassus (Retz.) in the River Radaune, by S. L. Schultze, Schr. Ges. 
Danzig, iv. p. 178. 
Westphalia. P. Hesse adds Hyalina draparnaldi and suhterranea to 
the malacological fauna of this province, and states the numerical rela- 
tions of the small shells found in the alluvial deposits of the rivers; 4711 
specimens were collected, belonging to 37 species ; Helix costata and 
pulchella formed 31 per cent, of them, Carychium minimum 17, Cionella 
luhrica 10, Hyalina nitida and radiatula 8, Succinea putris nearly 8, S. 
ohlonga 6, Helix hispida^ Pupa pygmcea, and Cionella acicula each 5 per'' 
cent. JB. zool. sect. Westf. Mus. 1880, pp. 66-73. 
Westphalia, Osnahruck. 40 terrestrial and 35 freshwater species enu- 
merated by P. Borcherding, Nachr. mal. Ges. 1880, pp. 89-96; the most 
remarkable among them is Hyalina draparnaldi (Beck). Helix hidens 
found in Westphalia ; Hesse, tom. cit. p. 17. 
Pyrmqnt. 63 terrestrial and 27 freshwater species enumerated by P. 
Hesse. The more remarkable are Vitrina diaphana, Cionella menlceana, 
Cyclostoma elegans, and Acme polita ; Buliminus detritus and tridens, 
Planorhis corneus, vortex, and Paludina contecta [listeri\ are wanting. 
Mal. Bl. (2) ii. pp. 1-11. 
Schbneherg (near Cassel). 20 species of land shells, including Daude- 
hardia rufa and Acme polita found before here by C. Pfeilfer in 1822, 
enumerated by Diemar, Nachr. mal. Ges. 1880, pp. 109 & 110. 
. Harz. 58 terrestrial and 25 freshwater species enumerated by C. 
Riemensciineider, Z. ges. Naturw. (2) v. pp. 431-444. The more 
remarkable among them are Helix ruder ata, ohvoluta, personata, incarnata, 
candidula, Buliminus detritus, tridens, Cionella menkeana. Pupa frumen- 
turn, doliolum, Balea fragilis, Clausilia hiplicata, plicata, lineolata, 
imrvula, duhia, Amphipeplea glutinosa. 
Hichsfeld. Bulimus detritus and Clausilia lineolata added to the former 
list [Zool. Rec. xvi. Moll. p. 22], and the numerical relations of some Clau- 
silice, given by Bottger, Nachr. mal. Ges. 1880, p. 53. 
Thuringia. Some land shells from Ihlefeld, Ruhla, Meiningen and 
Coburg (the latter with indication of the geognostical nature of the soil 
by H. Loretz), enumerated by Bottger, Nachr. mal. Ges. 1880, 
pp. 54-56. 
