32 Moll, 
MOLLUSCA. 
N.E. Madagascar, the Seychelle and Amirantes Islands enumerated (many 
collected by K. Mobius) ; 280 of them are not known elsewhere, 212 also 
from the Red Sea, 289 from the East Coast of Africa, G80 from East Indies 
(Ceylon, and the Malay Archipelago), 204 from the islands of the Pacific, 83, 
from Australia south of the tropic, only 8 from tlio sou thorn extremity of 
Africa (Natal excluded), and 91 from the Atlantic. Many small species are 
hitherto only known from Mauritius, and from some of the Pacific islands. 
Of the littoral marine Mollusca, there is a nearly identical fauna from the 
coast of tropical East Africa through the Indian Ocean to the coral 
islands of the Pacific ; it is predominant on the coral-reefs, and is remark- 
ably poor in Bivalves ; the fauna of the surge-beaten southern extremity 
of Africa is quite different from it. E. v. Martens, Mollusca^ in 
Momus’s Beitrage Meeresf. Maur. pp. 216-332, generalities, pp. 233-236. 
List of 34 shells from Madagascar by F. Pollen in the general 
catalogue of the International Exhibition of Fishery at Berlin, 1880, pp. 
160 & 161, 
Port DarwiUj Torres Straits. 3 new species by G. F. Angas, P. Z. S. 
1880, pp. 418 & 419, pi. xl. 
North-east Australia. J. E. Tenison Woods gives a very interesting 
sketch of the littoral fauna from Trinity Bay to Endeavour River, 
17-15^^ S. lat., with many observations on the mode of life of many 
Mollusca^ P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. v. pp. 106-131 ; he distinguishes the 
iuhabitants of the rocks, those of the mangrove swamps, and those of 
the coral reefs, and mentions the most characteristic Evertebrates of each. 
[The general feature of these faunae is very like that of the Moluccas 
according to the observations of the Recorder in 1862-63,] 
Some critical notes concerning the Australian localities given in the 
Catalogues of the Museum Godeffroy by J. Brazier, P. Linn. Soc. 
N. S. W. iv. [1879] p. 390. 
Solomon Islands. The Recorder regrets to have hitherto omitted E. A. 
Smith's List of Marine Shells chiefly from the Solomon Islands ; J. L. S. 
xii. [1876] pp. 535-562, pi. xxx. The new species will be mentioned 
infra. 
New Caledonia. List of marine shells by E. Kittl, Ber. Ver. Hoch- 
schnl. Wien, ii. [1878] pp. 50-52. 
Polynesia. 166 species of Mitridce^ including from Fiji Islands 120, 
Tonga 48, Samoa 76, Kingsmill 43, Carolines 44, Cook's 41, Society 64, 
Paumotu 81, Marquesas 7, and Sandwich 36, enumerated by A. Garrett, 
J. of Conch, iii. pp. 1-73. New species from the Papuan and Polynesian 
Islands by Watson, J. L. S. xv. pp. 87-126 & 217-230. 
7. Northern Pacific. 
British Columbia. List of marine Mollusks, containing a new species, 
by J. F. Wiiiteaves, Canad. Nat. viii. [1878, No. 8], this fauna for the 
most part is Oregonian in its character (W. Dali), 
Vancouver Island. 6 new species by E. A. Smith, Ann. N. H. (5) vi. 
pp. 286-289. 
Mid Pacific^ East of Japan. Lacuna {Ilela) margaritifera^ sp. n.. 
