GEOGKAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 
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Greece. Some land shells from the islands Amorgos, Syra, and Paros, 
collected by T. v. Heldreich, mentioned by O. Reinhardt, SB. nat. Fr. 
1881, pp. 135 & 136. 
Crimea. Some land shells, including 4 new, by Clessin, Mai. Bl. (2) 
iii. pp. 136-141. (See also Russia.) 
8. Western Asia. 
Transcaucasia, inch Russian Armenia. 103 terrestrial and 24 fresh- 
water species, several new, or with new varieties, enumerated and dis- 
cussed by O. BOttger, JB. mal. Ges. viii. pp. 167-261. The genus 
Pomatias, and some well-known European species, as Piqm avenacea and 
Patula rupestris, were heretofore not known from that country. New 
species of Clausilia ; id. 1. c. pp. 341-346. 38 terrestrial and 4 fresh- 
water species, including 2 now, found from Poti to Tiflis, enumerated by 
S. Ceessin, Mal. Bl. (2) iii. pp. 129-135. Pupa {Leucocliilus') theeli 
(Wester!.), hitherto only known from Siberia, has been found on the 
banks of the Rion. 
Lalce of Tiberias. Fresh-water shells collected by Lortet, Nachr. 
mal. Ges. 1881, p. 27, and J. of Couch, iii. p. 180. 
Country of the Mijjertain Somalis, near Aden. Terrestrial and 
fluviatile shells described by J. R. Bourguignat (title supra). 
9. Northern Africa. 
Oran, and Northern coast of Morocco. Very valuable notes on their 
land snails, made by Kobelt on his voyage in these countries, Nachr. 
mal. Ges. 1881, pp. 81-89, 97-115, 149-159, and 165-178. Especially he 
points out the analogy of the land shells from Oran with those from 
Murcia in Spain, and again the analogy of those from Tetuau, in 
Morocco, with those from Sicily ; JB. mal. Ges. viii. pp. 278 &'f21 & 328, 
and Zool. Anz. iv. p. 522. 
Algerian Sahara. Some recent and subfossil species by L. Morlet, 
in Roudaire's “ Rapport sur I’Expcdition des Schotts,” 1881, pp. 168-170, 
and J. de Conch, xxix. pp. 343-346, pi. xii. Several fresh-water shells 
from Wady-Rir, Wargla, and the Zab river, mentioned by G. Rolland, 
C. R. xciii. p. 1090. 
10, Tropical Africa. 
Abyssinia. 3 terrestrial and 15 fresh-water species collected in the 
“ hunting grounds of the Anseba,” by J. Piroth, enumerated and 2 new 
described by C. Jickeli, JB. mal. Ges. viii. pp. 336-340. 
Socotra Island. Its malacological fauna has been explored by Prof. 
I. Bayley Balfour, in February and March, 1880, and by Riebeck and 
G. SciiWEiNFURTH, in April and May, 1881. The shells collected by 
the former have been described by H. H. Godwin-Austen, P. Z. S. 
1881 [Aug. 1, 1881] pp. 251-257, pis. xxvii. & xxviii. Cyclostomklo'., and 
pt. 4 [published April 1, 1882] pp. 801-812, pis. lxviii.j'& Ixix., Pulmo- 
