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ZOOLOGICAL LITEllATURE. 
Algiers. A rather extensive paper on 105 land and 30 freshwater species 
living in the vicinity of Algiers by Oh. Lallemant, Ann. Soc. Malacol. Belg. 
iii. p. 15. No new species. 
3 . Africa. 
Nile. The mollusks mentioned in tho voyage of G. ]3rocchi in Egypt 
(1822-1820) are mentioned, and as far as possible determined, by E. v. Martens, 
Mai. Bhitt. xvi. pp. 84-80. 
Cape- Verd Islands. H. Dohrn enumerates 22 land- and 7 freshwater shells 
found by himself in the Cape- Verd Islands, and gives valuable critical remarks 
on most of them. The genera and subgenera are nearly the same as in 
Madeira and the Canary Islands, only Isidora and Melania are continental 
African types represented in the Cape- Verd Islands, but not in the Canaries 
or Madeira. The species are nearly all j>eculiar j also H. advena (Webb) lives 
not in the Canaries, but only in the Oape-Verd Islands. Mai. Blatt. xvi. 
pp. 1-28. 
Western Africa. Three species of Limicolaria and two of Spatha brought 
home from the Yoriba River by G. Rohlfs, determined by E. v. Martens, 
Mai. Blatt. xvi. pp. 72-75. 
Abyssinia. Some notes by W. Blanford, in which the land-shell fauna 
of Abyssinia is stated to be very poor, are inserted in the Journ. Conch, xvii. 
p. 109. A more ample account is given by the same author in his ‘ Observa- 
tions on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia,’ published in 1870. 
Eastern Africa. A list of the land- and freshwater shells hitherto known 
from Eastern Africa, between Cape Guardafui and Port Natal, with additional 
lists of those from Abyssinia, from Socotra, and from the Seychelle Islands, 
is given by the Recorder in V. n. Decken’s Reisen in Ost-Afrika, vol. viii. 
pp. I48-15I. 
Fourteen terrestrial and six freshwater shells, which were found with 
some marine species among seeds of Sesame imported from Zanzibar, are 
enumerated and partly described by E. v. Martens, Nachrichtsbl. mal. 
Gesellsch. i. pp. 149-156. 
Seychelle Islands. Twenty-one species of land-shells, from the Seychelle 
Islands, together with four living in fresh and six living in brackish water, 
described by G. Neville, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, pp. 61-66. He states that they 
have more affinity with the Indian than with the Malagash or African fauna. 
Seven species out of twenty-one land-shells are supposed to have been in- 
troduced. 
4 . India. 
Himalaya. A new species of Nanina is described j and the shells figured 
in Jacquemont’s ‘Voyage dans TInde ’ (1828-32) are determined by E. v. 
Maitens, Mal. Blatt. xvi. pp. 75-77. 
Nine land- and six freshwater shells from Ava and Yunan (the latter tho 
first known from that inland province of China) described by Blanford, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, pp. 4 44 - 4 50. 
Andaman Islands. Helix achatina (Gray), Scarabus trigonus (Troschel), 
Ilelicina nicubarica (Phil.), and five species of land-shells said to be new, 
and which will be mentioned in the special part, have been brought from 
those islands to G. VV. Tryon. Am. .Tourn. Conch, v. pp. 108-111, pi. 10. 
