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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
by E. Friedel, Mai. Blatt. xvi. pp. 68-62. The rarest of them ia Panopcea 
noi'vegica (Spengl.). 
Normandy. 48 species of marine mollusks found on the coast of Nor- 
mandy, at Vaast-la-Houge, most of them between tide-marks, are enume- 
rated by Ed. Grube, in Verhandl. schlesischen Gesellschaft fiir vaterliindische 
Kultur, I860. 
Western France. Tasl»5 gives a list of 397 species of mollusks inhabiting the 
west coast of France, viz. 163 Cephalopods and Gastropods, and 244 Bivalves. 
Act. Acad. Rochelle (Journ. Conch, xvii. p. 302). 107 species of marine 
mollusks living on the coast of the Gironde are enumerated by Lafont, 
Note Faune Gironde, Bordeaux, 1868. 
P. Fischer, in a Supplement to his Conchological Fauna of the Gironde, 
treats of the currents of that coast. Ho mentions a largo bank of Avicala 
near Arcachon, and brings the total number of marine mollusks observed in 
South-western France to 347 species. Act. Soc. Linn. Bord. xxvii. 
Six naked Gastropods (two of which are new) and two Cephalopods are 
added to the known fauna of Western France by P. Fischer and A. Lafont. 
Joum. Conch, xvii. pp. 1-14. 
Mediterranean. Tiberi states that a number of species, hitherto considered 
to be extinct, or known only from other parts, have recently been found 
living in the Mediterranean. The more remarkable are the following : — Tro~ 
phon harvicensis, imiricatus, carinatus j Buccinum humphrexjsianum j Nassa 
semistriata ; Neverita catena ; Pleurotoma undatiruga, teres, crispata ; Bela 
morchii and torquata\ Scalaria muricata) Turritella subangulata. Bull. 
Mai. Ital. ii. pp. 252-271. 
C. TArpARONE-CANEFRi has given a list of the shells found in the Gulf 
of Spezia, containing several species additional to those published by Ca- 
pellini in 1860. The more important are: — Tritoniiim cutaceum (L.), Pur- 
pura hcemastoma (L.), Trivia pulex (Sol.), Scalaria turtmiis (Turt.), lanthina 
fragilis (Blainv.), Dentalium rubescens (Desh.), Akera bullata (Mull.), Fis- 
surella nubecula (L.), Tellina nitida (Poll), and Skenea nitidissima (Jeflr.). 
Atti Soc. Ital. xii. pp. 261-406. 
The sea-shells of the coasts of Tuscany are enumerated by T. L. Appelius. 
Bullet. Mai. Ital. ii. 
A list of shells dredged on the coast of Elba are mentioned by A. Manzoni, 
Journ. Conch, xvii. pp. 117-120. They are not numerous, the sea being 
deep and the bottom granite. 
Some new species of shells fi'om Southern Europe and the Canary Islands 
are described and figured by IJ. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, pp. 274, 276, 
pi. 19. 
Some new minute shells from the Adriatic are described by Brusina, 
Journ. Conch, xvii. pp. 230-249. 
A new Folium from Palermo and some other new shells fr-om the Medi- 
terranean are described by Allery de Monterosato, ibid. pp. 228, 274- 
276. 
2 . Exotic Seas. 
A list of the shells collected during the expedition of the Austrian Frigate 
^Novara’ at Gibraltar, Madeira, Rio Janeiro, Cape, St. Paul, Ceylon, Madras, 
Nicobar Islands, Singapore, .lava, Manilla, Hongkong, Shanghai, Punipet, 
and Stuart Islands, Sydney, Auckland, Tahiti, and Chile is published by G. 
