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V. Frauenfeld, Verhandl. zool.-bot. Gesellscli. Wien, 18G9, pp. 863-900. No 
Patellides, Tecturidm^ or FissurelUdce have been found at Tahiti. 
Several species are added by Folin to his former list of shells found on 
pearl-oysters, Meleagrina. Fonds de la Mer, pp. 173, 174. 
East Coast of North America. The marine mollusca of Massachusetts are 
reviewed by W. Dali, Proc. Dost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. 1870, pp. 240-267. 
Three new species of Fusus from Greenland, described by Mdrch, Journ. 
Conch, xvii. p. 397. 
G. H. PERiaNS, in his Molluscan Fauna of New Haven, Proc. Dost. Soc. 
Nat. Hist., Nov. and Dec. 1809, enumerates 61 marine Gastropods and 40 
marine Laniollibranchs ; out of those 91 species, 60 are said to occur north of 
Capo Cod, 13 in Labrador, 8 in Greenland, 8 in Europe ; 61 extend to South 
Carolina and some still further south. — Some errors in the quotation of 
authorities are corrected by Verrill in Am. Joum. of Sc. and Arts, vol. xlix. 
March 1870. 
Some new species of sea-shells from Florida are described by T. A. Conrad, 
Am. Journ. Conch, v. pp. 104-108, pis. 10, 12, and 13. 
Red Sea. A. Issel^s ^ Malacology of the Red Sea’ is founded 
on several collections of recent and fossil species made at Akaba 
and Suez by Arconati, the author, and others. After having 
given a review of the literature bearing on the subject, and an 
account of his own personal observations, the author proceeds to 
expose his views on this fauna. There is not one species found 
on both sides of the isthmus of Suez, although not less than 30 
Mediterranean forms are so closely allied to Red Sea species 
that one may well hesitate to designate them as varieties or 
species. From the Red Sea 573 recent species are known, 
which are enumerated, with synonymy, locality, &c. A great 
number are described as new ; and the species figured in the 
' Description de PEgypte ’ carefully examined. Of fossil shells 
232 species are described. The fossil pliocene fauna of Europe 
is more similar to the recent one of the Red vSea than to the 
recent Mediterranean fauna. 
East Africa. A list of 149 marine shells collected on the 
shores of Eastern Africa by the companions of the late Von der 
Decken, chiefly at Zanzibar, is given by the Recorder in Von der 
Decken’s Reisen in Ost-Afrika, vol. iii. pp. 61-66. 
Mauritius. Some shells, observed on a newly formed little 
island at the port of Mauritius, by V. de Robillard, Transact. 
R. Soc. of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius, iii. p. 104-106 ; and 
E. Brewster, ibid. p. 111. Some new species from the same 
island described and figured by H. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, 
pp. 272, 273, pi. 19. 
Japan. The mollusks of the Japanese Seas have been carefully 
worked out by C. E. Lischke from collections made at Nan- 
gasaki, Yedo, and Hakodade. The number of species (which 
are more or less fully described) is reduced to 198, one-fifth of 
which are most beautifully figured, the plates being produced by 
