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localities, such as ponds, slowly- flowing rivulets, and leafy woods, &c., 
are not found there, and describes 6 peculiar Alpine varieties of land- 
shells, and 3 apparently new Alpine species. Mai. Bl. xxv. pp. 81-89. 
F. A. Forel recapitulates his observations on the deep fauna of the 
lakes in Switzerland ; he has found the following species in Lake Leman, 
in depths from 15 to 334 metres, where only a few cryptogamic plants 
grow ; Limnmus stagnalis, abyssicola (Brot), foreli (Clessin), Valvata 
ohtusa, Pisidium foreli and profundum (Clessin). Z, wiss. Zool. xxx. 
suppl. vol. p. 386. 
Some land-shells collected at Culoz, Ddp. Ain, by W. Kobelt, Nachr. 
mal. Ges. 1878, p. 97. 
Transylvania. The known species of Hyalina treated by 0. Jickeli, 
Verb, siebenb. Ver. xxviii. pp. 122-125. 
2 . Southern Europe. 
Many little-known species of Helix, subgenus Xerophila and Fruticicola, 
of Hyalina, with some of Unio Anodonta, from Southern Europe and 
the Mediterranean shores of Asia and Africa, are treated and- flgured in 
Kobelt’s continuation of Rossmassler’s Iconographie, vi. pts. 1-3, pis. 
151-165. 
Pyrenees. P. Fischer gives a second supplement to his malacological 
fauna of the valley of the Cauterets [Zool. Rec. xiii. Moll. p. 11], 
adding 3 more species, and various notes to those already enumerated ; 
J. do Conch, xxvi. pp. 137-143. De St. Simon has published a paper 
on the Mollusca of the D4p. Haute-Garonne ; 19 species are found 
only in the mountains, 51 both in mountains and plains, 65 only in the 
plains. Those peculiar to the mountains are: — Vitrina elongata, Zonites 
radiatulus, Helix rupestris, carascalensis, Azeca trigonostoma, Papa 
cylindracea, triplicata, doUolum, avenacea, higorriensis, jumillensis, Plan- 
orhis Icevis, Limncea peregra, Pomatias marquetianus, Paludinella simon- 
iana, guranensis, reyniesi, baudoniana, and Pisidium tJiermale. Bull. Soc. 
Toulouse, 1876; abstract in J. de Conch, xxxvi. p. 194. Folin & Beril- 
LON have published a “Contribution ^ la faune malacologique de la 
region extreme du S.-O. de la France’’ (Dax, 1876, second fascicle, 
Bayonne, 1877), containing notes on the snails found at Jean-Pied de 
Port, Dep. Basses Pyrenees, and descriptions of Cryptazeca monodonta 
[Zool. Rec. xiv. Moll. p. 67], Acme micronema, and Zaa lubrica var. 
dentata ; abstract in J. de Conch, xxvi. pp. 194 & 195. P. Fagot has 
found a number of rare terrestrial species, hitherto only known in the 
alluvial plains of the Garonne, alive on the eocene and chalk between 
Cazeres and St. Martory, including a new Clausilia. Bull. Soc. Toulouse, 
xi. [1877] ; abstract, J. de Conch, xxvi. p. 201. 
D. Dupuy has observed 40 species living on a little alluvial island of 
the Gironde, including Helix cornea (Drap.) and Limncea glabra (Miill.) ; 
Rev. agric. et hort. du Gers, 1878. 
Southern France. Dubrueil publishes a new paper on the terrestrial 
and fluviatile Mollusca of the D^p. de 1’ Hdrault (Montpellier) ; Rev. 
Montp. vii. pp. 52-60, 209-216, 329-336. Some notes on the malaco- 
