18 Moll. 
MOLLCrSCA. 
logical fauna of the small island in Marseilles roads are given by 
J. Chakeyre ; Bull. Soc. Mars. sep. copy, 8 pp. 
Balearic Islands. G. Hidalgo enumerates 72 terrestrial species, in- 
cluding 1 Truncatella and 5 Auriculidce ; three-fourths of them occur 
also in Spain, about a half in Sicily, Algeria, and Southern France ; 1 
species of Limax^ 12 Helix, and 1 Alexia are peculiar to the group, but 
most of them are nearly allied to Spanish species ; the most characteristic 
are some species of Helix, section Jacosta, among which some are new. 
J. de Conch, xxvi. pp. 213-247. 
Mme. Paulucci has exhibited at Paris her rich collection of Italian 
land-shells and published a catalogue of it (supra), containing a com- 
plete enumeration of all species known to occur in Italy, amounting to 
534, with geographical observations and descriptions of new species ; the 
last also in JB. mal. Ges. v. pp. 355-369. Critical observations by 
Kobelt, JB. mal. Ges. v. pp. 285-287. 
Lombardy. Malacological notes from the environs of Lake d’Idro, by 
V. Gredler, Nachr. mal. Ges. 1878, pp. 17-24. 
Notes on land-shells observed at Genoa, Carrara, and Terni, by W. 
. Kobelt, Nachr. mal. Ges. 1878, pp. 98-101, 117-120. 
List of 46 terrestrial and only two freshwater species collected near 
Ascoli, in Umbria, Middle Italy, by A. Mascarini, with notes on their 
geographical distribution by W. Kobelt ; Nachr. mal. Ges. 1878, pp. 
81-85. 
Pelagosa Island, in the Adriatic. Helix vermiculata, aspersa, variahilis, 
pyramidata, pisana, cellaria, naticoides [aperta'\y Bulimus acutus, B. pupa 
and a peculiar variety of Clausilia gibbula observed by M. Stossich, Boll. 
Soc. Adr. hi. p^ 191. 
Naples. Some species of Hyalina and Helix, subg. Campylcea and 
Macularia, discussed by N. Tiberi, Moll. terr. Nap. (Bruxelles: 1878, 
8vo). 
Thirty-six species of land- shells collected by Enr. d’ Albertis at several 
small and little-known islands of the Mediterranean, as Pianosa, Galita, 
Lampedusa, and some points of Greece and Turkey are enumerated by 
A. Issel, Ann. Mus. Genov, xi. pp. 451-456. 
Greece. Bottger on the known species of Clausilia, sect. Albinaria 
(see infra, in the special part). 
3. Northern and Middle Asia. 
Caucasia. A list of 146 terrestrial and 40 freshwater Mollusca from 
the Caucasus and Transcaucasia, with original notes on many of these, is 
given by O. Schneider in his “ Naturwissenschaftliche Beitrage zur 
Kenntniss der Kaukasus-lander,’’ 1878, pp. 20-30. New Caucasian land- 
shells described by O. Bottger, Nachr. mal. Ges. 1878, pp. 120-124. 
Transcaucasian Clausilice enumerated ; id. Mel. Biol. 1878, pp. 159-198. 
Persia. Some shells collected by W. T. Blanford in Persia, most of 
them near Mazanderan, are mentioned in G. Nevill’s Handlist of the 
Indian Museum, Calcutta, pt. i. 
