GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 
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Seven species of Galatea found in the rivers Bengo and Quanza 
(Angola), 4 new, are described by F. de Brito Oapello in a separate 
pamphlet. 
South Africa^ Transvaal, and Natal. New species of Achatina by 
Edgar A. Smith, Q, J. Conch. 1878, No. 16, pp. 346-352. 
5. Southern Asia. 
G. Nevill’s Handlist of the India Museum, Calcutta, pt. i. contains 
much valuable information on the terrestrial and air-breathing fresh- 
water Mollusca of British India and the adjacent regions, as to synonymy ^ 
systematic arrangement, and geographical distribution ; the shells found 
by the late Dr. Stoliczka in his voyage to Yarkand are included. The 
new species are mentioned below. 
Twenty-seven species of terrestrial Mollusca collected by the late Dr. 
Stoliczka in Kashmir and the Northern Punjab, including some new, all 
of Indian type, are enumerated, and respectively described by G. Nevill 
in “ Scientific Results of the Second^ Yarkand Expedition,” Mollusca, pp. 
14-21, with some notes on the synonymy and Hutton’s types of Hima- 
layan land-shells. 
The shells collected by J. Anderson during the Yunnan Expedition 
are enumerated in his “ Anatomical and Zoological Researches,” pp. 873- 
903, pi. Ixxx. by G. Nevill ; the new species have been already described 
by the latter in J. A. S. B. 1877, but are figured here for the first time, 
the most remarkable is the genus Margarya [Zool. Rec. xiv. Moll. pp. 20 
& 42.] 
Ceylon, Nicohars, and the islands of the Malayan Archipelago. W. 
Kobelt discusses their malacological fauna and gives lists of the known 
species of land and freshwater species, drawn from published works. JB. 
mal. Ges. v.'pp. 322-350. 
6. Australian Region. 
New land-shells from New Guinea, including the new genus Perieria, 
by Tapparone-Canefri, 0. R. Ixxxvi. p. 1149 ; also Ann. N. H. (5) ii. 
p. 111. 
New Guinea and Solomon Islands. Notes on their land-shells from 
personal observation, by W. G. Petterd, Q. J. Conch. 1878, No. 17, 
pp. 394-398. 
New Caledonia. New land and freshwater shells by Gassies, J. de 
Conch, xxvi. pp. 330-347. 
Australia. Species of the genus Lirnnoea found in Queensland ; A. 
Brown, Ann. N. H. (5) ii. p. 493. 
New Zealand. New slugs by F. W. Hutton, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xi. pp. 
331 & 332. 
Tasmania. Notes on its land-shells by W. G. Petterd, 1. c. No. 17, 
p. 399. 
