GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTfON. 
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the Bay of Naples, from three years’ observations, by R. Schmidtlein, 
MT. z. Stat. Neap. i. pp. 132-135. 
J. BrugNone has published two pamphlets, describing some new 
recent and fossil pliocene species from Sicily in 1873 and 1876, which 
have hitherto escaped the knowledge of the Recorder; the new recent 
species will be mentioned in the special part. 
Monterosato enumerates 161 species dredged near Palermo and gives 
critical notes concerning some of them ; J. de Conch, xxvi. pp. 143-160. 
215 species of sea-shells, collected by E. d’ Albertis on his cruise in 
the middle and eastern parts of the Mediterranean, between Genoa, 
Tunis, and Constantinople are enumerated, with indication of the locali- 
ties and depths, by A. Issel, Ann. Mus. Genov, xi. pp. 416-450. 
64 marine species, rather rare and some new, observed on the coast of 
Algeria, enumerated by Monterosato, J. de Conch, xxvi. pp. 313-321, 
chiefly Rissoidoe, Pyramidellidce^ and Bullidce. 
Marine shells from the island Pelagosa, in the Adriatic, mentioned by 
Stossich, Bull. Soc. Adr. hi. p. 192. 
Caspian Sea. Notes on its shells, chiefly taken from Grimm’s work 
[Zool. Rec. xiii. & xiv.], in O. Schneider’s “ Beitrage zur Kenntniss der 
Kaukasus-lander,” pp. 32-34. 
4. East Coast of North America. 
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. List of 105 species dredged there, 
with some general observations and descriptions of apparent new species 
of Buccinum and Bela, by T. A. Verkruzen, JB. mal. Ges. v. pp. 208-230. 
A list of 83 Bivalves and 72 Gastropods from Nova Scotia, most of which 
are Arctic species, by M. Jones, Pr. N. Scot. Inst. iv. pp. 421-430. 
Carolina. 2 species of Cephalopods, 15 Gastropods, 1 Pteropod, and 
14 Bivalves, observed at Fort Macon, North Carolina, by E. Codes & 
H. C. Yarrow, P. Ac. Philad. 1878, pp. 301-303. 
Florida. A paper on marine shells of Florida, by Calkins, in P. 
Davenport Ac. is known to the Recorder only by a quotation of R. 
Stearns, who corrects some determinations in it ; P. Cal. Ac., Apr. 1879. 
5. West Indies and Tropical Atlantic. 
West Indies. A list of 899 species of West India sea-shells, in PouL- 
sen’s catalogue of West India shells, pp. 7-16 ; their determination 
revised by the late O. A. Morch. 
Preliminary notes on the Mollusca obtained during the cruise of the 
U.S. Coast Survey steamer ‘ Blake,’ in the Gulf of Mexico, March and 
April, 1878, by W. H. Ball, Bull. Mus. C. Z. v. No. 6, pp. 60 & 61. The 
shore fauna extends to various depths, but rarely in a living condition 
below 250 fath., the true deep sea species range from 1,920 to 200 fath., 
according to temperature, many of them coming much nearer the surface, 
when the temperature is cool enough, than has commonly been taken for 
granted. Lyonsia hulla, from 1,920 fath., species of Liinopsis, Area, 
1878. [voL. XV.] B 11 
