GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, PALEONTOLOGY. Moll. 27 
18G5, with notes on their habitats and geographical distribution. P. Z. S. 
1878, pp. 861-871. 
New Zealand and Chatham Islands. F. W. Hutton , reviews the 
known marine Mollusca, enumerating 8 species of Cephalopoda, 1 Ptero- 
pod, 3 Heteropods, 260 Gastropods, and 137 Bivalves, most of which are 
also contained in his former list [Zool. Rec. x. p. 124], adding many 
corrections in synonymy, partly from notes given by the Recorder, and 
giving fresh descriptions of most of his own species. J. de Conch, xxvi. 
pp. 1-57. 
Stewart Island. Note on its marine Mollusca : 791 species known, 131 
the same as in Cook’s Straits, 99 also at Auckland ; Filhol, C. R. Ixxxvi. 
p. 702. 
Auckland Islands. List of known marine shells, 27 species, by F. W. 
Hutton, Tr. N. Z. Inst, xi. pp. 341 & 342. Modiola areolata (Gould), 
Mytilus magelhxn^cus (Gmel.) and latus (Cbemn.), Purpura striata 
(Martyn), Patella iuctuosa (Gould), Trochus spectahilis (A, Adams), and 
some other species, collected by H. Krone, determined, and their analogy 
with northern species, and the distribution of some of them in the 
southern regions, pointed out by E. v. Martens, SB. nat. Fr. 1878, pp. 
20 & 21 . 
Campbell Island. 12 marine species mentioned by F. W. Hutton. 
Tr. N. Z. Inst. xi. pp. 341 & 342. 
Kerguelen Island. New species collected by the Prussian Transit of 
Venus Expedition ; E. v. Martens, SB. nat. Fr. 1878, pp. 21-26. 
Paleontology of Eecent Species. 
1 . hand, and Freshwater Species. 
J. Bourguignat’s Catalogue des Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles 
de Paris a I’epoque quaternaire,” 1869, is discussed by S. Clessin, Mai. Bl; 
XXV. pp. 99-102; 76 species, of which 41 according to the author, but 
only 26 according to Sandberger, are extinct ; all the genera are still 
living in Middle Europe, but two, Belgrandia and Lartetia, are very rare, 
and only occur in more southern countries. 
In the quaternary tufa of La Celle, d^p. Seine-et-Marne, 40 species 
have been found, about half the number of which are still alive in the 
same country, Helix limbata and bidens, Buliminus montanus, and Pomatias 
septem-spiralis are living species, but foreign to the country, the first more 
southern, the three others eastern. Turnouer, Bull. Soc. Geol. (3) v. 
[1877]. 
Helix lapicida (L), Zonites crystallinus (Miill.), Planorbis complanatus 
(L.), found in freshwater molasse strata, near Lyon. Locard, Arch. 
Mus. Lyon, ii. 
Helix yermiculata and aspersa found within Travertin layers on the 
small island of Galita, south of Sardinia. Issel, Bull. Soc. Mai. Ital. iii. 
p. 463. 
Dead shells found copiously in a calcareous tufa near Lake Chad, at 
the northern extremity of the Bahr-el-Rhasal, by Nachtigal, are iden- . 
