44 Moll. 
MOLLUSCA. 
Melanatria (Bowdich), some species figured, but not yet described, by 
Brot, 1. c. part 271, pi. xlii. 
Hemisinus (Swains.). Monograph of this genus ; 36 species described, 
including as new H. martorellii^ Cuba, muzensis, Colombia, planogyrus, 
Lima, schneideriy Marahon, and distortus^ locality unknown, Brot, 1. c. 
part 271, pp. 367-399, pi. xxxviii -xli. [The author continues to place 
the European Melanopsis acicularis (For.) in the same genus with the 
typical South American species, which the Recorder thinks very 
artificial.] 
Paludomus hurmanica (Nevill, 1877), Anderson, Zool. Researches during 
the Yunnan Expedition, p. 895, pi. Ixxx. fig. 2, Yaylaymaw. 
Paludomus grandidieri (Crosse & Fischer, 1872), Madagascar, figured 
by the authors, J. de Conch, xxvi. pi. i. figs. 3 a-c. 
Paludomus africana and exarata^ spp. nn., Martens, MB. Ak. Berl. 
1878, p. 297, pi. ii. figs. 11-16, Finboni, coast of Zanzibar. [Perhaps con- 
generic with Cleopatra hulimoides.~\ 
LlTORlNID^. 
Litorina. H. C. Weinkauff continues Kiister’s monograph of this 
genus, with additions to the species described, and description of other 
known species ; Conch. Cab. part 269, pp. 25-40. 
Litorina litorea ilj.), rialis (Donov.). var. groenlandica, j^alliata (Say), 
and obtusata (L.), radula ; Sars, Moll. arct. Norveg. pi. vi. figs. 3-6 ; oper- 
culum of L. rudiSy pi. xviii. fig. 15. 
Litorina palliata (Say) distinct from obtusata ; Verkriizen, JB. mal. 
Ces. V. p. 350. 
Litorina intermedia (Phil.) and angulifera (Lam.) live in mangrove 
swamps, in brackish water, the specimens become less solid as the water 
in which they live is less salt ; J. S. Gibbons, Q. J. Conch. 1878, No, 15, 
pp. 339 & 340. [The occurrence of L. scabra, L., on the leaves of man- 
groves was indicated by Rumph, in his “ Amboinsch Rariteitkamer,” 
p. 98, under the name of Buccinum foliorum^ and has been also observed 
by the Recorder in Mal. Bl. 1863, p. 80.] 
Littorina beccarii^ sp. n., Tapparone-Canefri, Ann. Mus. Genov, vii. 
[1875], p. 1031, Sorong, N.W. New Guinea. 
Tectaria montrouzieri^ sp. n., P. Fischer, J. de Conch, xxvi. p. 212, Art 
Island, New Caledonia. 
Lacuna divaricata (Fabr.), siad. pallidula (Dacosta), radula, Sars, Moll, 
arct. Norveg. pi. vi. figs. 7 & 8; operculum of the latter, pi. xviii. ^ 
fig. 16. 
Fossarus granulum, sp. n., Brugnone, Miscell. Mal. i. [1873] pi. xiii. 
fig. 25, Trapani. 
PlesiotrochuSj g. n. “ Testa imperforata, conico-elongata, non vari- 
cosa ; anfractus numerosi ; apertura subrhombea, intus laevigata, hand 
margaritacea, ad basin in canalem brevem producta, labro medio sub- 
rostrato, columella siraplici, edentata.” P. souverbianus, sp. n., Fischer, 
J. de Conch, xxvi. p. 212, Lifu Island, Loyalty Archipelago.. 
Raulinia (Mayer, J. de Conch, xii., 1864, p. 180) badia^ sp. n., J. E. 
