GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 
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9 . Southern Asia. 
Malayan Peninsula. Some new terrestrial shells, collected by Dr. E. 
Townsend, described by H. Crosse, J. de Conch, xxvii, pp. 198-208. 
List of 6 inoperculate and 13 operculate land shells from thence ; id. 1. c. 
pp. 336-340. Several new small land shells from Perak, described by 
Godwtn-Austen & Nevill, P. Z S. 1879, pp. 734-740, pis. lix. & lx. 
Andaman Islands. L. de Foi^in begins a publication on the Mollusks 
of these islands, not seen by the llecordcr. 
Philipi>ines. General remarks and lists of their land and freshwater 
Mollusca] by Kobelt, JB. mal. Ges. vi. pp. 195-197 & 205-212. 
10 . Australian Region. 
New Guinea. 28 species of terrestrial, 12 of freshwater, 11 of sub- 
marine Gastropods {Auriculidcp^, and 1 freshwater Bivalve, collected by 
Raffray, at Port Dorey, enumerated by Tapparone-Canefri, Bull. Soc. 
Z. Fr. iii. [1878] pp. 264-267, 269-274, & 276. New species, by Brazier, 
P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. pp. 25 & 120 ; by J. E. T. Woods, op. cit. iv. 
pp. 24 & 25; and by Cox, tom. cit. p. 114. 
New Ireland and Duke of York Island. Some land shells, indicated by 
E. P. Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1876, p. 577. 
New Caledonia. New land and freshwater shells, by J. B. G assies & 
R. P. Montrouzier, j. de Conch, xxvii. pp. 125-136. 
Pelew, Caroline., Padrone, and Sandwich Islands, Tahiti, Paumotus, 
Marquesas, and Gamhier Islands, Rapa (or Opara), Pitcairn, CooPs, 
Tonga, Samoa, Ellice, and Kingsmill Islands. General remarks, and 
lists of their land and freshwater Mollusca, by Kobelt, JB. mal. Ges. vi. 
pp. 201-205 & 216-224. 
Rurutu {Tuhuai or A ustral Group'). 23 species of land shells (8 new), 
by A. Garrett, P. Ac. Philad. 1879, pp. 17-30. 
Australia. New species, by Brazier, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 25, 
iii. pp. 77-80, pi. viii. ; by R. Tate, op. cit. ii. p. 290 ; and by J. E. T. 
Woods, op. cit. iii. pp. 123-125. 
Tasmania. W. F. Petterd has published a monograph of the land 
shells, enumerating and describing 68 species of Helix, two of which, H. 
cellaria (Miill ) = sydneyensis (Cox) and II. pulchella (Mull.) = alex- 
andrce (Cox), are introduced from Europe ; also 2 Bulimus [subg. Caryodes 
(Albers)], 2 Succinea, 3 Vitrina, and 6 Truncatella \ no species of Pupa, 
Tornatellina, Pupina, or Ilelicina has been found, although these genera 
are well represented even in South Australia. 
Critical note on pretended Tasmanian Helix, by W. Legrand, J. of 
Conch, ii. p. 95. 
A former previous paper by Legrand, “ Collections for a Monograph 
of Tasmanian Land Shells” [published about 1871?], has never been 
seen by the Recorder, but the very numerous new species contained in it 
will be mentioned below, as they can be gathered from Petterd s work. 
Lists of Tasmanian freshwater shells, mostly new, by J. E. T. Woods, 
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