GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Moll. 31 
Torbay. 721 Gastropods and 88 Bivalves enumerated by D.Pidgeon, 
Tr. Devon Assoc. 1875, 22 pp. 
Sussex. 5 Cephalopoda, 2 Nudihranchiata, 48 Prosohranchiata, 1 Den- 
talium, and 67 Conchifera enumerated by A. W. Langdon, “ Natural 
History of Hastings and St. Leonards,” 1878. 
Note on the stations of Pholas [see infra], Modiola modioltis and Pur^ 
pura lapillus on the coast of Boulogne, by Bouchard Chant ere aux, J. de 
Conch, xxvii. pp. 122-124. 
Notes on the original specimens of Montagu’s collection by J. G. Jef. 
FREYS, J. of Conch, ii. pp. 1-4. 
Oceanic coast of France. P, Fischer states that 661 species of Moh 
lusks live on these coasts, and about 1000 on the Mediterranean coast ; 
418 are common to both ; 427 are also British ; 60, including several 
Niidihranchia, are not hitherto known either from England or the Medi- 
terranean. He admits three sub-regions of the oceanic coasts of France, 
(1) reg. Normande, or the Channel ; (2) reg. Armoricaine, to the mouth 
of the Loire ; (.8) reg. A(|uitaniquo ou Vasconicnno. Act. Soc. L. Bord, 
xxxii. [1878]; abstract in J. do Conch, xxvii. pp. 377-379, and J. of 
Conch, ii. pp. 350 & 351, 
3 . Mediterranean Sea. 
List of shells dredged off Marseilles by A. F. Marion, with a short 
sketch of the distribution of vegetable and animal life in this part of the 
Mediterranean ; Ann. Sc. Nat. (6) viii. art. 7, pp. 2-4, 6, 7, 11-13. List 
of shells from the shore of Cette by Granger, Act. Soc. L. Bord. hi, 
pp. 235-256. 
One hundred and twenty marine species found in sponges collected on the 
coast of North Africa enumerated by A. de Monterosato, Bull. Soc. mal. 
Ital. V. pp. 213-233 ; albino specimens observed in 49 of these species, 
melanism in 15, yellow varieties in 12. Note on a few marine shells from 
Tripoli by Von Martens, SB. nat. Fr. 1879, p. 73. 
Twenty-eight marine species (all well known as Mediterranean) col- 
lected on the coast of the Troas by R. Virchow, enumerated by Von Mar- 
tens, SB. nat. Fr. 1879, pp. 88 & 89. 
Sixteen species of Chitonidcc of the Mediterranean, enumerated and 
discussed by T. A. Monterosato, Enumerazione e sinonimia delle con- 
chiglie Mediterranee, pt, ii. No. 1 (Giorn. Sc. Palerm. xiv. pp. 9-31). 
4 . Fast Coast of North America. 
Maine. Several new or little-known m.2LYva.Q Mollusca by Verrill; 
Am. J. Sci. (3) xvii. pp. 241-243, 311-315. 
Virginia. 1 Cephalopod, 13 Gastropods, and 17 Bivalves observed at 
Fort Wool, enumerated by P. R. Uhler, Chesapeake zool. laborat. 1878, 
pp. 18-24, with notes on their occurrence. 
