GEOGRAPHTCAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Moll 19 
collected by Dr. O. Finsch on the banks of the Obi, 01°-GG'’ N. lat. 
Some other European species of Limnccd and Anodonta in South- 
Western Siberia, ^1. ^^scma/^s in Lake Saisan, and Limnma stagnalis, 
palustriSf ovata, Planorhis marginatus, spirorhis (Rossm., x= daziiri, 
Morch), Bithynia leachi, and Valvata piscinalis in Lake Alakul, Helix 
rubens and semenowi (Mart.) on the mountain Alatau. Martens, SB. nat. 
Fr. 1877, pp. 237-242. 
Some scattered notes concerning terrestrial shells at the banks of the 
Yenissei river are to be found in H. Thi^iel’s “Relation de Texpedition 
Suedoise de 1876 au Yenissei.” Upsala : 1877, pp. 14, 19, & 33. 
Persia. Some freshwater-shells collected by O. Fritsch, SB. nat. Fr. 
1877, pp. 196 & 200. 
Japan. Notes on small terrestrial shells, Hyalina^ Helix^ Pupa, Cary- 
chium, Alycmus, some new, by Reinhardt, JB. mal. Ges. iv. pp. 313-325, 
pis. ix.-xi., and SB. nat. Fr. 1877, pp. 67-71. A list of 58 terrestrial and 24 
freshwater species, collected by Dr. Hilgendorf and W. Donitz in Japan, 
chiefly near Yeddo, but also at Hakodade, containing some now species, 
with some general remarks on the circumpolar, North-eastern and 
South-eastern Asiatic affinities of the Japanese fauna, by E. v. Martens, 
SB. nat. Fr. 1877, pp. 97-123. 
China. New species of freshwater bivalves from the provinces of 
Nanking and Honan by Heude, Conch, fluv. de Nanking, fasc. iii. 
pis. xvii.-xxiii. 
4 . Africa. 
General notes on the insular faunas of land shells generally, and 
especially those of the Azores, Madeira, Canaries, and Cape Verde 
Islands, with lists of the known species, by W. Kobelt, JB. mal. Ges. iv. 
Central Africa. Planorhis rueppelli (Dkr.), Isadora contorta (Mich.), 
Limncea natalensis (Krauss), and Melania tuberculata (Miill.), found near 
Kuka, Bornu, by G. Rohlfs; Martens, SB. nat. Fr. 1877, p. 242. 
Lake Nyassa. 25 species of freshwater-shells enumerated, many new, 
collected by F. A. Simons, and described by E. A. Smith, P. Z. S. 1877, 
pp. 712-719. They belong to the genera Melania (including the widely- 
spread M. tuberculata, Mull.), Lanistes, Paludina, Bithynia, and Physa. 
Ascension Island. Helix similaris (F<5r.) is the only known land shell ; 
Martens, SB. nat. Fr. 1877, pp. 14 & 15, and MB. Ak. Berl. 1877, p. 271. 
Zanzibar. Nine apparently new land shells described by J. W. 
Taylor, Q. J. Conch. No. 12, pp. 251-255, pi. ii. and No. 13, pp. 280-283, 
pi. iii. 
Comoro Islands. 22 terrestrial and 6 freshwater species collected on 
the island Anjoana by M. Bewsher, described by A. Morelet, some new, 
with a list of all known, J. do Conch, xxv. pp. 325-347, pis. xii. & xiii. 
Madagascar. 19 terrestrial and 7 freshwater shells, some of them 
new, from Ekongo on the South-east coast of Madagascar, enumerated 
by G. F. Angas, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 527 & 528; new species of Helix, id. 
1. c., pp. 803-805, pi. Ixxx. ; new land shells by A. Morelet, J. de Conch, 
xxv. pp. 217-219. 
