GEOGRAPHICAL DlSTRIBUTrON. 
Moll 2] 
freshwater shell, Paludinclla gilesi, sp. n., from Lake Eyre, by G. F. 
Anoas, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 33 & 170. 
Tasmania. Some notes on its land snails, by W. F. Pettard, J. do 
Conch. XXV. pp. 261-263. 
Amsterdam Island. One terrestrial species only has been found by the 
French Expedition, a small not determined species of Helix ; V41ain, 
Arch. Z. exp^r. vi^ p. 125. 
Kerguelen Island. Helix hooheri (Rv.), is the only terrestrial species ; 
E. A. Smith, Kidder & Studer, 1. c. 
7. America. 
H. C. Yarrow’s Report on the terrestrial and fluviatile Mollusca col- 
lected during Wheeler’s Survey in portions of Colorado, Utah, New 
Mexico, and Arizona (title, supra), contains bibliographical and synony- 
mical references, with localities of 11 species of Helicidce, 5 Fitrinidce, 
3 Sttcciniidce, 11 Physidce, 7 Limnceidce, 2 Planorhidce, 1 Valvatidce, 
1 Viviparidce, 1 Rissoidcc, 1 Cyrenidm, 2 Pisidiidm, and 2 Unionidce. Only 
one species (Anodonta dejecta, described by James Lewis, 1. c. p. 952, 
Arkansas River) is new. Varieties of Helix strigosa, Gould, are referred 
to, including H. Jiemphilli, Newc., hay deni, Gabb, and ? idahoensis, Newc. 
Tryonia (? exigua, Conrad) is also represented, from Utah. 
Florida Keys. Their land shells partly derived from the Southern 
States of North America, partly from the West Indies, with a slight pre- 
ponderance of the latter ; L. F. de Pourtales, Am. Nat. xi. p. 143. 
P. Fischer & H. Crosse have continued their work on the land and 
freshwater Mollusks of Mexico and Central America, treating in the sixth 
part of it, pp. 545-624, the rest of Bulimulus, the genera Simpulopsis, 
CcBcilianella, Opeas, Spiraxis, and the commencement of Leptinaria, the 
plates 25-28 contain also figures of Succinea, Vaginula, Limncea, and 
Physa. New species from Guatemala and Mexico, by Crosse & Fischer, 
J. de Conch, xxv. pp. 271-273. 
, Porto Rico. 11 species of operculate, 40 of inoperculate terrestrial, and 
9 freshwater species, collected by J. Gundlach & L. Krug are enumerated 
and discussed by E. v. Martens, JB. mal. Ges. iv. pp. 340-362 ; some new 
or less known figured, pi. xii. 
Ecuador. 8 new land-shells described by E. A. Smith, P. Z. S. 1877, 
pp. 361-365, pi. xxxix. 
Galapagos. 3 species of Bulimus, and a new Succinea, collected on 
Charles Island by Commodore Cookson ; id. 1. c.p. 12 \ abstract, Nachr. 
mal. Ges. 1877, p. 91. 
A rgentine States. The part of P. Strobel’s “ Malacostatica dell’ Argen- 
tinia ” published in 1877 continues tho introduction to tho special part 
[see Zool. Rec. xii. p. 145], giving a physico-goographical description of 
the country, its plains (Pampas), mountains, rivers, lagoons, etc., and 
finishing with a table of hypsometrical data compiled from various 
sources. 
H. Wejenbergh briefly refers to the Molluscan fauna in R. Napp’s 
“ Die Argentinische Republik” (Buenos Ayres : 1876, 8vo), pp. 170-172. 
