22 Moll. 
MOLLUSCA. 
h . Marine Mollusca, 
1 . Norihen'n Seas, 
Jeffreys gives a list of 39 Bivalves, 11 Solenoconchce, and 22 Gastro- 
pods, dredged by himself in depths exceeding 1000 fathoms, in the 
“ Valorous ” Expedition. There is no general resemblance between them 
and the shells of the cretaceous period,' the latter being deep water forms. 
Rep. Brit. Assoc., Aug. 1877, address to the Biological Section ; extract 
in, Nachr. mal. Ges. 1877, pp. 87-90. Notes on the Solenoconchce pro- 
cured in the “ Valorous Expedition, id. Ann. N. H. (4) xix. pp. 153-158 ; 
Patellidcey I'rochidoe^ Littorinidoi, Pyramidellidce, &c., of the same Expe- 
dition, id. 1. c. pp. 231-243 j Eulimidm^ Buccinidm^ Muricidoa^ Pleuro- 
tomidoi, Bullidaij Pteropoda, &c., id. 1. o. pp. 317-339. 
Thirty-four species of Mollusca collected by Capt. H. W. Feilden and 
Mr. H. 0. Hart in Davis Straits, Baffin’s Bay, and further north to 
81^^ N. lat., during the Arctic Expedition of 1873-76, are enumerated by 
E. A. Smith, Ann. N. H. (4) xx, pp. 131-146 ; they are all known 
Arctic species, at least 16 of them are also found on the Atlantic coast of 
the United States, only 4 or 5 in European seas. The species from the 
high latitudes, 79-81° N. lat., will be mentioned below- 
Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. List of 92 shells collected by T. A. 
Verkruzen, Nachr. mal. Ges. 1877, pp. 52-57. 
White Sea. Notes on its malacological fauna, Clio horeahs being very 
numerous, by Prof. Wagner, at the meeting of Russian naturalists at 
Warsaw, Sept. 1876 (Z. wiss. Zool. xxviii. p. 385). 
G. O. Sars has published two plates containing good figures of Arctic 
sea-shells of the genera Buccinum, Neptunea^ &c.j illustrating a pamphlet 
on the practical application of autography in zoology, and a new 
autographic method. (Christiania : 1877, 8vo.) 
Northern No'i'way. New or rare marine shells, by Friele, N. Mag. 
Naturv. xxiii. [1876] ; JB. mal. Ges. iv. pp. 257-264. 
List of 114 sea-shells obtained by two days’ dredging at Oban, by 
A. M. Norman, Q. J. Conch. No. 13, pp. 275-279. 
New British Nudibranchiata^ by Gossb, Ann. N. H. (4) xx. p. 316, and 
Norman, tom. cit. pp. 517 & 518. 
Northern French species of Paludestrina and Peringia [saltwater 
species of Hydrobia\ many new^ by Bourghignat, Spec, novissim. moll. 
1876, and Mabille, R. Z- (3) V- pp. 215-220 & 301-309. 
2. Seas of Southern Europe. 
G. Hidalgo has published parts 13 and 14 of his work on the marine 
Mollusks of Spain and Portugal, discussing the Bivalves, and figuring 
species of Trochus^ Area, and Psammobia j a supplement to the biblio- 
graphy is also given. 
E. Dubreuil publishes popular descriptive notes on the Cephalopoda, 
Pteropods, and Gastropods found on the sea-shore of Southern France, 
