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Central China. New land shells from Inkiapo in the southern Tsin- 
ling, and from the province Se-chuan, by Ancey, Le Nat. iv. No. 6, 
pp. 44 & 45, and No. 8, pp. 59 & 60, and by Bottger, Nachr. mai. Ges. 
1882, p. 69. 
Middle China. P. M. Heude (title above) describes and figures a large 
number of terrestiial shells collected in the valley of the Yangtsekiang> 
in the. Chinese provinces Hupe, Hunan, Kiangsi, Nganhwe, aud Kiangsu’ 
many of which are new species. The localities appear to be given very 
accurately, and the figures drawn in China by no special artist are 
recognizable and very meritorious, so that this paper is a very valuable 
contribution to Chinese malacology. The new species will be mentioned 
infra. 
Abstract and critical notes on the same by Crosse ; J. de Conch, xxx. 
pp. 134-137. 
V. Gredler enumerates the hitherto known jland and fresh-water 
shells of China, 141 terrestrial and 27 fresh-water, a few of them new ; 
Mai. Bl. (2) v. pp. 165-187. He also gives some additions to a former 
paper on the snails of the province Hunan, and a list of 9 species 
collected by P. Zeno Meitner near Sinanfu, province Shantung ; JB. mal. 
Ges. ix. 38-50. The same new species are described in both papers. 
O. v. Mollendorff reviews the known operculated land shells of 
China, 32 species, with critical notes ; JB. mal. Ges. ix. pp. 251-278 & 
337-356. 
List of fresh-water shells found near Ningpo by A. Fauvel, Mem. Soc. 
Cherbourg (2) xxiii. [1881] pp. 179-181 & 197. 
Province Quantung , Futsan , Hainan and Macao. Several new land 
shells, including some very peculiar, described by 0. v. Mollendorff, 
JB. mal. Ges. ix. pp. 179- 188. 
Hongkong. 33 species of land shells enumerated by Eastlake, P. Ac. 
Philad. 1882, pp. 231-236. 
Japan. 23 species of Clausilia collected by R. Hungerford in Japan, 
among which are 12 new, by O. v. Mollendorff, J. A. S. B. li. pt. 2, 
pp. 1-13, pi. i. figs. 1-10. 
12 . India. 
British India. H. H. Godwin-Austen begins a new work on the Land 
and Fresh-water Mollusca of India including South Arabia, the Malay 
Peninsula and some islands of the Indian Ocean, supplementary to Theo- 
bald & Hanley’s “ Conchologia Indica.’’ The two first parts published 
Feb. and July, 1882, treat the genera Kaliella, Microcystina, Cryptosoma , 
Sitala , Sagdinella , Anadenus , and IIya[lo~\limax. He also publishes some 
figures of living specimens of Nanina , drawn by the late F. Stolibzka, 
J. A. S. B. li. pt. 2, pp. 68-72, pi. v. 
13 . Australia. 
New Caledonia. Review of the known species of Helix and allied forms, 
by an anonymous author in Le Nat., 1882, pp. 85-87. 
Continent of A ustralia. E. A. Smith gives a very valuable paper on 
