30 Moll. 
MOLLUSCA. 
off Martha’s Vineyard in 1880-81, 9 Cephalopods, G3 Gastropods, 1 
Pteropod, and 24 Bivalves ; with several new species, by A. E. Verrill, 
P. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. pp. 315-343. Two living species of Capulus hun- 
garicus (L.), hitherto only known from Europe, have boon found there 
in G9 & 458 fatli. Result of dredgings in 1882, with some new specios; 
id. Am. J. Sci. (3) xxiv. pp. 364-366. Surface dredging in Vineyard 
Sound, l. c. p. 371 : abstract in Am. Nat. xvi. p. 56. 
Verrill continues his researches on the Cephalopods of the East Coast 
cf North America ; Tr. Conn. Ac. v. pp. 259-446, pis. xxvi.-lvi. List of 
species found on the coast of New England since 1870; id. 1. c. p. 450: 
abstract in Am. Nat. xvi. p. 233. 
5. Tropical Atlantic. 
Species common to the African and American Coasts are found only 
among the littoral animals, the larvae of which can be carried by currents 
to considerable distances, but not in depths from 35-100 fath., where North 
Atlantic and Mediterranean forms prevail ; T. Studer, Zool. Anz. 1882, 
p. 353. 
West Africa. 25 species of marine Mollusca dredged on tho West Coast 
of Africa between 10° N. and 6° S. lat. in 37-150 fath., 11 of which are 
also known from the Mediterranean, and 4 species from depths exceeding 
100 fath. ; id. 1. c. pp. 335, 336, 351-355 & 522. 
Loanda. Some general notes on sea shells by E. Peciiuel-Loesche, 
Nachr. mal. Ges. 1882, p. 185. 
West Indies. The known and some new species of Nacula and Led a 
enumerated by Leciimere Guppy, P. Sc. Assoc. Trinidad, xii. 1881-82. 
6. Indian and Polynesian Seas. 
Bed Sea. Several new species by C. Jickeli, JB. mal. Ges. pp. 
367-370. 
New Caledonia. 60 species of Cyprceidce enumerated by R. Rossiter, 
P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vi. pp. 817-831. 
7. Norther 7i Pacific. 
Japan. W. Dunker has published a very valuable special work on the 
marine Mollusca of Japan (title above), enumerating all known species, 
describing and figuring many new or little known, and giving various 
useful remarks concerning several others ; the collections made in Japan 
by J. Rein, E. Satow, and D. Brauns have supplied valuable material for 
this work. In some species distinct localities, and even Japanese names 
of the shells, are given ; the species which are new, or not figured before, 
will be mentioned in the special part. 
Some notes on the occurrence of marine Mollusca in the Bay of Yeddo 
and Sagamiby Doderlein, Arch. f. Nat. xlix. pp. 103, 107, 1 10, 111 & 119; 
several tropical specios are offered for sale at Enoshima, but do not live 
there, they come from the Bonin or Liukiu Islands, p. 108. 
J. Keep, “ Common Sea Shells of California,” 74 pp. and 16 pis., con- 
