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taining figures of 95 species (well executed, according to W. Dali). [Not 
seen by the Recorder.]. 
Acapulco , S. Salvador , and Panama. 55 species collected by A. 
Krause, enumerated by E. v. Martens, SB. nat. Fr. 1882, pp. 140 & 141 ; 
some are nearly or quite identical with West Indian, e.g., Columbella 
cribraria. 
8 . Australian Seas. 
Ralph Tate enumerates the species of shells collected by Preiss in 
Western Australia [1838-42], and described by Menke in his “Mol- 
luscorum Novae Hollandise Specimeu,” 1843, giving the original descrip- 
tions and the names now adopted ; he remarks that this faunais essentially 
Indian, and shows conclusively that the tropical forms of Molluscan 
life prevail as far south as Swan River. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vi. 
pp. 387-408. 
Abstract of J. E. Tenison Woods’s paper on the littoral Mollusca of 
N.E. Australia, by the Recorder, in Nachr. mal. Ges. 1882, pp. 91-95. 
Moreton Bay. List of 27 species of Cyprcea ; Brazier, P. Linn. Soc. 
N. S. W. v. pp. 496-502. 
Oysters of New South Wales ; J. Cox, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vii. 
pp. 122-134. 
The known Australian Octopodidce enumerated ; id. op. cit. vi. pp. 
773-789. 
New Zealand. Several additions and corrections to Hutton’s last cata- 
logue of New Zealand Mollusca , from comparison of specimens in the 
British Museum, are given by J. Gillies, Tr. N. Z. Inst.xiv. pp. 1G9-171. 
Anatomical notes on several Cephalopods and marine Gastropods ; F. W. 
Hutton, l. c. pp. 1G2-1G7, pis. vi. & vii. 
Paleontology of Recent Mollusca. 
16 marine species collected in the older alluvial strata at Greifswalde, 
2 of which are no longer found alive in the Baltic, and 7 others do not now 
occur alive in the region; E. Friedel, Nachr. mal. Ges. 1882, pp. 87 & 88. 
Cardium edule (L.) in diluvial strata in Berlin ; id. 1. c. p. 89. 
Diluvial land shells from the Kesslerloch, near Thayingen, Schaff- 
hausen, all recent, including Helix nemoralis (L.) ; Sterki, Nachr. mal. 
Ges. 1882, pp. 67 & 68. 
Helix pulveratrix and pulveratricula, spp. nn., Loss of the Chinese pro- 
vince Kansu, and II. orithyia (Martens, 1879), Loss of the province 
Honan ; Martens, Centr. As. Moll. pp. 16, 17, & 12, pi. ii. figs. 18, 19, 
12 & 13. 
Recent land and fresh-water shells in the Iowa Loss ; R. E. Call, 
Am. Nat. xv. [1881] p. 585. 
In the northern portion of the desert region of Western North Ame- 
rica, once the bed of great tertiary and quaternary lakes, whose eastern 
rim was formed by the Walisatch Mountains, and whose western limit was 
the Sierra Nevada, varieties of Anodonta nuttalliana (Lea) are found in a 
fossilized state, lyiug on the surface, hidden among boulder-shaped masses 
