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MOLLUSCA. 
characteristic and nearly peculiar to New Guinea ; as are the genera 
Calycia and Perrieria. The other genera and subgenera of land shells 
are about the same as in the Malayan Archipelago, but Amphidromus is 
entirely wanting. The distribution of each species in the different parts 
of New Guinea and in other countries is given, in special tables for each 
family. Ann. Mus. Genov, xix. 313 pp., 11 pis. 
Several species of Helix from D’Entrecasteaux Island, off the south- 
east of New Guinea, including 4 new, by E. A. Smith, Ann. N. H. (5) 
xi. pp. 190-192. 
Solomon Islands and New Hebrides. Several Melaniidce and Neritince 
mentioned by J. Brazier, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. viii. pp. 294-296. 
Central Australia. 3 species of Physa , 1 Paludina , 1 Tryonia [P], and 
1 Anodonta , found in Cooper’s Creek, not named, but figured. The 
Gastropods die when the water dries up, but each flood stocks the creek 
again by bringing down young ones ; the Anodonta survives by burying 
itself in the mud, and is eaten by the natives. E. B. Sanger, Am. Nat. 
xvii. pp. 1184 & 1185. 
New Zealand. Descriptions of 16 new land shells, including 2 new 
genera, by F. W. Hutton, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xv. pp. 134-140. 
12 . North America. 
Port Clarence , N.W. extremity of America, Bering’s Island, and 
Japan. Some new species collected during Nordenskiold’s expedition, 
described by C. A. Westeiilund, Nachr. mal. Ges. 1883, pp. 48-59, 
165, & 166. 
South-Eastern Alaska. 16 species of land shells collected, most of them 
extending to California ; Aur. Krause, SB. nat. Fr. 1883, pp. 35-37. 
Canada. 14 species of XJnio (1 new), 3 of Margaritana , and 10 of 
Anodonta , enumerated by F. R. Latchford, Ottawa Nat. Club, iii. 
pp. 48-57. Descriptive notes on shells found at Ottawa by H. B. Small 
& P. B. Symes, l. c. pp. 57-59. [Neither seen by Recorder.] 
United States. W. G. Binney gives a supplement to vol. v. of his 
Terrestrial air-breathing Mollusks of the United States, published in 
1878, containing all the additional information relating to the subject, 
with several new figures of shells and radulae, and a new systematic list 
of all known species ; Bull. Mus. C. Z. xi. No. 8, pp. 135-166, pis. i.-iv. 
American localities of Limax maximus (L.) ; A. F. Gray, Am. Nat. 
xvii. p. 105, and J. H. Pillsburg, Science, ii. p. 278, and Am. Nat. xvii. 
p. 427. 
Geographical distribution of the species of Campeloma (or Melantho 
of most authors) in North America ; R. E. Call, Am. Nat. xvii. pp. 
606 & 607. 
Margaritana margaritifera (L.). Its geographical distribution in North 
America sketched by A. F. Gray, Am. Nat. xvii. pp. 324-326. 
Ohio. The literature of its shells collected by Arthur Gray, J. 
Cincinn. Soc. vi. pp. 39-53. 
Colorado Desert and farther east. R. Stearns gives some particulars 
concerning Tryonia protea and Physa humerosa found on the surface of 
