32 Moll . 
MOLLUSCA. 
Alphonse Miln e-Edwards, Bull, hebdomad, de 1’ Association scientif. 
de France, Dec. 1883. 
J. Gwyn Jeffreys continues his paper on the shells procured during 
the ‘ Lightuiug * and ‘ Porcupine * Expeditions, 18G8-70, in the Atlantic 
and Mediterranean, treating of the Scissurellidce, Trochidce, Turbinidce , 
and Littorinidce. There are several species now found alive in the depths, 
which had been previously only known as fossil from subapennine 
strata; P. Z. S. 1883, pp. 88-115, pis. xix. & xx. 
2 . Arctic Seas. 
Northern Coast of Siberia. Preliminary account of the Mollusca 
observed during Nordenski old’s Expedition along the northern coast of 
Asia, by A. Stuxberg in ‘ Vega’-Expeditionens Yetenskapeliga Iakttagel- 
ser, vol. i. 1882, pp. 695-715, 734, 736, 740, 741, & 793-800. There is no 
proper littoral fauua, but animal life begins no higher than at about 
3 fath., the higher parts of the shore being too much under the changing 
influence of the ice ; Novaya Zemlya makes a distinct limit in the geo- 
graphical distribution of several species. 42 species of Bivalves, 1 new, 
and several new varieties, collected during the ‘ Vega’ Expedition, are 
enumerated and described by W, Leche in the same work, vol. iii. 
pp. 433-453, pis. xxxii.-xxxiv. ; tho following are more gouerally dis- 
tributed beneath the mouth of the Yenisei and Bering Strait : — Cyrto- 
daria hurriana (Dkr.), Tellina lata_ (6m.), Astarte sernisulcata var. 
placenta (Morch), A. warhami (Hanc.), Yoldia arctica (Gray), Area 
glacialis (Gray), and Modiolaria Icevigata (G ray). 
Some species from the same Expedition mentioned by J. Gwyn J ef- 
freys, with indication of the depths ; Ann. N. H. (5) xii. p. 119. 
Varanger Fjord. Abstract of the paper by G. Pouciiet and J. de 
Guerne in Ann. N. H. (5) xi. p. 221. 
3 . Seas of Northern Europe. 
Faroe Channel. J. Gwyn Jeffreys enumerates the shells dredged 
between the Hebrides and Faroes by J. Murray in H.M.S. ‘Triton’ in 
1882 ; most species found in the “ warm area ” have an extensive range in 
the North Atlantic, those found in the “ cold area ” are mostly northern, 
some arctic ; several new species are described and figured. P. Z. S. 
1883, pp. 389-399, pi. xliv. 
Belgian Coast. Some rather rare species of Mollusca mentioned by P „ 
Pelseneer, Ann. Soc. mal. Belg. xvii. pp. 33-39. 
Jersey. Interesting observations concerning the occurrence of rare 
species in the deeper part of the littoral zone, and list of 77 species found 
there; E. Duprey, Ann. N. H. (5) xi. pp. 185-189. 
Brest. 153 marine Bivalves, 345 Gastropods, 2 Pteropods, and 8 Cepha- 
lopoda enumerated, with several biological notes, by F. Daniel, J. de 
Conch, xxxi. pp. 224-263. 
