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4. Mediterranean . 
W. Kobelt commences an illustrated work on the European sea shells, 
beginning with the Muricidce [title, supra , p. 6]. 
Bucquoy, Dautzenberg, & Dollfus continue their work on the 
marine Mollusca of Southern France, figuring on five photographic plates 
the Pleurolomidce , 5 species of Mitra , 2 of Cypraa, and 3 of Ovula , the 
Naticidai and Pyramidellidce. For some new generic names, see infra. 
A. F. Marion gives very interesting particulars and lists of Mollusca 
in a general account of the topographical distribution of marine animals 
near Marseilles, and in a subsequent paper on the deep-sea fauna of the 
Mediterranean between Marseilles and Corsica; Ann. Mus. Marseille, i. 
Nos. 1 & 2. 
21 Bivalves found at Carini, near Palermo, by A. de Gregorio, enume- 
rated by Monterosato, Nat. Sicil. iii. pp. 87-91. 
Some marine shells from Gibraltar mentioned by Kobelt, J. of Conch, 
iv. p. 2. 
Gulf of Gabes , Tunisia. 282 species collected by F. de Nerville, enu- 
merated by P. Dautzenberg, J. de Conch, xxxi. pp. 289-330. 
Adriatic. A. Wimmer enumerates 101 species of marine Gastropods 
and 64 Bivalves collected in Istria and Dalmatia, with indication of the 
depths in which they have been found ; Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxxii. 
pp. 255-263. 
Notes and exact descriptions of Mediterranean Nudibranchia observed 
at Trieste by B. Bergii, Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxxii. pp. 7-73, pis. i.-vi. 
148 species dredged by Admiral Spratt, about thirty years ago, off 
Crete in from 70 to 120 fath., some new, determined and enumerated; J. 
Gwyn Jeffreys, Ann. N. H. (5) xi. pp. 393-401, pi. xvi. 
5. East Coast of North America. 
Labrador. 1 Cephalopod, 48 marine Gastropods, and 30 Bivalves 
dredged by the expedition under W. A. Stearns in 1882, and some others 
from Packard’s collections, enumerated by Katharine Bush, P. U. S. 
Nat. Mus. vi. pp. 236-247, pi. ix. 
Florida. 110 marine Gastropods and 33 Bivalves collected by H. 
Hemphill and others, mostly identical with those of the West Indies, 
presenting “ a curious mixture of tropical and temperate forms,” some 
common to the West Coast, and quite a number which present marked 
similarity to species of the West Coast, several new, enumerated by 
W. H. Dall, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. pp. 320 & 322-342, pi. x. 
6. Tropical Atlantic. 
T. Studer states (in a paper on West African Crustacea ) that 55 
species of Gastropods out of 541 known from the West Coast of Africa 
are found also on the opposite coast of America ; he thinks their distri- 
