60 Moll. 
MOLLUSG'A. 
Transplantation of Tapes staminea ; Science, vi. p. 53 (abstr. Nachr. 
mal. Ges. xvii. p. 123). 
Venus mercenaria acclimatised in the Dee; Shrubsole, (334) p. 110. 
Helix cantiana from Quebec ; Latchford, Am. Nat. xix. p. 1111. 
Limax hewstoni is an Amalia, probably gagates ) imported into America ; 
Heynemann, (178) p. 269. See also Jhering, (202) and p. 52, anted. 
Use by Man. 
Use of shells as ornaments, dress, &c.; Chall. Nar. i. pp. 518, 709, 710, 
& 716. 
Use of Hybocystis- shells, filled with perfume, as ornaments ; de Mor¬ 
gan, (270) p. 367. 
Shells of Melania (?) used in the manufacture of lime for chewing 
with betel; id. t. c. 
Conch-shell among insignia of office ; Nature, xxxi. p. 492. 
Pearls . Pearl-fisheries of Tahiti; Bouchon-Brandely, Bull. U. S. 
Fish Comm. v. pp. 292-294. General account of pearls by Rudler, 
Encycl. Brit, xviii. pp. 446-448. A general account of the formation of 
pearls is given by Muller (274). Strombus sometimes produces a beauti¬ 
ful pink pearl, and the shells are imported in large numbers for the 
manufacture of porcelain, and for cutting into cameos ; Tryon (358) 
p. 106. Mode of capture, &c.; Giglioli & Issel, (138) pp. 293-327. 
Purple of Mur ex, t. c. pp. 329-374 ; applications of shells, t. c. pp. 
375-385; culture of oysters, t. c. pp. 387-415 ; and that of other edible 
Mollusca, t. c. pp. 417-433. 
CEPHALOPODA* 
OCTOPODA. 
Pteroti. 
Girroteuthis plena, Martha’s Vineyard, C. megaptera, Chesapeake Bay, 
U.S.A., spp. nn., 1000-2500 fath., Verrill, (367) pp. 404-408, pi. xlii. fig. 3, 
pi. xliii. figs. 1 & 2; also eggs referable to the same genus dredged in 
400-1100 fath., id. t. c. p. 410. C. magna, Southern Ocean (1375 fath.), 
C. meangensis, N. Pacific (500 fath.), G.pacijica, S. Pacific, spp. nn., Hoyle, 
(186) pp. 233-235, (188) pp. 109-112. 
Amphiteetid.®. 
Amphitretus, g. n. Suckers in a single series; interbrachial mem» 
brane very wide; mantle fused with the siphon in the middle line, so 
that there are two openings into the branchial cavity. For A. pelagi- 
* The arrangement in families is that of Fischer, Manuel de Conchyliologie 
(123), except in the Cephalopoda, where a recently-published Catalogue by the 
Recorder has been followed, and in the Nudibranchiata, where Bergh has been 
taken as the authority. 
