NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 253 June-July-Aug. 1979 Page 3 
at the Corpus Christi Museum. 
Pre-registration through June 30, $15; after July 1, $18. Banquet 
$12. Field trips are planned for August 10 @ $3 except for the 
SCUBA - 0i1 Rigs @ $25 which will have the equipment furnished. 
HP diosa nape” banquet, and field trip reservations are being handled 
y Mr. Carl T. Young, Jr., 621 Chase, Corpus Christi, Texas 78412. 
If you are not yet a member of AMU or WSM and plan to attend, we 
Suggest you contact Bill Old re: obtaining the general information 
and reservation forms. 
And do plan to attend. dr 
GENEVIEVE WAGNER 
We were sorry to learn of the death last February of "Gene" Wagner 
of Marathon, Florida, known in Florida's Shell Show circuit as a 
competent judge of artistic divisions and to us personally as a 
most gracious hostess. 
Our sympathies are extended to her husband, Robert J. L. Wagner. 
dr 
MALACOLOGY IN THE SOVIET UNION 
A great deal of work in malacology is being done in the Soviet 
Union. Not everyone in the field seems to be aware of it. The 
following results may prove of interest to our readers. 
(1) New species of bivalves from the Red River Delta, the Fai-Tsi- 
Long Archipelago, and Hainan Island (all in the Gulf of Tonkin) 
were described by I. P. Zorina in Transactions of the Institute of 
Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of USSR (Tr. In-ta zoolog., Akad. 
Nauka, SSSR), vol. 61, pp. 193-208, 1977: 
Phacoides scarabatoi Pillucina vietnamica Codakia golikovi 
Pitar levis Diplodonta gur janovae Raeta lactea 
Pitar sulcata Moerella fragilis Gari tonkinensis 
(2) A new fasciolariid genus and species was discovered in 414 me- 
ters east of Iturup Island, and named and described by A. N. Golikov 
as Costaria borealis in Studies in Marine Fauna (Issled. fauny 
moryei), 21/29, pp. 102-104, 1977. This find is very important be- 
cause, as the author says, "This is the first fasciolariid discov- 
ered in temperate waters gf the Northern Hemisphere." (Iturup, 
Lat. N. 45°, Long. E. 148°, is one of the southernmost of the 
Kuril Islands, formerly Japanese Etorofu. --Hd. 
(3) A new genus in Naticidae, Scarlatia (type species Natica for- 
tunei Reeve, 1856) was described by A. A. Shileiko in Transactions 
of the Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of USSR 
(fr. In-ta okeonol., AN SSSR) vol. 108, pp. 79-97. In the same _ 
paper the author treats the genus Polinices as a full family, roli- 
nicidae, and separates it from Naticidae, where it is usually 
Placed, on the basis of strong differences in the sexual apparatus, 
mainly in the penis construction. 
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