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124 MOLLUSCA.
Sicily. The extramarine shells found on and near Mount Etna are briefly
enumerated by A. ARADAS, Att. Soc. Ital. xii. pp. 533-544.
Algeria. LETOURXEUX describes several of his malacological excursions
in Kabylia, Ann. Mal. p. 258.
Cyprus. Some land-shells mentioned by HEYNEMANN, Nachr. mal. Ges. ii.
p. 126.
3. Africa.
Eastern Africa. Some shells collected by the botanical traveller, Georg
Schweinfiu'th, on the banks of the Bahr-el-ghazal and its confluents about
7-8rr° X. lat., system of the White Nile, axe enumerated by the Recorder,
Mal. Bl. xvii. pp. 32-36; among them is a new Planorbis of a rather American
aspect.
Abyssinia. Twenty species of land and 10 of freshwater
shells found during the British expedition (1867-68) in Abyssinia
are enumerated by W T. Blanford in Obs. on Abyss.
pp. 173-477, some of them new, but these neither named nor
sufficiently described. The more remarkable are :—a Helix allied
to subrostrata and pisana, from the limestone tract north of
Antalo, which is said to occur also in Persia; Bulimus olivieri,
Pfr., the finest and commonest land-shell of Abyssinia; an Ennea,
sp. n.; Pupa ccenopicta, Hutt., common to the East Indies and
Senegal; the European Ancylus fluviatilis, Miill.; the widely
spread Melania tuberculata (Miill.) : some species are common
to Natal. The localities and elevations above the sea-level are
carefully given. Pupa insularis, Ehrenb., and Bulimus labiosus
(Miill.), var., arc mentioned as inhabitants of Aden.
These results arc compared with what was otherwise known
concerning Abyssinian shells, in a double list containing about
•19 species, by the Recorder in Mal. Bl. xvii. pp. 82-86.
Bourbon. The hind-shells of this island are reviewed, from his
own observations, by (i. NEVILL, J. A. S.B. xxxix. pp. 401-116.
lie enumerates 11 species: 17 belonging to Helix or Nunhiu, 8 to
Cihhuliita or Eitnt'a,(\ to the opcrculated land-shells, among which
1 of (Jmpliulotropis. Several species established by Deshaycs
in Maillard's l/'ilc Reunion- arc reduced to varieties, and the
occurrence of others doubted. Enneahicolor (Hutt.) and Achatina
punthera (fer.) are supposed to have been introduced by
the agency of man. Several species arc common to Mauritius.
Sou/h-wcstevn Africa. Several land-shells from Danmraland described
and loured by II. Adams, P.Z. S. 1*70, p. 9, pi. 1. ngs, 17, 18, and by L.
l'ieiffer, .Mal. Bl. xvii, p. 30, and Novitat. Conch, iv. pp. 2, 3, pi. 109.
4. Asia.
Samarkand 1-ur species of shells received from Samarcand am noticed
by the K,corder (SB. nat. IV. V. r,