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MOLLUSCA.
The sea-shells of the coast of Granville are enumerated. G. Servain,
Ann. Mal. pp. 77-104.
Jordan's Catalogue of British Mollusca is a simple list of names, indicating
the varieties, compiled from Jeffreys's' British Conchology,' and printed
on one side only for labels.
2. Mediterranean Sea.
II. C. WEINKAUFF has published supplementary notes to his general work
on the shells of the Mediterranean (see Zool. Rec. iv. pp. 448 & 514). Several
species are added, others which had been regarded doubtful are identified
with well-known ones, and some names changed on account of priority.
Bid! mal. Ital. iii. pp. 14-24, 33-37, 74-100, 128-139.
The drawings of Adriatic Mollusca (1272 figures, including some Annelids,
Cirripeds, and numerous land and freshwater shells) left by STEFANO
CHLEREGHINI, who died at Chioggia near Venice in 1820, at the Lyceum S.
Catarina in Venice, have been determined by S. BRUSINA ; and a rather
verbose account of them is published by the latter in 280 pages, repeating
all the manuscript names which have been never published before (for example,
Turbo maritimus for Chcmnitzia scalaris, Phil). It is astonishing to
see the number of species (249) known to him; and some interest may be
found also in the accompanying notes of the MSS., which state the localities,
and have been printed word for word by the editor. The species which
have not before been ascertained to live in the Adriatic are enumerated
(pp. 34-38) ; two only have been hitherto observed on the western and not
on the eastern side, they are Corbulomya meditevvunea (Costa) and Litorina
saxatilis (Olivi, not Johnst.).
The muddy grounds at Sinigaglia have been explored with an improved
dredge by A. Manzoni; these are very poor in mollusks, being devoid of
vegetation; Tavvitdlu, Chenopus [Aporrhais], Philine, Akera, Dentalium,
Nation yuillcmini, Doris, Tethys, Sepia, and Loligo are the only genera which
have been found, most of them very numerous. The author insists that all
must feed on animal matter. Bull. mal. Ital. iii. pp. 11-14.
The marine mollusks found at Cape Pinede, near Marseilles, are enumerated
by F. Ancey, Ann. Mal. pp. 244-257.
The recent marine shells found at and near Catania are enumerated by A.
Aradas, Att. Soc. Ital. iii. pp. 533-544. The short littoral tract between
Catania and Riposto, and chiefly that of Aci-Trezza, is extraordinarily rich
in sea-shells, some of them very rare, or not found hitherto elsewhere (for
example, Panopeea glgeijinevis) ; the sandy shore next Catania, on the contrary,
is rather poor.—The Sicilian species described in 1840 and 1H41 as
new by Prof. C. Maravigna, and always regarded as more or loss doubtful,
have been examined by L. Benoit and A. Aradas from original specimens,
and identified, except one, with well-known ones. Att. Soc. Ital. iii. 1K09,
and Bull. mal. Ital. iii. p. fl(i.
A large number of shells dredged in the Mediterranean by Captains Spratt
and Nares, in various depths, some of 100 fathoms and more, are enumerated
by Jell'reys Ann. X. II. (4) vi. pp. 65-80. Besides several new species, they
contain others known hitherto only in a fossil state—for example, Verticordia
graiii/lata, Astarteparva, &c.