BY JOHN BRAZIER, C.M.Z.S. 587 Length 58 mill. ; cliam 28 mill. Hah. Nehone Bay, North West' Coast of New Caledonia. This new and interesting species is quite distinct from any-other form found in New Caledonia, the aperture is not earshaped and is destitute of any denticulaf ion on the columella ; it was found in an old deserted native village named Bonebondia, by my kinsman Mr. George Joseph Rossiter, this year, while selecting land for a plantation. This part of the island is quite new to the collector in all branches ; I express my thanks to the finder for his liberality in sending me eight splendid examples. On the Nomenclature and Distribution of the Genus Pythia, Bolton. By James C. Cox, M.D. The genus Pythia was established \>y Bolton in 1798 in a Catalogue of his private Museum, edited by Roding. The family Auriculacea of Blainville, of which Pythia is one of the genera, bears date 1824. The Auriculidce are, says Pfeiffer, " a family of Mollusca, which breathe the external air by lung-like organs, and have no operculum, and are distinguished from the other families of Pulmonata by the following characters : "The Animal is hermaphrodite; its head terminates in an obtuse, somewhat fringed snout ; tentacles two, rather cylindrical which cannot be retracted like those of Helicidce ; eyes situated near the inner base of the tentacles ; mantle thin with the margin thickened ; foot elongated, bearing on its middle the spiral part of the body." " Shell spiral, variously shaped; pillar generally plaited in all ages ; body of the penultimate whorl usually toothed or plaited ;
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