NORTH CAROLINA LAND SHELLS.—The following species of land shells were picked from leaf-mold collected at Spruce Pine, Mitchell Co., North Carolina, by Samuel G. Gordon while on a mineralogical excursion. The specimens are in the collection of the Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., _Gastrocopta contracta_ Say, _G. pentodon_ Say, _Circinaria concava_ Say, _Polita indentata_ Say, _Taxeodonta lamellidens_ Pils., _Gastrodonta elliotti_ Redf., _G. guldaris_ Say, _Euconulus sterkii_ Dall., _Punctum pygmæum_ Drap., _Carychium exile_ Lea.—E. G. VANATTA.
A CORRECTION.—In my little paper, “Descriptions of New West American Marine Mollusks and Notes on Previously Described Forms,” Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 52, pp. 670‒671, plate 46, figure 2, 1917, I published _Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsis) helena_ from Panama, type Cat. No. 204128, U. S. N. M. Mr. Vignal, of Paris, has been kind enough to call my attention to the fact that the same combination was used by O. Boettger in 1901 for a fossil in his contribution “Zur Kenntnis der Fauna der mittelmiocänen Schichten von Kostej im Krassò-Szörényer Komitat,” in “Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenchaften zu Hermannstadt,” p. 128, 1901. It is therefore necessary to bestow a new designation on my shell, and it may be known as _Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsis) anaitis_.—PAUL BARTSCH.
ALBINISTIC EPIPHRAGMOPHORA FIDELIS.—A few days ago, I had two hours in Gladstone Park. The Park is wooded, and there are large moss-covered rocks. _E. fidelis_ was out freely. I found one light one. The one sent you some years ago was uniform in color. This one shows two distinct dark narrow bands around the lower whorl, but not showing anywhere else. This is the fourth one I have found in the Park in twenty years or more, though I have been there often.
The many friends of DR. HERMANN VON IHERING will hear with deep regret that he has been removed by political intrigue from his position of Director of the MUSEU PAULISTA at Sao Paulo, Brazil. This museum was founded by Dr. von Ihering. His eminence as a zoologist and unceasing activity as an investigator of the South American fauna, had won for it an honorable place among scientific institutions. We understand that his successors are men without knowledge of the biological sciences. As the only scientific assistant, Mr. Rudolph von Ihering has resigned, it appears that the scientific activity of the State Museum of Sao Paulo has come to an end—a real calamity to American zoology and paleontology.