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All of the molluscan taxa introduced by Heude are included in this paper, as well as the location of those of his type specimens which are known to be in Western museums. Pierre Marie Heude (1836-1902 was a French Jesuit who in 1868 founded l£ Musee de Zikawei (named after a suburb of Shanghai).In 1931 the museum was renamed JLe Musee Heude and transferred to a large new building on the grounds of I' Universite jL'Aurore at 211 Avenue Duboil, Shanghai. Heude was the f^rst director of the museum, and from 1868-1880 made 13 expeditions in the Far East to collect zoological specimens (Courtois, 1906, pp. 4-5, 2nd map). Between the years 1882-1902 Heude described almost 600 species of land and fresh water tjQollusks. Heude sent a niamber of his types to his contemporaries in Germany. These types were eventually deposited in the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfvurt am Main. The gastropods were studied by Yen (1939) aad the bivalves by Zilch (1967). Although Heude published descriptions of new species in the Journal de Conchyliologle , he did not deposit types in its collection nor in the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle , Paris . He sent types to the French collector, Arthur Morelet, but Morelet's collection was sold and dispersed. A number of these Heude types were purchased by the United States National Museum; some by E. Wo Roper of Boston, whose collection went to the Boston Society of Natural History and eventually to the Museum of Comparative Zoology; and several by the British Museum (Natural) History).In 1938 0. Piel, then director, published a 70th anniversary history of the Musee Heude. During the same year he sold to the United States National Museum 460 lots of mollusks, mostly types of species described by Heude,

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