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9. Columbella (Anachis) haliceeti, Jeffreys. 



Columbetta corrugata, Hornses, Foss. Moll. "Wien-Beckens, vol. i. p. 120, pi. xi. fig. 8 (as Buccinum 

 corrugatum, Brocchi, but not bis species, which is a Nassa). 

 „ haliceeti, Dr Gwyn Jeffreys, Shetland Dredgings Report, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, 



vol. ii., 186S, pp. 9, 16. 

 „ „ Dr Gwyn Jeffreys, Brit. Assoc. Report, 1SGS, pp. 237-244 (separate impression). 



., „ Dr Gwyn Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., vol. iv. p. 356, pi. vi. fig. 5, vol. v. p. 219, 



pi. lxxxviii. fig. 3. 

 Dr Gwyn Jeffreys, "Triton" Dredgings, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1S83, p. 392, 

 sp. 19, from Station 10. 

 Ptjrene costulafa, G. 0. Sars, Moll. Arct. Norv., p. 252, No. 170, pi. xxiii. fig. 16. 

 Anachis costulafa, Verrill, Cat. Mar. Moll., Trans. Connecticut Acad., vol. v. pt. 2, p. 513, pi. xliii. 



fig. 7. 

 Columbella (Anachis) costulata, Tryon, Manual, vol. v. p. 160, pi. lvi. figs. 77, 79. 



Station II. January 13, 1873. Lat. 38° 10' N., long. 9° 14' W. Setubal. 470 

 fathoms. Green mud. 



Station 75. July 2, 1873. Lat. 38° 38' N., long. 28° 28' 30" W. Fayal, Azores. 

 450 to 500 fathoms. Volcanic mud. 



Habitat. — North Atlantic at great depths; Wellington Channel, Greenland, 35 to 80 

 fathoms ' (Jeffreys), North-west of Norway, 400 fathoms (Sars), New England coast 

 (Verrill). 



Fossil. — From the lower beds of the Upper Miocene in the Vienna basin (Horuses). 



Dr Gwyn Jeffreys (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., loc cit. supra) says that the type-specimen of 

 Columbella costulata, Cantr., with which this species was for a time identified, has been lost, and that 

 from Cantraine's description it is not possible with any certainty to say what his species is. (See 

 Cantraine, Nouv. Especes de Moll., Bull. Acad. Sciences Bruxelles, 1835, pt. 2, p. 393.) 1 It was 

 held, however, to be the same as Buccinum acuticostatum, Phil. 2 



Of that species I have obtained specimens through the kindness of Professor Seguenza. 

 Assuming it to be well identified, I have no doubt that the Buccinum acuticostatum, Phil., is not 

 Columbella haliceeti, Jeffr. I have therefore omitted reference to Monterosato (Enumeraz., p. 44), 

 and to Seguenza (Form. terz. Calab., pp. 259, 353), as the species they had before them was 

 obviously that of Philippi. As to Sars' Norwegian species, there can be no doubt that his 

 description and figure belong to Columbella haliceeti. Tryon (loc. cit.) refers his unrecognisable 

 figure 77 to Gwyn Jeffreys, and his figure 79 to Sars, so there can be no doubt what was the species 



1 Fusus costulatus. — Testa ovata,, ventricosa, subfusiformi, transversim subtillissime striata, longitudinalitor 

 costata, costis confertis flexuosis, apertura elongata edentata, cauda, brevi subascendente. Altitudo 4 lin. Dos 

 terrains tertiaires de Pelore. 



2 Whether this identification is correct I have not the means of determining ; but Cantraine described his 

 species as "apertura edentata," and Philippi 's description and figure (Enum., vol. ii. p. 192, sp. 8, pi. xxvii. fig. 

 14) seem to point in the same direction; but the Calabrian pliocene fossil which has been considered as 

 Philippi's species has the outer lip toothed, and the strong spirals on the whorls do not tally with Philippi's 

 " obsolete transversim sulcata," and " striis transversis obsoletis circa 8." 



