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culum thin and flexible, irregularly striated ; spire extremely 

 short, minute and terminal. L. 0-25. B. 0-085. 



Yar. rufescens. Body white, slightly tinged with brown : 

 snout rather narrow and bilobed : tentacles longish, lanceolate, 

 and set well apart : eyes placed almost centrally at the bases of 

 the tentacles : foot oblong, lanceolate, obtusely angled in front, 

 triangular behind. (F. & H.) Shell longer in proportion to 

 its breadth, and thinner, having the whorls more convex and 

 the ribs crowded and slighter, so as to give a less turreted ap- 

 pearance ; colour more uniformly tawny, with darker bands. 

 Chemnitzia rufescens, (Forbes) F. & H. iii. p. 253, pi. xciv. 

 f. 1, and (animal) pi. FF. f. 6. 



Habitat : Coralline zone, Guernsey (Hanley, Barlee, 

 and J. G. J.), Land's End (Hockin), Dartmouth (M f An- 

 drew), Torquay (Battersby), Exmouth (Clark), Tenby 

 (Lyons), Milford Haven (Forbes and M f Andrew), Good- 

 wick Bay, Pembrokeshire (J. G. J.), Dublin coast (Ball 

 and Warren, fide Thompson, as Eulima Jeffrey sii) . Its 

 foreign distribution extends from Cherbourg (Mace) to 

 Vigo Bay and Gibraltar (M f Andrew), and throughout 

 the Mediterranean, to the iEgean, at depths Varying 

 from 8 to 35 f. The variety has a more northern habi- 

 tat, viz. Lough Strangford (Dickie), co. Antrim (Hynd- 

 man, Waller, and J. G. J.), Aberdeenshire (Macgilli- 

 vray and Dawson), west coast of Scotland, and Shet- 

 land. A specimen of this variety is in Mr. Searles 

 Wood's collection of Crag fossils in the British Museum. 

 Sars has dredged it in Finmark, Danielssen and others 

 in the lower parts of Norway, Loven and Malm in 

 Bohuslan, Totten and Professor Adams in Massachusetts, 

 and Stimpson in New England. These give a bathy- 

 metrical range of 20-60 f. for the European, and 3 f. for 

 the last-named American locality. 



One of my specimens in Mr. Clark's collection from 

 Exmouth has the sculpture of the body-whorl the 

 same as that of the variety, while the sculpture of the 



