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Family : FIROLIDAE Gegenbaur. 



Genus: FIROLA Bruguiere. 

 Firola coronata Forskal. 



Plate 133. 



Type: Not located. Described from specimens from the Mediter- 

 ranean Sea and Archipelago. 



Distribution : Pelagic in the Mediterranean Sea. 



Material examined: Dredged in 500 fms. bottom depth, dredge 

 down 400 fms., St. Raphael bearing S. S. E., distance 9 miles, south 

 of France, Mediterranean Sea, March 23, 1027, by the "Am." 



Color : In life Firola coronata is a semitranslucent pale amber. It 

 is a living poem of gracefulness and evanescent beauty. 



Technical description: Consult Vayssiere, Monaco Fasc. XXVI, 

 p. 33, pi. Ill, figs. 33-41, 1904. 



Firola coronata is one of the largest and loveliest of the Heteropod 

 mollusks; M. Vayssiere 's excellent illustrations and diagnosis of the 

 species render additional description superfluous. 



References: Pterotrachea coronata Forskal, Descript. Animalium, 

 etc. ... in itinere orientali observavit, p. 117, pi. 34, figs. 1-9, 

 1775. — Delle Chiaje, Mem. Anim. senza Vert., atlas, pi. 69, 

 1823-29. 



Firola coronata Vayssiere, Res. Campag. Sci. Monaco, Fasc. XXVI, 

 Mollusques Heteropodes, p. 33, pi. Ill, fig. 33-41, 1904 (diagnosis 

 and synonymy) ; ibid, Fasc. LXXI, Mollusques Heteropodes et 

 Eupteropodes, p. 9, 1927. 



