The Nautilus. 



Vor>. XXIII. OCTOBER, 1909. No. 6 



A NEW BEL A FROM FRENCHMAN'S BAY, MAINE. 



BY KATHARINE J. BUSH, PH. D. 



Bela blaneyi, sp. nov. Fig. 1. 



Type locality — South of Egg Rock buoy in about 30 fathoms 

 mud and gravel, Frenchman's Bay, Maine. 



Two dead specimens dredged by Mr. Blaney were recently sent 

 me for identification. They are of especial interest as they prove to 

 be unlike any species hitherto known from the American waters. 

 The only one which they at all resemble is the Bela incisula Verrill 

 (Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sci3nces, 

 vol. V, p. 461, pi. xliii, fig. 12 and pi. Ivii, fig. 14, 1882). 



Fig. 1. Bela blaneyi. 



They differ from that species in having more elongated whorls and 

 therefore appear more slender. 'I'he ribs are very little raised and 

 are indicated rather by the deepened interspaces than by being raised 

 above the general surface level along the shoulder which is roundly 

 angulated; on some portions of the whorls these ribs blend entirely 



