52 BULLETIN OF THE 



Fluxina brunnea n. s. 



Shell lar^e, solid, depressed, with five to seven whorls ; light brown Avith a 

 few touches of white transverse to the whorls on the carina ; umbilical rib 

 white ; nucleus and interior walls of the umbilicus dark brown. Several of 

 the spiral grooves above and below are marked by a darker brown than the 

 rest, and appear as brown lines. Sculpture above, on the nuclear whorls, of 

 close-set sharp longitudinal grooves with the ridges between them rounded and 

 more or less beaded or nodulous, crossed by more or less evident lines of 

 frowth, which, however, are not necessarily coincident with the beading where 

 present ; the grooves continue, but do not seem to increase in number, while 

 all sculpture disappears from between them, the interspaces being smooth and 

 flat and only marked by very light lines of growth. The carina is separated 

 from the rest of the whorl by a squarish shallow gutter, somewhat too broad to 

 be termed a groove, while the base rounds up over the periphery so tliat the 

 most angular edge of the carina is at the top ; base between flat and rounded, 

 marked by evanescent (partly brown) grooves and transversely by delicate 

 flexuous slightly raised aggregations of the lines of growth at somewhat regular 

 intervals ; these slightly crenate the umbilical rib on its inner edge and per- 

 haps form the pronounced, slightly backwardly flexed, striae and ridges which 

 mark the umbilical walls. There is hardly any callus on the body wall at the 

 aperture, which is broken in the specimens at hand ; its form has been made out 

 from the lines of growth ; the suture in the later whorls is closely appressed, 

 the carinal gutter would at first sight be taken fur it ; the first two and a half 

 whorls are solidly filled with translucent shelly matter. Alt. of base, 6.0 ; of 

 spire, 4.75. Diam. of base, 15.5; of umbilicus, 3.12. Width of aperture, 

 7.0 mm. 



Station 2, 805 fms., and in other localities which will hereafter be enumer- 

 ated. 



Ethalia anomala D'Orbignt. 



Yucatan Strait, 640 fms. 



Turbo (Liotia?) Briareus n. s. 



Shell small, elevated, with an obtuse apex and five rounded whorls. Nu- 

 cleus flattened, lemon-yellow, looking like a little Ddphinula ; the remainder 

 whitish with the backs of the spines streaked with rose color, or the whole 

 shell (except the nucleus) of a darker shade of rose ; nucleus with transverse 

 ridges ; next whorl and a half with spiny rugosities, spirally arranged ; remain- 

 der, above, with four or five revolving ridges close set with hollow spines 

 resembling little curved tubes slit down on the anterior side, a millimeter 

 long (or less) but sometimes dwarfed, thickened and stunted ; a thread with 

 smaller spines just below the periphery (or apjiearing just at the suture in 

 eai'lier whorls) inside of which are three strong ribs clusely nodulated, then a 



