STROPHIA. 219 



Lingual formula 98 (13—1—13), with 6 perfect laterals; central and lateral 



bases of attachment notched at outer lower corners; central square, having 



three small denticles : indented at upper mar- 



... Fig. 124. 



gin ; laterals tricuspid, inner denticle largest ; c=:<="= 



marginals minutely serrate. v^^fi^f^ 



Referred to V. Moulinsiana, Dupuy, by (K> -* - ^ " 



Lingual membrane of Vertigo venlricosa 



Gwyn, Jeffreys (I. c), 246. (Morse). 



Vertigo simplex, Gould. 

 Vol. III. PI. LXXII. Fig. 3. 



Shell minute, cylindrical, obtuse at apex, smooth, chestnut-color; whorls 5, 

 well rounded, separated by a deep suture ; aperture circular, the peristome 

 nearly continuous, simple or scarcely everted, except at its columellar margin, 

 where it partially conceals a small umbilicus ; no trace of a tooth has been 

 detected in any specimen. Length, If mill.; breadth half as great. 



Pu r o simpler, Gould, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., TIT. 403, PL III. Fig. 21 (1840); 

 IV. 359 (1843); Invertebrata, 190, Fig. 121 (1841). — Pfeiffer, Mon. Hel. 

 Viv., II. 302. — DeKay, N. Y. Moll., 52, PL XXXVI. Fig. 347 (1843). — 

 BiNNEY, Terr. Moll., IT. 343, PL LXXII. Fig. 3. 



Vertigo simplex, Stimpson, .Shells of New England, 53 (no descr.). — W. G. BiN- 

 NEY, Terr. Moll., IV. 148: L. & Fr.-W. Sh., I. 254 (1869). —Morse, Amer. 

 Nat., I. 670, Figs. 67, 68 (1868). — Tryon, Amer. Journ. Conch., III. 310 

 (1868). — Gould and BiNNEY, Inv. of Mass., ed. 2, 444 (1870). 



Canada and New England, a species of the Northern Region. 



Animal dark gray above, light gray and pellucid below ; foot moderately 

 long, trilobate anteriorly, the middle lobe minute. Eye-peduncles usually 

 clavate, sometimes very decidedly. No tentacles. Shell carried perpendicu- 

 larlv, or even inclined forwards. Active in movement. 



Referred to V. edentula, Drap., by Gwyn Jeffreys, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 1872, 246. 



Spurious Species of Vertigo. 



Vertigo contractu, Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll., is the same as Pupa contractu. 

 Vertigo decora, Adams, Gen. Bee. Moll., is the same as Pupa decora. 

 Vertigo minuter, Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll., is the same as Pupa rupicola. 

 Vertigo pentodon, Say, is the same as Pupa pentodon. 

 Vertigo rupicola, BlNNF.Y, is the same as Pupa rupicola. 

 Vertigo cortienria, BiNNEY, is the same as Pupa corticaria. 



STROPHIA, Albers. 



Animal hcliciform, blunt before, pointed behind ; mantle posterior, pro- 

 tected by a shell ; respiratory and anal orifices on the right of the mantle, 



