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of George's Bank, 430 fathoms, 1872; Halifax Harbor, IG to 21 liitlioms, 

 and off Halifax, 42 fathoms, 1877. 



Bela temiiUrata Dall. 



Dall, Am. Journ. Concli., vii, p. 98, 1871. 

 Bela simplex Verrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., iii, p. 367, 1880 (non Middeudorff). 



A single immature specimen, referred to this species by Mr. Dall, was 

 taken in 1880. 



The nucleus, consisting of nearly three apical whorls, is chestnut- 

 brown; the surface is finely decussated by equal lines riiuuing obliquely 

 in opposite directions. 



The shell is pale flesh-color, covered with a thin, smooth, glossy, pale 

 yellowish brown epidermis. Length, 9'"'"; breadth, 5"""; length of 

 body-wborl, 7™"; of aperture, C""'". 



One dead, but fresh, specimen, from station 894, in 365 fathoms, oft' 

 Martha's Vineyard. Alaska, — Dall. 



The nucleus of this shell is not like that of a Bela. It more nearly 

 resembles Pleurotomella, in several respects. 



T^NIOGLOSSA. 



Dolium Bairdii Verrill aud Suiitli. 



Dolium Baridii Verrill and Smith, iu Verrill, Amer. Jour. Sci., xxii, p. 299, Oct., 

 1881 (■ description). 



The apical or jinclear whorls are regularly spiral, yellowish brown, 

 snooth, showing only taint lines of growth, and consist of nearly fonr 

 tu"us. Tbe color and character of the surface change abruptly beyond 

 th( nucleus, the normal sculpture suddenly appealing. The largest 

 sptcimen taken (<?) is 68™"^ long; breadth, 50"""; length of aperture, 

 53"-. 



Of Martha's Vineyard, station 945; 202 fathoms, one large living (?. 

 Stations 1032, 1036, 1038, 1040, 94 fathoms; young specimens and frag- 

 meu s of several large specimens. 



Of Delaware Bay, station 1046, 104 fathoms, one living ( <? ), 1881,— 

 Lieul. Z. L. Tanner. 



AmaurpsiH Mandlca (Gmelin) Morch, 



Amauropsis helicoklcs Gould, Binney's ed., p. 348, fi<^. Ifil. 



Oft" 'Jhatham, Mass.; stations 965, 969, in 15 to 18 fathoms. 



LamelL'ria pellucida, var. Gouldii Verrill. 



This lifters from the orighml L.peUucida in having the mantle thicker, 

 with m)re or less numerous, low verrucse on the dorsal snrface; color 

 pale yelow or yellowish white, more or less blotched or specked with 

 flakc-wlite and bright yellow, and often wirh brown blotches. The verge 

 appears to be.difterent in form, the lateral papilla being larger and 

 longer, aid not so near the end, the portion beyond it forming a spatu- 

 late or olovate lobe, rounded at the end, but this may be due partly to 



