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the state of contraction. The shell, in the specimens examined, is very 

 thin, delicate, and transparent, as in L. pcllucida. Init differs in being- 

 somewhat shorter, broader, with the spire a little lower, the apex less 

 elevated, and the suture less impressed. In alcohol, a specimen is 18™"^* 

 long; breadth, 11*""" ; height, 10""™. 



Oft' Martha's Vineyard, stations 925, 938, 939, 94G, 1029, in 224 to 458 

 fathoms. 



Several specimens of both sexes occurred at some of these localities. 

 Off Delaware Bay, station 1047, 1881, — Lieut. Z. L. Tanner. It is usually 

 associated with the smooth form originally described, and intermediate 

 states, as to the number and size of the dorsal verrucie occur, some 

 being strongly verrucose, others nearly smooth. 



Capulus Hungaricus (Linne). 



CapuJus hungaricua Jeffreys, Brit. Couch., iii, p. 269, pi. 6, fig. 5; v, pi. 59, figs. 

 6, Cm. 

 G. O. Sars, Moll. Arct. Norvegi;?, p. 145, pi. v, figs. 2a, 2& (dentition). 



Stations 922, 1029, in G9 and 458 fathoms, off Martha's Vineyard, 1881; 

 two living si)ecimeus. 



On the European side of the Atlantic, this species is found from Ice- 

 land to the Mediterranean. 



Torellia fimbriata Verrill and Sniitli. 



TorelUa fimhriata Verrill and Smith, in Ycrrill, Trans. Conn. Acad., v, p. 520, p. 

 57, figs. 27, 27«, June. 1882. 



Shell thin, fragile, translucent, broader than high, with a short, de- 

 pressed spire, the apex small and a little prominent, the last whorl laige 

 and ventricose, with spiral carinje, bearing divergent epidermal hars. 

 Whorls five, very convex, rapidly enlarging; suture deep, sligltly 

 channeled; nuclear whorls smooth and glossy, regularly spiral, the 

 first whorl minute. Sculpture, several raised, angular, spiral caiin;e 

 separated by unequal intevals, on which are finer spiral lines, and 

 numerous evident, thin, raised flexuous lines of growth, which ffoss 

 both the intervals and carina?, rendering the latter finely nodiious. 

 On the last whorl there are about ten carina;, each of which usuill.y 

 supports a spiral row of long epidermal hairs; the uppermost of these 

 is just below the suture, and its epidermal processes are long aid ap- 

 pressed against the preceding whorl; the next is separated by awider 

 space, while those on the conyex part of the whorl are nearer together; 

 the last defines the border of the umbilicus, which is deep, hit not 

 broad. Aperture large, roundish, the lip continuous in adult shells; 

 in the umbilical region the lip is somewhat reflected, so as to pirtially 

 conceal the umbilicus; within the lip the columella has a ver;y obtuse 

 lobe, projecting inward. 



Epidermis thick, pale yellowish or greenish yellow, mor< or less 

 lamellose along the lines of growth, and rising into long aid large 

 divergent hair-like processes along the spiral carinte. 



Shell yellowish white. 



