1>8 A. E. Verr'dl — MolhiHca of the New Eiujlaiid Coast. 



intersections of tlie cinguli and ribs, which are of about the same size, 

 pioduce a pretty regularly cancellated structure, but on the last 

 whorl the cinguli are more numerous and less prominent than the 

 ribs. The nucleus is chestnut-brown and consists of about two and 

 a half regularly increasing whorls, the apical one being very small 

 and regularly coiled ; this surface appears to have been minutely 

 cancellated by microscopic lines. Aperture irregularly oblong or 

 oblong-ovate, strongly angulated by the shoulder, and decidedly 

 widest at the base of the columella. Canal short, somewhat con- 

 stricted, nearly straight; outer lip thin, projecting forward below the 

 shoulder, with a broad, rounded, rather shallow sinus at the middle 

 of the subsutural band and a little removed from the suture. Oper- 

 culum not present in the alcoholic specimens. 



Length of one of the largest specimens, 17"""; breadth, 10™"'; 

 length of aperture, 10"""; its breadth, 3-5™'"; length of body-whorl 

 to tip of canal, 12""". Another more slender specimen is 15*5""" 

 long ; 8""" broad ; length of aperture, 9"'"^ ; its breadth, 3"'"\ 



Station 2041, N. latitude 39° 22' 50", W. longitude 68° 25', in 

 1608 fathoms (No. 34,835); and station 2084, N. latitude 40° 16' 50", 

 AV. longitude 67° 05' 15", in 1290 fathoms (No. 37,818). 



Gymnobela curta Verriii, sp. nov. 



Plate XXXI, figure 10. 



Shell small, short, fusiform, or subovate, with a low spire and very 

 large body-whorl, forming about tliree-fourths the total length. The 

 surface is finely decussated by longitudinal and spiral lines of nearly 

 equal size. Whorls four below the nucleus, very rapidly increasing, 

 strongly convex, but frequently slightly flattened at the periphery, 

 and sometimes distinctly angulated at the shoulder, but more com- 

 monly evenly rounded; last whorl very ventricose. Suture strongl}' 

 impressed, often slightly channelled. The nucleus consists of two or 

 three small, light chestnut-brown whorls, with very finely cancellated 

 sculpture. The apical whorl is very small and regularly coiled. 

 Sculpture on the rest of the shell consists of numerous, rather fine, 

 thin, regular revolving cinguli, which are separated by interspaces 

 about twice their own breadth on the lower whorls, but more crowded 

 on the upper ones. Two or three of the cinguli on the shoulder are 

 usually coarser and a little farther apart than the rest, and tlie largest 

 of these often forms a slight carina around the most proniiiieut })art 

 of the shoulder. On the subsutural band the cinguli are less distinct 

 ■iiid less regular, and often })artially obsolete. Anteriorly they cover 



