A. M Verrill — Molhcsca of the JVeio England (Jomt. 417 



This beautiful aud delicate species is named in honor of Miss 

 Charlotte E. Bush, one of the excellent assistants who have aided me 

 in my work on the concliological collections of the U. S, Fish Com- 

 mission. 



Gymnobela brevis Veniii, sp. nov. 



Shell small, short, stout, with a sliort, turreted spire, having 

 squarely shouldered lower whorls. The nucleus is eroded in all of 

 our s[)eeimens, but apparently consist of three whorls, which rapidly 

 enlarge, the thii-d h.aving its surface covered w^ith regular spiral lines 

 crossed by slight thin ribs ; on the next whorl the revolving lines 

 become more pi-ominent, about four of them situated below the 

 shoulder, which is sloping, and one or two above it ; these are crossed 

 by longitudinal ribs of about the same size, producing a decussated 

 structure. On the last whorl the spiral lines become thicker and 

 stronger and the ribs become stouter, more elevated and obtuse, 

 separated by wider intervals, and run down somewhat obliquely and 

 fade out at about the middle of the whorl ; the spiral lines form 

 minute nodules in crossing the ribs ; above the shoulder, which is 

 strongly angular, the ribs are thin, only little raised, and bend 

 obliquely forward without much curvature on the subsutural band, 

 which rises abruptly from the suture, sloping but little, and is some- 

 wdiat concave in the middle and a little swollen close to the suture. 



The aperture is short and broad, angulated at the shoulder, strong- 

 ly excurved at the base of the columella, which is short and straight, 

 with a strongly sinuous inner margin; the posterior sinus is broad, 

 shallow and inconspicuous. The canal is very short and broad, not 

 constricted, rounded at the end. Color, white. 



Length, 8'"'" ; breadth, 5-5™™ ; length of body-whorl, 6"^™; length 

 of aperture, 5™™ ; its breadth 2-20"'^"°. 



Station 2,041, in 1,608 fathoms, one specimen (No. 34,838); and 

 station 2,084, in 1,290 fathoms, 1883. Station 2,229, in 1,423 fathoms, 

 1884. 



Bela Blakei Yen-ill, sp. nov. 



Tlate XLIV, figure 8. 



Shell of good size for the genus, stout, fusiform, with turreted 

 spire and shouldered whorls, having a circle of nodules just below 

 the suture and another at the shoulder. Whorls about five and a 



