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CRISTELLARIA ITALICA (Def ranee). 



Plate 35, figs. 2, 5-7. 

 Saracenaria italica Defbance, Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. 32, 1824, p. 177 ; vol. 

 47, 1827, p. 344 ; Atlas Conch., pi. 13, fig. 6.— Blainville, Man. de Mai., 



1825, p. 370, pi. 5, fig. 6. 



CristeUaria (Saracenaria) italica D'Orbigny, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. 7. 



1826, p. 293, No. 26 ; Modules, Nos. 19 and 25. 



CristeUaria italica Parker, Jones, and H. B. Beady, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., ser. 3, vol. 16, 1865, pp. 21, 32, pi. 1, figs. 41, 42.— H. B. Brady, 

 Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 544, pi. 68, figs. 17, 18, 

 20-23; Journ, Roy. Micr. Soc, 1887, p. 912.— Wright, Proc. Roy. 

 Irish Acad., ser. 3, vol. 1, 1891, p. 485. — Bggeb, Abh. kon. bay. Akad. 

 Wis. Miinchen, CI. II, vol. 18, 1893, p. 350, pi. 12, figs. 22, 23, 26, 

 40-42. — Fornasini, Mem. Accad. Sci. 1st. Bologna, ser. 5, vol. 4, 1894, 

 p. 219, pi. 3, fig. 8 ; vol. 5, 1895, p. 12, pi. 4, fig. 28.— Goes, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 58.— Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 

 (1899), p. 316, pi. 63, fig. 6.— Millett, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc., 1902, p. 

 256.— Chapman, Trans. N. Zealand Inst., vol. 38, 1905, p. 96.— Heron- 

 Allen and Eabland, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1907, p. 428. — Cusiiman, 

 Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 3, 1913, p. 78, pi. 33, fig. 3.— Heeon-.Allen 

 and Earland, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1916, p. 47. — Cushman, Bull. 

 103, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1918, p. 61; Publ. 291, Carnegie Inst. Wash- 

 ington, 1919, p. 38; Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 56, 1919, p. 617; Bull. 

 100, U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4, 1921, p. 252, pi. 51, fig. 2. 



Description. — Test stout, trihedral, triangular in cross section, 

 early chambers close-coiled, later ones uncoiling but short, not ex- 

 tending back to the earlier volutions; sutures somewhat depressed; 

 wall smooth ; face of the last-formed chamber nearly triangular. 



Length of Albatross Atlantic specimens 3.50 mm. 



Distribution. — The Atlantic records for this species are given by 

 Brady off Sombrero and Culebra Islands, West Indies, off Bermuda, 

 and off the coast of Spain. It is recorded by Goes from the Carib- 

 bean and the Gulf of Mexico, 169-658 fathoms (308-1,203 meters). 

 He records specimens attaining the length of 8 mm, Flint had speci- 

 mens from the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Georgia, 196 and 

 440 fathoms (359 and 805 meters). I have had specimens from four 

 Albatross stations, two stations in the Gulf of Mexico, one of which 

 is the same as that from which Flint records the species, one off 

 the northern coast of Cuba, and one off the South Carolina coast. 

 From the British Isles it is recorded from the Estuary of the Dee, 

 a single specimen off the southwest of Ireland, at 345 fathoms (631 

 meters) (Wright) ; and off South Cornwall (Heron-Allen and Ear- 

 land). It occurs in the Miocene of the Bowden marl of Jamaica 

 as fairly large specimens, and is known from numerous records in 

 the Indo-Pacific, often reaching a large size at moderate depths in 

 tropical waters. 



