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an olive-colored, ciliated epidermis ; the canal is sliorter and more 

 cnrved and twisted ; the suture is slightly channeled, and the aperture 

 is broader than in either of these species. The sculpture consists of 

 regular, narrow, spiral grooves. The aperture is white. 



Buccinuni cyaneum Brug. ; Stimpson. 



Buccimim GronJandieum G. O. Sars, op. cit., p. 259, pi. 25, fig. 1 ; pi. x, fig. 11 f , 

 6 (non Stimpson). 



This species was dredged in the summer of 1879, by the " Speedwell", 

 off Cape Cod, in 90 fathoms. It was dredged by us in 1877, off Cape 

 Sable, Nova Scotia, in 80 to 90 fathoms, compact sand, and off Halifax, 

 in 100 fathoms, and has often been brought in from the banks off ISTova 

 Scotia by the Gloucester fishermen, but it was not previously actually 

 known from the New England coast. 



ITassa nigrolabra Verrill, sp. nov. 



Shell minute, long-ovate, nearly smooth, pale olive, with the edges of 

 the lips blackish. Whorls five, slightly rounded, with shallow sutures ; 

 spire elevated, not very acute. Surface covered with close, regular, 

 microscopic lines of growth, and with less distinct revolving lines ; canal 

 with a few minute, distinct, spiral grooves. Aperture short-ovate; canal 

 wide and very short; outer lip rounded, with edge flaring, thickened 

 and revolute, with a row of minute nodules on the inside ; inner lip con- 

 sisting of a broad, smooth, glossy, brownish-black deposit of enamel on 

 the body-whorl and columella ; columella nearly straight ; no umbilicus. 

 Length, 2.85"""; breadth, 1.40"™; length of aperture, 1.20"^"^. 



Station 870, in 155 fathoms; one specimen. It is referred to ^as.sa- 

 only provisionally. The animal is not known. 



Lunatia nana (Moller). 



G. O. Sars, op. cit., p. 159, pi. 21, figs. 16 a, h; pi. v, fig. 14 (dentition). — Ver- 

 rill, Proc. Nat. Mus., ii, p. 197, 1879. 



In addition to the localities oft" Cape Cod and on Le Have Bank, pre- 

 viously cited by me, this species has been taken at other localities on 

 our coast. It was taken by Prof. S. I. Smith and myself at Eastport, 

 in 1864; by Prof. H. E. Webster at Seal Cove, Grand Menan, in 1872; 

 by Mr. J. F. Whiteaves in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ; and by our party 

 in 1880, twenty miles south of Block Island, in 28 fathoms. 



Lunatia levicula Verrill, sp. nov. 



Shell light, thin, and rather delicate, broad-ovate; spire .moderately 

 elevated, subacute. Whorls five, evenly rounded; suture distinct. 

 Aperture ovate, well rounded below. Outer lip short, sinuous along 

 the edge, the upper portion considerably advancing where it joins the 

 body-whorl. Inner lip iiartially reflexed over a rather small, deep 

 umbilicus, but not thickened, and forming a mere film on the body- whorl, 

 above the umbilicus. Surface covered with distinct and rather coarse, 

 sinuous lines of growth, parallel with the edge of the lip, and, lilce it, 

 advancing as they approach the suture. Color (of a dead but fresh 



