132 CAPULUS. 



A species having a wide distribution in warm seas. It is 

 ? C. militaris, Wood, C. incurvus, Gmel., C. libej-atus, Pease 

 (fig. 76). 



C. BADius, D Linker. PI. 39, figs. 77, 78. 



Laterally compressed, obsoletely radiatel}' costulate, orange- 

 brown. Length, 15 mill. 



Japan. 

 Has somewhat the aspect of a Hipponyx. 



C. SAGiTTiFER, Gould. PL 39, figs. 79, 80. 



Smooth, thin, translucent white, with minute arrowhead- 

 shaped markings of more opaque white, arranged in quincunx 



order. Diam. 6 mill. 



Hab. unknown. 

 C. viOLACEUS, Angas. PI. 39, fig. 81. 



Laterally compressed, radiately striated, apex free, inclined 

 to the right; internally with a ver}^ narrow rib, rounded at the 

 edge, situated in the cavity of the shell and extending on either 

 side nearly to the interior of the aperture ; interior violaceous. 



Length, 16 mill. 



Fo7't Jackson^ Australia. 

 Described from a single specimen. 



Section Capulacm^a, M. Sars. 



C. RADTATUS, Sars. PI. 40, figs. 84-87. 



Thin, transparent, radiately striate or smooth except growth- 

 lines, whitish or yellowish, faintl}' strigate with darker color, 

 under a thin yellowish epidermis, base rounded, apex small, 

 inclined. Length, 22 mill. 



Circumboreal: Sea of Ochotsk, Alaska. Bavis^s Str-ait, 



Norway., Spitzbergen, Japan. 



The synonymns are Pilidium commoduni, Midd. (figs. 86, 87), 

 Piliscus probus, Loven, Capulus dilatatus (figs. 84, 85), and 

 G. depressus, A. Adams. 



Allerya Krebsti, Miirch, and Propilidium tenue, Jeffreys, 

 both referred to this group, are members of the family 



SlPHONARlID.a;. 



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