378 THE MOLLUSCA COLLECTED BY THE " HUXLEY " FKOM THE 



Natica montatmti, Jeffreys, 1885. In P.Z.S., Lond., p. 31. 

 British and European seas, including the Mediterranean. 



Station Y. 109 fathoms. Three dead. 



,, XI. 146 fathoms. Three, one hving, two dead. 

 ,, XII. 246 fathoms. One dead, Avhich appears to be var. conica of 

 Jeffreys. 



(5) Natica (Lunatia) operculata (Jeffreys). 



Natica opercnlata, Jeffreys, 1885, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 34, pi. iv, 

 fig. 7. 



Distributed in the North Atlantic. Jeffreys' localities are from the 

 neighbourhood of Cape St. Vincent to south-west of Cadiz, and in 

 the Mediterranean, Adventure Bank. He also gives North Japan 

 (St. John) as a habitat. 



I am indebted to Mons. Dautzenberg for the identification of the 

 one small specimen. 



Station I. 75 fathoms. One, small, dead. 



LAMELLARIID-a:. 



Lamellaria, Montagu. 

 Lamellaria perspicua (Linne). 



Helix perspicua, Linne, 1758. Syst. Nat., edit, x, p. 775. 



According to Jeffreys, the distribution of this species is Norway, 

 Faroe Islands, Great Britain, Ireland, Brest (Daniel), Atlantic coasts 

 of France and Spain (Hildago), throughout the Mediterranean and 

 Adriatic, Canaries (McAndrew), Labrador, Canada, and the United 

 States. 



This species is not recorded by either the Caudan or Travailleur 

 and Talisman expeditions. 



Mons. Dautzenberg records it from San Miguel and Pico in the 

 Azores, remarking that all the examples were young, the shell hyaline 

 white, marked with three opaque bands. 



Station VI. 87 fathoms. Five living, two male, three female. 



TRITONIIDJE. 



Eanella, Lamarck. 

 Ranella gigantea (Lamarck). 



Murex reticularis, Born, 1780. Test. Mus. Caesar, Vindobon, pi. xi, 

 fig. 51, non Linne, 



Argohuccinum {Gyrina) gigantea, Dautzenberg, 1892. In Mem. Soc. 

 Zool., France, iv, p. 605. 



