NORTH SIDE OF THE BAY OF BISCAY, IN AUGUST, 1906. 381 



Station I. 75 fathoms. One living. 



,, II. 75 fathoms. One dead and one fragment. 

 ,, V. 109 fathoms. One living and two young shells dead. 

 ,, VI. 87 fathoms. One living and one dead. 

 Remarks. — The shells are mnch thinner than those usually found in the 

 English Channel and southern part of the North Sea, anl might be con- 

 sidered as approaching the variety striata, Pennant. 



(2) Buccinum, Sp. 



Two young living specimens of some species ; without further material 

 it is not much use attempting to give them a specific position. Mons. 

 Dautzenberg suggests they may be the young of B, sch7ieideri, 

 Verkriizen. 



Station V. 109 fathoms. Two living, young, 



LiOMESUS, Stimpson. 

 Liomesus dalei (J. Sowerby). 



Buccinum clalei, J. Sowerby, 1825. Min. Conch., p. 139, pi. 486, 

 figs. 1, 2. 

 „ „ Forbes and Hanley, 1853. Hist. Brit. Moll., iii, 



p. 408, pi. cix, figs. 1, 2. 

 Buccinopsis „ Jeffreys, 1867. Brit. Conch., iv, p. 298, pi. v, fig. 3 ; 



V, pi. Ixxxiii. 

 Jeffreys gives several localities on the authority of others ; for 

 instance, west coast of Ireland, 100 fathoms; soft ground beyond the 

 Doggerbank, Aberdeenshire ; places between the Loffenden Isles, the 

 jSTorth Cape, 40-50 fathoms, while he dredged it himself from a bottom 

 of fine sand and mud in 72-87 fathoms off the northern and eastern 

 coasts of Shetland. 



Not recorded by Locard in either the Travaillcur, Talisman, or 

 Ccmdan expeditions. 



One living and two dead, the latter young 



Three young shells dead. 



Two young shells, one living, one dead. 



One young shell dead. 



Tritonofusus, Beck. 

 (1) Tritonofusus gracilis (da Costa). 

 Buccinum gracilc, da Costa, 1778. Brit. Conch., p. 124, pi. vi, fig. 5. 

 Fusus gracilis, Alder, 1848. Cat. Moll. North, and Dur., p. 63. 

 Neptunca gracilis, P. Fischer, 1878. In Act. Soc. Lin., Bord., xxxii, 

 p. 190. 



