210 SCALAKIAD.E. 



fiftj-fivc fathoms, sixty miles from shore, and in sixty 

 fathoms off Cape Clear (M'Andrew). 



Out of Britain it is recorded as a Scandinavian species 

 by Loven. As a fossil, Mr. Searles Wood describes a 

 single specimen from the red crag of Sutton, and Lieut. 

 Thomas informs us that he dredged up two crag specimens 

 in the Wold on the coast of Norfolk. 



SPURIOUS. 



VERMETID.E. 



Of this family, the true position of Avhich is not exactly in this 

 place in the system, we have no British examples. The European 

 species are Mediterranean and Lusitanian. It is mentioned 

 here on account of having, once, by mistake, found, through a 

 spurious representative, a place in the British Fauna. 



The Vermetus introduced as Turbo pe7itangularis by Brown in the " Memoirs 

 of the Wernerian Society " (vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 522, pi. 24, f. 7, 8), has been sub- 

 sequently withdrawn, as exotic, by the author himself. 



