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and longer, and their clusters are less numerous and less crowded. In 
case it be thought necessary to unite the two forms, Couthouy’s name 
has priority. 
Tergipes despectus (Johnst.) Alder & Hancock. 
_ The genuine despectus was distinguished from G. exigua by Mr. J. H. 
Emerton, at Salem, Mass., in 1879, when he made characteristic draw- 
ings of both and preparations of the odontophores, which I have exam- 
ined. During the present year he has found the former near Newport, 
R. I., on hydroids (Obelia) at low-water. The species described and 
figured by Gould (Binney’s edition) under this name is really the Gal- 
vinia exigua Alder & Hancock, differing widely in its dentition, there 
being three rows of teeth, instead of the single row, seen in Tergipes. 
But the T. despectus of my report on Invertebrates of Vineyard Sound, 
1873, was correctly named. Both species are found under the same con- 
ditions, but, according to Mr. Emerton, G. exigua is found in the spring 
and early summer, while 7. despectus occurs later in the summer and 
in autumn. 
Acmza rubella ? (Fabr.). 
Tectura rubella G. O. Sars, Moll. Reg. Arct. Norv., p. 121, pl. 8, figs. 5 a,b; pl. 
ii, fig. 11 (dentition).—Jefireys, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., for March, 
1877, p. 231. 
One specimen, without the animal, was dredged at station 894. It 
appears to agree closely with the species referred to,,except that the 
apex is not obtuse, and its color is pale yellowish white. There is no 
sculpture except irregular and rather distinct lines of growth. The 
apex is acute, bent directly backward, and situated at about the pos- 
terior fourth. The base is oblong-oval. Length, 5.5""; height, 2.75". 
HETEROPODA. 
Carinaria Atlantica Ad. & Reeve (?). 
Fragments occurred at station 865. They may have belonged to C. 
Mediterranea. 
Atalanta Peronii Lesueur. 
D’Orbigny, Voy. Amér. Mérid., Moll., p. 171, pl. 12, figs. 1-15; Hist. l'Isle de 
Cuba, Moll., i, p. 102, 1853. 
Near George’s Bank, latitude 41° 25/ north, longitude 65° 5! to.69° 30! 
west (Messrs. S. I. Smith and O. Harger, 1872). 
PTEROPODA. 
Although the Pteropods are all, properly speaking, oceanic species, it 
is undoubtedly true that a certain group of species will be found to be 
characteristic of the waters adjacent to each coast. Hitherto those ob- 
served and recorded from near the shores of New England have been 
chiefly northern or arctic species, which follow the course of the arctic 
current along our coast. For this reason, in the winter and spring, the 
beautiful Clione papilionacea is frequently found as far south as Vineyard 
