CHAP. IV. ] THE CRUISES OF THE ‘ PORCUPINE’ 183 
considerable success at depths from 380 to 994 
fathoms (Stations 14-16): the wind and sea had now 
gone down; and we took with the scoop-net a few 
living specimens of Clio cuspidata. ‘The dredgings in 
380 and 469 fathoms yielded among the mollusca 
Leda lucida (Norwegian and a Sicilian fossil), Axinus 
eumyarius (also Norwegian), Newra obesa (Spitz- 
bergen to the west of Ireland), Odostomia, n. sp., O. 
minuta (Mediterranean), and Cerithinm, n. sp.; and 
among the echinoderms were Brisinga endecacnemos 
and Asteronyx lovént. But the results of the dredg- 
ing in 994 fathoms were so extraordinary as to excite 
our utmost astonishment. It being late in the even- 
ing, the contents of the dredge could not be sifted 
and examined until daylight the next morning. We 
then saw a marvellous assemblage of shells, mostly 
dead, but comprising certain species which we had 
always considered as exclusively northern, and others 
which Mr. Jeffreys recognized as Sicilian tertiary fos- 
sils, while nearly 40 per cent. of the entire number 
of species were undescribed, and some of them repre- 
sented new genera. The following is an analysis of 
the mollusca perfect and fragmentary taken in this 
one haul : — 
Orders. | ated | Recent. | — Fossil. Unde 
| of Species. 
Brachiopoda. . . . i 1 — = 
MeConchifera. . . . . 50 32 1 17 
| Solenoconchia . . . 7 3 == 4 
| Gasteropoda. . . . Les 42 23 48 
| Fieteropoda ~ . . *. | 1 1 — aa 
Meetcropoda. ~. . . .. |  I4 12 — 2 
roche | 
186 91 24 71 
