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The locality of this species, dredged by the Albatross off the south- 

 eastern coast, was not preserved ; it may very probably have been off the 

 coast of Georgia. It was hastily referred to the young of B. superha 

 Watson, an Australian shell, but closer study shows its distinctness, 

 as the geographical position rendered probable. The most obvious 

 differences are the simple carinations of the whorl and the margin of 

 the umbilicus, which in the Australian species are beaded. The sculp- 

 ture of the spire is similar in both. 



Family COCCULINIDAE 



Genus COCCULINA Dall 



COCCULINA LISSOCONA, new species 



Shell small, white, conic, with the apex well recurved and slightly 

 behind the middle of the shell; surface smooth, aperture oval, mar- 

 gin entire; interior porcellanous white. Height, 1,5; length, 2.5; 

 width, 1.7 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 333472. 



Off Fernandina, 13 specimens. At many localities along the Flor- 

 ida coast and keys, in from 63 to 135 fathoms; J. B. Henderson, jr. 



This is the first perfectly smooth species I find among those referred 

 to this genus. 



Family SCISSURELLIDAE 



Genus SCISSURELLA Orbigny, 1823 



SCISSTJRELLA CEISPATA Fleming 



Scissurella crispata Fleming, Brit. Animals, p. 366, 1828. — Forbes and 

 Hanley, Brit. Moll., vol. 2, p. 544, pi. 63, fig. 6, 1853. 



Off Fernandina, two specimens. 



SCISSURELLA PROXIMA, new species 



Shell minute, white, of nearly four whorls, the slit about one- 

 fourth as long as the whorl; the suture distinct, not deep; the poste- 

 rior surface between the suture and the fascicle arcuately striated; 

 the base moderately convex, the surface nearly smooth, but under 

 the lens showing a faint reticulation of the incremental lines with 

 faint spiral threads; umbilicus perforate; the aperture rounded; the 

 pillar lip slightly reflected. Height, 1.7; diameter, 3 mm. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. Cat. No. 322962. 



Dredged off South Carolina by the United States Bureau of Fish- 

 eries Steamer Albatross at Station 2314, in 159 fathoms coarse sand, 

 bottom temperature 47.4° F. 



The species is smaller and relatively more elevated than S. cris- 

 pata; less elevated and with much less prominent sculpture than S. 

 alia Watson, especially on the base. It has been collected in 434 

 fathoms off St. Augustine, and in numerous other localities on the 

 coast and off the keys of Florida, in 20 to 200 fathoms. 



