1894. 



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IS^ormaii's suggestion the name was withdrawn and VMo proposed in its 

 place. But, as 1 fully defined my genus Berbuiius in 1886, if Jumala 

 for any reason fails, BeringhiH is prior to any subsequent name, and I 

 therefore adopt it. It seems that when Herr Friele used the name 

 Jumala he was under the impression that it was applied solely to one 

 of their ancient pagan deities by the Lapps. 



The following species probably belong to the genus Bcringiits, but I 

 have not yet been able to examine the dentition. 



BERINGIUS FRIELEI, new species. 

 Plate XXVII, fig. 8. 



Station 3497, in Bering Sea near the Pribilof Islands, in 80 fathoms; 

 temperature 38.7° F. No. 10G988, U.S.IST.M. 



Shell resembling B. Turtoni in size, but with a more regularly ta^iered 

 spire and deeper suture; the epidermis of a redder brown and not 

 polished; very adherent; the sculpture is of close-set pairs of flattened 

 spiral threads, each pair separated by a sharp channeled groove, as 

 wide as a thread, from the next pair, and a very narrow but sharp groove 

 between the two threads composing the pair; transverse sculpture 

 only of fine incremental lines; nucleus lost; aperture snow white 

 within; not lirate, though the external sculpture is reflected slightly 

 close to the edge of the outer lip, which is slightly expanded; canal 

 very short and wide; whorls six and one-half without the nucleus; oper- 

 culum normal, very large, closing the aperture. Length of shell, 124; 

 whorl, 80; maximum diameter, 55 mm. 



This splendid shell diflers from Tritonium schantaricwn, Middendorflf 

 in beiug larger, in its j)aired sculpture and nonlirate throat. I suspect 

 T. schantaricum belongs rather to the group of Sipho sjyifzhergensis than 

 to Beringius. It is named in honor of Mr. Herman Friele, of Bergen, 

 Norway. 



BERINGIUS ALEUTICUS, new species. 

 Plate XXIX, fig. 2. 



Station 3481, near Amukhta Pass, Aleutian Islands, in 248 fathoms, 

 sandy bottom. No. 100990, U.S.N.M. 



Shell of about five whorls (the nucleus is lost), solid, heavy, smooth, 

 except for faint incremental lines and occasional obscure sjiiral streaks; 

 whorls rounded, covered with a yellow-brown epidermis above the 

 suture; the part anterior to thesutural line on the last whorl is marked 

 by paler, opaque straw color; suture deep, not channeled; the pillar 

 heavy, white, short; the siphonal fasciole, if any, removed by erosion; 

 canal hardly differentiated from the aperture; pillar lip white, callous; 

 outer lips smooth, simple, slightly expanded; length of (decollate) shell, 

 65 ; of last whorl, 48 ; maximum diameter, 36 mm. The operculum rather 

 narrow, normal, and yellowish amber color. 



