316 DAPHNELLA. 



D. TURRITISPIRA, E. A. Smith (unfigured). Japan. 



D. L^EVISCULPTA, Monterosato (unfigured). Mediterranean Sea. 



Section PLEUBOTOMELLA, Verrill, 1872. 

 D. PACKARDII, Verrill. PI. 29, fig. 59. 



Spiral striae faint or strong, the ribs low and narrow ; pale 

 yellowish brown or salmon, the nucleus darker. 

 Length, 21'5 mill. 



Gulf of Maine (85-110 fms.) ; off Cape Cod, 



Mass. (96 fms.). 

 D. AGASSIZII, Yerrill and Smith. PI. 29, fig. 58. 



More solid and rugosely sculptured than the preceding species ; 

 sinus wide, rather deep, rounded, a little below the suture ; 

 usually white when fresh, sometimes pink or pale yellow, often 

 stained with dark ash-gray ; columella often white, but usually 

 tinged with brown. Length, 31 mill. 



Off Newport, R. /., and S. of Martha's Vineyard; 



off Delaware Bay, 65 to 500 fms. 



D. PANDIONIS, Verrill. PI. 29, fig. 62. 



Waxy white, tinged with pale orange-brown, with a faint white 

 band on the middle of the body-whorl, and another below the 

 suture, sometimes stained gray or brown. Length, 43 mill. 



Martha's Vineyard; 238-312 fms. 



D. VERRILLII, Ball (unfigured). 360 fms., Caribbean. 



D. SIGSBEI, Ball (unfigured). 640-1568 fms., Caribbean. 



D. CIRCINATA, Dall. PI. 6, fig. 76. 



Shell slender, elongate, covered with a brownish epidermis ; 

 whorls six, evenly rounded, but with a sharp carina, above which 

 they are smooth, whilst below it they are grooved, with wider 

 interspaces ; notch deep, about one-third of the way from the 

 carina to the suture. L. 3 inches, cliam. 1 inch. 



Alaska. 



Described as a Surcula from a dead specimen found on the 

 beach at Nateekin Bay, Unalashka. The subsequently described, 

 but unfigured PL insignis, Jeffreys, of which ten living specimens 

 were obtained by the Vega Expedition in the Siberian Sea, 

 appears to be a synonym. These had no operculum ^therefore 



