84 ADMETE. 



C. PYGM^EA, C. B. Adams. Panama. 

 C. CANDEI, d'0rb.= Phos Guadeloupensis, Petit (Manual, iii, 219). 



C. TENERA, Phil Hab. unknown. 



C. MODESTA, Carpenter. Vancouver's Island. 



C. IMBRICATA, Watson. Off Cape of Good Hope. 



C. FISCHERI, A. Adams. Strait of Corea. 



C. CRENULATA, A. Adams. China Sea. 



Subgenus ADMETE, Kroyer. 



C. viRiDULA, Fabr. PI. 7, figs. 23-28. 



Very thin, whitish, yellowish or greenish white, or very light 

 brown, suture rather deeply impressed, whorls rounded, 

 wrinkled costate above, encircled throughout with equidistant 

 raised lines ; columella obliquely truncate and minutely triplicate, 

 outer lip smooth within. 



Length, 12-15 mill. (var. grandis, 15-30 mill). 

 Massachusetts Bay, Maine, Gulf of St. Lawrence, 



Labrador, Iceland,, Arctic Norway, White Sea, 



Spitzbergen, Behring's Strait, N. Japan. 



A circumpolar species, inhabiting from shore to 690 fathoms 

 (dredged). It is extinct in the British seas. 



Jeffreys thus describes the animal : 



"Body milk-white; head furnished with a long and promi- 

 nent veil ; tentacles contractile, thread-shaped, rather long and 

 slender, smooth, with blunt tips, diverging at an angle of 45 ; 

 eyes placed on the top of short stalks, at the outer base of the 

 tentacles, with which the eye stalks are united; foot large, 

 triangular and long, squarish and double-edged in front, and 

 bluntly pointed behind, edges uneven ; pallial fold (lining the 

 basal groove of the shell) very short and thick. No operculum. 

 Active ; crawls out of the water. It emits a greenish liquid on 

 being touched with a camel's-hair brush." 



It is G. subangulosa of Wood's " Crag Mollusca;" C. crispa. 

 Moller; C. Buccinoides, Couthouy (=C. Coulliouyi, Jay); C. 

 costellifera, Sowb. 



Like many other circumboreal species, the shell varies con- 



