132 i\[r. E. A. Smitli on Arctic Mollusca. 



many more known forms, thus showing that the fauna north- 

 ward does not change verj raateriallj from that existing 

 further south in Davis Straits. 



In the report of the ^ Valorous ' Expedition, Dr. Gwyn 

 Jeffreys gives it as his opinion that the moUuscan fauna of 

 West Greenland is rather European than American. On the 

 contrary, the small collections brought home by the present 

 expedition lead to an exactly opposite conclusion ; for, of 

 the thirty-four species obtained, at least sixteen are found off 

 the Atlantic coast of the United States, whilst only four or five 

 have been recorded from European seas, and the remainder, as 

 far as our present knowledge extends, are exclusively Green- 

 landic. 



Great praise is due to the two naturalists of the expedition, 

 Captain H. W. Feilden, of H.M.S. 'Alert/ and Mr. H. C. 

 Hart, of the ' Discovery,' for the careful manner in which the 

 particulars regarding the specimens are preserved. To save 

 repetition, the exact position of the principal stations at which 

 Mollusca were di-edgerl is here appended : — 



Dumb-bell Harbour, 82° 30' N. lat. 



Discovery Bay, 81° 41' N. lat. 



Dobbin Bay, Grinnel Land, 79° 40' N. lat. 



Franklin-Pierce Bay, 79° 25' N. lat. 



I. Gastropoda. 



Pleurotoma {Bela) vwlacea, Mighels & Adams, 



Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1841, i. p. 50 ; Boston Journal of Nat. Hist. 

 1842, p. 51, pi. 4. f . 21 ; Gould, InTert. Mass. 1870, p. 353, f. 622 (as 

 Bela violaeed). 

 Befrunda Bechii, Mciller, Naturliist. Tidsskrift, 1842, p. 86. 

 Pleurotoma groenlandica, Reeve, Conch. Icon, f . 343 (from type). 

 Var. = Defrancia cylindraccn, Moller, /. c. p. 85. 

 „ = Defrancia livida, Moller, I. c. p. 87. 

 „ = Pleurotoma horealis, Heeve, I. c. fig. 277. 



Hab. Discovery Bay, 5 fathoms {Feilden). 



Only one rather elongated specimen was obtained. 



Fusus [Sipho) tortuosus ?, Reeve, 



Belcher's Last Arctic Voyage, vol. ii. p. 394, pi. 32. f. 5 a, h. 

 ? Bticchmm Sahinii, Gray, Parry's Voy. 1821, p. 240. 

 \&T.?= Fusus spitzberyensis^ Reeve, Belcher's Last Arctic Voyage, ii. 

 pi. 32. f. 6 a, b. 



Hal. Shore of Hayes Sound, 79° N. lat. {Feilden) ; Dob- 

 bin Bay, 30 fms, {?Iart). 



It is with considerable doubt that I associate the two speci- 

 mens from the above localities with this species, as their form 



