Bar7iacles from Iriah Seas. 



589 



S. velutinum, vvliich is closely related to aS'. fonnce, Ales- 

 sandri, of the Italian Miocene*, is common on both sides of 

 the Atlantic in northern latitudes, and has been taken as far 

 south as Tristan d'Acuuha. It also occurs in the Indian 

 Ocean. The batliy metric range is extraordinary— from 35 to 

 over 1000 fathoms. The Irish collection includes five speci- 

 mens (the largest with a capitular length of 27 mm.) from 

 S. R. 363, 51° 22' N., 12° 0' W., 695-720 fathoms. 



'The new species appears to be most nearly related to 

 Scalpellam gemma, Aurivillius, and Scalpelliim grimaldl of 

 the same author, but possesses two extra valves below the 

 rostrum and a narrower carina. S. gemma was described 

 from Greenland and S. grimaldi from the Azores. 



ScaJpellum [Smilium) kempi, sp. n. 



Capitulum large, triangular, moderately compressed, 

 bearing 15 stout white valves, which are more or less imbricate 

 and project at the tips. Carina straight, narrowly triangular 



Scalpellum {Smilium) kempi, sp. n. x 3. 



in lateral view, bluntly keeled posteriorly, bearing about six 

 transverse ridges and distinctly striated vertically. Terga 

 vertical, triangular, large, occupying more than half the 

 capitular area, slightly retro verted at the tip, having a 

 distinct vertical keel along the middle line. Scuta resembling 



* See Pilsbry, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. uo. 60, p. 26 (1907). 



