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" 1 s Island. 



C. IMBRIGATA, Watson. Off Gape 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 Nomvay, 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 C. subangulosa of Wood's " Crag Mollusca ;" C. crispa. 

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

 cost ellif era, Sow)). 



Like many other circumboreal species, the shell varies con- 



