154 ACTION. 



Var. fascia-unica-alba Scac. Shoulder band only present. 

 Var. unicolor Scac. (efasciata Monts.). Uniform grayish roseate,, 

 without bands (pi. 19, f. 10). 



A. AMABILIS Watson. PL 20, figs. 27, 28. 



Shell small, ovate, white, with flattened whorls, a subscalar spire,. 

 a very blunt apex, a pear-shaped smallish mouth, and a very slight 

 tooth on the pillar. Sculpture : Longitudinals there are very 

 faint hair-like lines of growth. Spirals there are on the last whorl 

 about 20, on the penultimate whorl about 8 rather strong and equal 

 furrows stippled with roundish oval pits ; they become more crowded 

 and weaker toward the middle of the base ; just below the suture the 

 first furrow is minutely and slightly beaded, and it with the next 

 one or two is strong and these are crowded ; the flat surface which 

 parts them is somewhat broader than the furrows. Color translu- 

 cent and subglossy white. Spire conical, high, scarcely scalar. 

 Apex blunt and truncated ; the extreme tip is a very little inverted. 

 Whorls 5, very slightly shouldered just below the suture; round 

 the top there is a very feeble constriction ; below this the whorl is 

 conical, and in profile flat on the sides ; the last whorl is a very little 

 tumid with a produced base. Suture very little oblique, strongish 

 and well marked, but not channelled. Mouth pear-shaped, pointed 

 above, a little oblique in direction, patulous or very slightly guttered 

 in front of the pillar point. Outer lip straight and parallel to the 

 axis, and a little contracted above, arched and patulous in front. 

 Inner lip slightly convex on the body, on which there is a thin but 

 distinct glaze with a defined edge; there is a slight angulation at the 

 junction of the body and the pillar, near the top of which is a very 

 faint tooth amounting to no more than a slight swelling; the pillar 

 itself is very slightly oblique, and is straight, narrow with a sharp 

 edge behind which is a very slight and shallow furrow. Alt. 0*16 

 in.; diam. 0*1. Penultimate whorl height 0'04. Mouth height 

 0-08, breadth 0-05. ( Wats.). 



West of Azores, 1000 fms. ; off Palma, Canaries, 1125 fins. 



A. amabilis WATS., J. L. S. Lond. xvii, p. 287 ; Chall. Gastr., p. 

 629, pi. 47, f. 4. 



This species is a little like Action austrinus Watson ; but com- 

 pared to that the form is slimmer, the whorls are more laterally 

 compressed and less convex, the shell is smaller, and the apex is 

 more truncated. It a good deal resembles Action levidensis S. 



