ACTION. 155 



Wood, but has a shorter body-whorl and mouth ; the rise of the 

 whorls in the spire is more scalar, and the apex is stumpier, with 

 a coarser tip. ( Wats.}. 



\ 

 A. MONTEROSATOI Dautzenberg. PI. 19, figs. 1, 2, 3. 



Shell 5J mill, high, 3 mill, broad, ovate-elongated. Spire conoid. 

 Whorls 5, convex, transversely sculptured throughout with punc- 

 tate strise. Last whorl obese. Aperture pear-shaped ; columeila 

 straight, hardly folded; outer lip arcuate. Color dull white. 

 (Dautz.). 



Pico, Azores, in 1287 meters, one example. 



A. monterosatoi DAUTZ., Res. Camp. Sci. Albert 1st., i, p. 20, pi. 

 1, f. 2a-2d., 1889. 



This species is allied to A. pusillus Fbs., but in that form the col- 

 umeila is twisted and the spire less tapering. 



A. LUTEOFASCIATUS Miihlfeldt. PI. 49, fig. 4. 



Shell ovate, ventricose, smooth;" white with three buff bands; the 

 columeila with one fold. Base weakly, obliquely striated ; whorls 

 4. Alt. 2 to 3 mill. 



Rimini, Adriatic Sea, in shell-sand. 



Voluta luteo-fasciata MEG. v. MUHLF., Verhandl. der Gesellsch. 

 Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, i, pt. 4, p. 205, pi. 7, f. 2, 

 1829. 



I have no knowledge of this species except from the original de- 

 scription. It seems to have been overlooked by writers on Mediter- 

 rean shells. 



A. GLOBULINUS Forbes. 



Shell white, globose ; spire short; whorls 4, spirally striated, the 

 strise numerous and simple ; aperture pyriform, columeila thickened. 

 Length 2 mill. (Fbs.). 



Aegean Sea, 0-95 fins. (Fbs.~) ; Mediterranean 92 fins. (Monts.) ; 

 Off San Miguel, Azores, 1000 fms. (Chall.). 



Tornatella globulina FORBES, Rep. Aeg. Inv., p. 191. Actceon glo- 

 bulinus JEFFR., Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), vi, p. 85. MONTS., Enum., p. 

 50. SEGUENZA, Form. Terz. Calab., p. 251. WATSON, Chall. Rep. 

 Gastr., p. 627. 



