174 ACT^ONl NA. 



Outer lip a little patulous above, a good deal so on the base ; it 

 rises from the body-whorl at a right angle but immediately bends 

 downwards and runs forward to the base quite straight and parallel 

 to the axis; across the base it is slightly emarginate. Inner lip; a 

 thin, narrow glaze crosses the body and borders the pillar, which is 

 narrow and concave, with a rounded, slightly twisted, and feebly 

 marginated edge. There is no tooth. Alt. 1 in. ; diam. O5. Penul- 

 timate whorl, height 0'2. Mouth, height 0'65 ; breadth 0'31. This 

 fine species is represented by only one somewhat broken specimen. 

 (Wats.). 

 Balfour Bay, Royal Sound, Kerguelen Island, 60 fms. (Challenger.) 



Aetceon edentulus WATS., Journ. L. Soc. Lond., xvii, p. 284. 

 Actceon (Actceonina) edentulus WATS., Chall. Rep. Gastr., p. 632, 

 pi. 47, f. 6. 



A. CHARIIS Watson. PL 49, fig. 5, 6. 



Shell small, ovate, thin, translucent white with flatly rounded 

 whorls, a short subscalar very bluntly tipped spire, a largish roundish 

 mouth, sinuated outer lip, and edentulous pillar. Sculpture : 

 Longitudinals there are numerous, unequal, sinuous hair-like, 

 obsolete lines of growth. Spirals the whole surface is scored with 

 flattish rounded threads and shallow furrows of half their breadth 

 between ; these become feeble in the middle of the whorls ; the fur- 

 rows are not stippled. Color translucent-white and glossy. 

 Spire conical, scarcely scalar. Apex extremely blunt, being sud- 

 denly truncated and flattened ; the extreme tip is very slightly in- 

 verted. Whorls 4%, constricted above, flatly rounded in the mid- 

 dle, and very faintly constricted below ; the last is very little 

 tumid, with a rounded and slightly produced base. Suture strong, 

 slightly oblique, impressed and slightly channelled. Mouth roundly 

 pear shaped, very bluntly pointed above. Outer lip : there is a 

 strong, shallowish and wide sinus above; beknv this the lip edge 

 (straight in its direction) is prominent, with a very slight emargi- 

 nation on the patulous and rounded base-line. Inner lip: an ex- 

 cessively thin and narrow glaze crosses the body, which is scarcely 

 convex ; the line of junction with the pillar and out to the point of 

 the shell is roundly concave: the lip edge on the pillar is narrow 

 and sharp, and there is behind it a small furrow. Alt. O'l in.; 

 diam. 0'05. Penultimate whorl, height O02. Mouth, height O05; 

 breadth 0'03 inch. ( Wats.). 



Off San Miguel, Azores, in 1000 fms. (Challenger). 



