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merated. All the specimens were dead, discolored, and occupied by 



annelid tenants (Da//). 



D. CAPILLOSUM Jeffreys. PL 8, figs. 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. 



Shell very slightly curved, solid and strong, white under a dull 

 gray-brown deposit, lusterless. Sculpture of fine, even, rounded lon- 

 gitudinal threads, separated by narrow grooves, and roughened by 

 close, rather irregular impressed growth- lines ; the threads a bout 65 

 in number toward the aperture, most of them continuing to the anal 

 end, varying somewhat in width, but remarkably uniform in appear- 

 ance. Aperture circular, somewhat oblique, thin-edged. Anal ori- 

 fice nearly round ; slit rather narrow and short, on the convex side. 

 Length 81, diam. of aperture 8*6, of apex 1/6 mill. ; length of slit 

 3 mill. 



Whole North Atlantic, 208-1785 fms. (Valorous, Porcupine) ; off 

 Bahia Honda, 418 fms. ; Bay of Biscay, 882 fms. ; N. of Hebrides, 

 542 fms. ; Coast of Portugal, 220-1095 fms. ; W. of Azores and of 

 San Miguel, 1000 fms. ; Setubal, 470 fms. ; off Culebra L, W. Indies, 

 390 fms. (Challenger) ; off Havana, 119 fms.; off Martinique, 169 

 fms.; near Santa Lucia, 116 fms. (Blake); Barbados, 100 fms. 

 (Hassler Exped.). 



D. capillosum JEFFR., " Valorous " Rep., Proc. Roy. Soc., xxv, 

 1876, pp. 185, 191 (name only) ; Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), xix, 1877, 

 p. 153 ; Ibid (5), vi, p. 375, (1880) ; P. Z. S., 1882, p. 658, pi. 49, 

 f. 1. WATSON, Challenger Rep., p. 1, pi. 1, f. 1. DALL, Blake 

 Moll., Bull. M. C. Z., xviii, p. 425 ; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 37, 

 p. 76 (1889). 



The above diagnosis and fig. 33 are from specimens dredged near 

 Graciosa, Azores, in 800 fms. 



Jeffreys described this species from a young specimen as follows : 

 D. capillosum Jeffreys, (PL 8, figs. 31, 32). Shell tapering to a 

 fine point, slightly curved, rather solid, opaque, and mostly luster- 

 less. Sculpture, numerous and sharp (not rounded) longitudinal 

 striae, some of which are intermediate and smaller than the rest ; 

 they disappear toward the posterior or narrow end, which is quite 

 smooth and glossy for one-quarter of an inch ; color whitish ; mar- 

 gin at the posterior end having a short and narrow notch ; length 

 1-4 inch, breadth 0'15 inch. (Jeffreys, 1877). 



Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys has described the ribs as "sharp (not rounded)." 

 They rather seem to be sharply cut, but they are rounded on the 



