30 THE NAUTILUS. 



Dredged at station 4,860 in the Japan Sea, in 122 fathoms, mud 

 and stones, bottom temperature 34° 1 F. U. S. N. Mus. 210,800. 



The species is named in honor of Prof. E. S. Morse of Salem, 

 whose work on the brachiopods is well known. The most nearly 

 related species is Laqueus tjiarise, A. Adams, which is more ovate, 

 with a narrower and more recurved beak, the genital glands differ- 

 ently distributed, and the mesial septum of the dorsal valve, long, 

 high, and prominent ; reaching to the anterior fourth of the valve, 

 while in L. morsel it barely reaches the middle of the valve. 



A white variety {albida) of Waldheimia (= Eudesia) raphaelis 

 Dall, was also dredged, the specimens being more compressed 

 laterally and with sharper anterior flexures than in the type. A 

 dwarf form of the same species with all the characteristics of the 

 adult, except that it measures 17 mm, long instead of 37, was 

 dredged in Kagoshima Gulf. The normal adults of the species show 

 little or no flexuosity anteriorly, until nearly full grown, but the 

 dwarf referred to possessed them in perfection. 



A NOTE ON HELIX EOBTENSIS. 



BT OLOF O. NYLANDER. 



I have been much interested in your articles on Helix hortensis in 

 America. When a small boy they were among my choicest play- 

 things and I gathered large numbers of them together with H. 

 nemoralis in south-eastern Sweden. 



In 1899 among a lot of marine shells collected at Grand Manan, 

 and given to me for identification were three land shells. One 

 specimen had five narrow, dark brown bands on a light yellow 

 ground, a common form of Helix hortetisis ; both v/ere of larger 

 size than any specimens in my collection from Sweden, Germany 

 and England. One specimen is of a rich yellow color, comparing in 

 every way with European specimens in my collection. The third 

 specimen was a young shell, light yellow in color and like the plain- 

 colored Helix hortensis of the Maine coast. Mrs. S. Page who col- 

 lected the specimens, informed me that they were plentiful on 

 the Island of Grand Manan, her native home. As there is so much 



