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DALL: MOLLUSCA AND BRACHIOPODA. 809 
channelled; sculpture of about ten narrow, prominent ribs, subspinose at the 
Shoulder, crossing the whorls, and separated by much wider interspaces ; these 
are crossed between the sutures by four, and on the last whorl by about fifteen 
low, rather obscure, strap-like flattened ridges, with narrower interspaces, not 
nodulous where they cross the ribs; those on the base smaller and closer together; 
aperture wide, pillar short, twisted, keeled at the anterior edge; inner lip with a 
thin layer of smooth callus. Length of three whorls, 5.5; max. diam. 4.0 mm. 
U. 8. 8. “ Albatross,” station 4641, near the Galapagos Islands, in 633 fathoms, 
Ooze, bottom temperature 399.5 F. U.S. N. Mus. 110,630. 
Although this specimen is quite defective, enough of it remains to characterize 
the species, and to distinguish it from any other forms of the genus known from 
the region. In form the species is not unlike Vassa ephamilla Watson, but the 
Sculpture is different and there is only one row of spines or pointed nodules. 
Colwmbellidae. 
COLUMBELLA LAMARCK, 
Columbella (Anachis) fusidens DALL, n. sp. 
Plate 11, figure 13. 
Shell of moderate size, slender, acute, of a pale brown or brownish white, with 
à thin, smooth periostracum ; whorls five and a half without the (lost) nucleus; 
Suture distinct, not deep; axial sculpture of (on the last whorl thirteen) narrow, 
Tounded nearly vertical ribs with subequal interspaces extending from suture 
to suture and on the last whorl to the base ; spiral sculpture none above, obso- 
lete on the base, a few strong threads on the canal and finer ones on the siphonal 
fasciole ; aperture narrow, contracted ; outer lip slightly thickened, within it and 
Parallel to the edge is a ridge of callus more or less continuous and striated so as 
to appear as if composed of five or six fused denticles ; in the type specimen this 
ridge is broken into two parts, the shorter anterior; in other specimens it is con- 
tinuous ; body and pillar with a rather thick layer of callus, obsoletely trans- 
versely striated, in some specimens possibly dentate, its outer anterior edge 
slightly raised ; pillar nearly straight, canal very short, slightly recurved. Lon. 
of shell (without the nucleus), 15.0; of last whorl, 10.0; of aperture, 7.0; max. 
diam. 6.0 mm. 
Urs S t Albatross,” station 4642, four miles east of Ripple Point, Hood 
Island, Galapagos Islands, in 300 fathoms, globigerina ooze, bottom temperature 
18^6 Y, U.S, N. Mus. 110,616. 
The most striking characteristic of the species is the contracted mouth, with 
the internal denticles as if melted together. There is nothing which closely re- 
Sembles it known from the region. C. iodostoma Gaskoin, from the Indo-Pacific 
Tegion, is somewhat similarly contracted. 
