DALL: MOLLUSCA AND BRACHIOPODA. 821 
; distinctly sculptured ; aperture ovate with a wide, prominent semitubular canal at 
the suture; outer lip strongly varicose, with four large rounded nodules on the 
varix, the edge-of the lip modified by the sculpture, not lirate within, white with 
a few inconspicuous brown spots; body with a thin varnish of callus wholly ad- 
herent, a narrow subsutural ridge near the middle, and a small brown spot at the 
left; pillar white, callous, arcuate, with six or eight low sharp spiral lirations ; 
Canal short, wide, bent to the right with a strong siphonal fasciole and a chink 
under the anterior edge of the columellar callus; throat pinkish. Lon. of shell, 
44; of last whorl, 31; of aperture, 25; max. diam. 25 mm. 
U.S. S. ** Albatross,” station 3368, near Cocos Island, Gulf of Panama, in 66 
fathoms, rocky bottom, temperature 589.4 F. U. S. N. Mus. 123,097. 
Nearest to B. caelata Broderip, but of a totally different color and surface, and 
differing also in details of sculpture. 
Cassididae. 
OOCORYS Fischer. 
Oöcorys Fischer, Journ. de Conchyl., Feb., 1884, 31, p. 392; type, O. sulcata Fischer, 
op. cit, 
Benthodolium Verrill and Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad., May, 1884, 6, p- 177; type, 
B. abyssorum Verrill and Smith, loc. cit. 
In the Monograph of the Miocene of Astoria and Coos Bay, Oregon, 1 have 
fully explained my reasons for regarding Oücorys as a member of the 
family Cassididae, rather than, as Fischer thought, entitled to a separate family of 
its own, 
In the Blake Report (1889, p. 228) I divided the genus from Atlantic speci- 
Mens into two sections as follows : 
Section Oöcorys s. s. Type, O. sulcata Fischer. 
Shell not umbilicate, pillar twisted, obliquely trune 
fasciole, outer lip smooth. 
Section Benthodolium V. and S. Type, B. abyssorum V. and 8. 
Shell with a narrow but distinct umbilicus and a strong 
outer lip obscurely denticulate when fully adult. 
Since then, having seen more material, I am in doubt whether these sections 
should be maintained or not, though complete continuity between them is not yet 
established. The range of variation is hardly known. Tt will be observed that 
Tagree entirely with Locard in his “ Talisman " report as to the relations of the 
Benus to the Cassididae and, I may add, in referring to it Watson's Buccinum 
aquilarum from near the Azores. The species now known are O. aquilarum 
atson, O. sulcata Fischer, O. abyssorum V. and S., O. watsoni and O. fischeri 
Locard, from the Atlantic, and the following forms from the Pacific. 
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ate, without a marked siphonal 
siphonal fasciole ; 
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