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C. Sigsbeana. It is smaller and more cylindrical also, and the whorls are 

 much less marked ofl' by the sutures. 



Neither for this nor for tlie precedinp^ species, C. crj/fttallinn, are the details 

 of sculpture satisfactorily rendered on tlie figures. But the dilliculty of getting 

 a characteristic drawing of so minute an object from an unscientific artist is 

 very great. 



Cerithiopsis matara n. s. 



Sliell pale brown, straight-sided, conical, with sixteen compact whorls. 

 Nucleus, beginning glassy, smooth, and saccular, in the second whorl becomes 

 strongly transversely ribbed and swollen; the next whorl is a little smaller 

 than the second, and takes on the normal characters of the shell; sculpture 

 consisting of two principal nodulated spirals with a smaller undulated thread 

 between them, and a still smaller waved thread in front of and marking the 

 suture ; the transverse sculpture consists of concave waves (20-23) under 

 the spirals, which cross the whorls but are not conspicuous; base smooth 

 or radiately striate, somewhat concave, bounded by a small double keel of 

 two threads which are covered up in the suture; canal strong, short, wide, 

 twisted; aperture squarish, small; sides of the shell flattened, the sutures not 

 conspicuous. Max. Ion. of shell, 9.75; of last whorl, 2,5; max. lat. of shell, 

 2.25 mm. 



Habitat. Barbados, 100 fms. 



This shell was found mixed with C. crystalUna, from which it was easily 

 picked out, owing to its straighter sides, brown color, less rounded base, and 

 turban-like nucleus. 



Cerithiopsis Martensii n. s. 



Plate XX. Fiff. 2. 



Shell slender, thin, whitish, elongated, truncated, sharply but not strongly 

 sculptured; remaining w^horls about thirteen in number; transverse sculj)ture 

 of well marked lines of growth curved backward, toward the middle of the 

 whorl, most strongly in the later whorls ; also of (on the last whorl about 

 twenty -four) ill defined riblets extending across the whorl; spiral sculpture 

 composed of the usual anterior marginal thread, and two others of which the 

 anterior is the strongest; these rather poorly defined threads rise over the 

 transverse sculpture, but are rarely nodulous, though raised at the intersec- 

 tions; suture moderately distinct; base hardly flattened, with well marked 

 striae of growth, but no spiral ridges; canal short; aperture more rounded than 

 in the last species. Lon. of shell, 11.25; of last whorl, 3.0; lat. of last whorl, 

 2.75; of spire at truncation, 1.0 mm. 



Habitat. Station 5, lat. 24° 15' N., lon. 82° 13' W., in 229 fms., bottom 

 temperature 49°.5. Gulf of Mexico, in 1181 fms., mud, a worn specimen, 

 U. S. Fish Commission. 



