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stoine is (in the type) not more reflected than the other varices, but may be so 

 in older specimens; the aperture is somewhat oblique and nearly circular. 

 Lon. of shell, 8.05; of nucleus, 0.5; of last whorl, 2.75; of aperture, 1.87; 

 max. lat. of shell, 2.75; of aperture, 1.87 mm. 



Habitat. Station 43, Lat. 24° 8' N., Lon. 82° 51' W., in 339 fms., off Tor- 

 tugas Keys, bottom temperature 45°. 0. 



The nucleus in this species is markedly different from that of any of the 

 other forms I have examined, not only in its relatively strong and peculiar 

 sculpture, but in its solid and opaque consistency and deep color. I have re- 

 ferred this shell to Jeffreys's species with some doubt. The fragments which 

 represent his shell in the Jeffreys collection are much more drawn out, and 

 can hardly be the same thing; but the figure in the P. Z. S., though still some- 

 what more slender than the Blake shell, is intermediate, and I do not feel justi- 

 fied under the circumstances in proj)osing a new specific name for the latter. 

 I retain, however, the diagnosis and figure, which were prepared before the 

 publication of Dr. Jeffreys's paper, as perhaps serving to throw a little addi- 

 tional light on the subject. 



Scala (Dentiscala) hellenica Forbes. 



Scalaria hellenica Fbs., Rep. JEgean Moll., pp 137, 189, 1843. 



Rissoa? coronata Scacchi, Phil. Moll. Sicil., II. p. 127, pi. xxiii. fig. 7, 1844. 



Scalaria crassilahrum Sowerby, Thes. Conch. Scalaria, p. 105, pi. xxxv. figs. 115, 116, 



1847. Tryon, Man., IX. p. 82, pi. xvii. fig. 32, 1887. 

 Scalaria ScaccJm Homes, Moll. Wienerbeck., I. p. 479, pi. xlvi. fig. 12, 1856. Jef- 

 freys, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 140, No. 20. 

 Scala (Opalia) scceva Morch, Cat. W. I. Scalidce, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila , 



VIII. Part II., 1876, p. 204, No. 38. 

 Scala [Opalia) suhvaricosa Danker, in Morch, Zoc. c^V., p. 204, No. 89; yslt. pumilio 



INIorch, loc. cit., p. 205. Not S. suhvaricosa Cantraine, 1842. 

 Scalaria " crassilabris Sowerby," Morch, loc. cit., p. 205. 

 Scalaria hellenica Watson, Chall. Gastrop., p. 143, 1886. Tryon, Man.. IX. p. 73, 



pi. XV. fig. 71, 1887. 

 ? Scalaria Leeana Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad., V. p. 526, pi. Ivii. fig. 34, 1882. Tryon, 



Man., IX. p. 82, pi. xvii. fig. 31, 1887. 

 '{Scalaria licarinata Sby., P. Z. S. 1844, p. 30; Thes. Conch. Scalaria, p. 104, pi. 



xxxv. figs. 113, 114, 1847. 



Habitat. JEgean Sea, Forbes; Mediterranean, Philippi and Jeffreys; Ma- 

 deira, Watson ; Canary Islands, 40-1260 fms., Jeffreys, MacAndrew; Fernando 

 Noronha, 7-25 fms., Challenger Expedition; Central America, Sowerby; West 

 Indies, St. Thomas, Anguilla, Bahamas, Morch; Philippines, Cuming; ? Sand- 

 wich Islands, Pease; off Havana, in 80 and 119 fms., Sigsbee; 8 fms., in Strait 

 of Florida, Dr. Rush; off Frying Pan Shoals, N. C, in 12 fms., Dr. Rush; 

 Samana Bay, Couthouy; off coast of North Carolina, 40-168 fms., U. S. Fish 

 Commission ; Vienna Miocene and Pliocene of Piedmont, Homes and Nyst. 

 April 16, 1889. 



