154 NEW-YORK FAUNA — MOLLUSCA. 
GENUS VELUTINA. Blainville. 
Animal scarcely spiral: edge of the mantle simple in front, and double in its circumference ; 
the inner lip being thicker and tentacular. ‘Tentacles large, conic, distant, with a frontal 
veil between them: eyes sessile at the base. Respiratory cavity large, with no trace of 
tube, and with two unequal oblique pectens. Orifice of the ovary at the base of the male 
organ, which lies at the origin of the right tentacle. Muscular impression crescent-shaped. 
Shell small, thin, subglobose, patelliform, composed of two rapidly enlarging volutions : 
aperture subovate ; lip thin, not joined behind. Usually covered with a velvet-like or 
powdery epidermis. 
VELUTINA LAVIGATA. 
PLATE XXIII. FIG. 254, 
Helix levigata. Lin. 
Velutina capuloidea. BLAINVILLE, Malacol. pl. 42, fig. 4. 
V. rupicola. Conrar, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Vol 6, p. 266, pl. 11, fig. 17, 18. 
V. id. Russet, Essex Jour. Nat. Hist. Vol. 1, p. 66, 
Galericulum levigatum. Brown, Conch. pl 38, figs. 35, 36. 
V. levigata. Gou.p, Invertebrata of Mass, p. 24], fig. 159, 
Description. Shell small, oval, very thin and fragile. Whorls three ; the body-whorl with 
faint concentric striz: spire slightly raised, smooth at the apex. Aperture regularly oval. 
Epidermis, when not abraded, thick and raised, more conspicuous on the concentric lines. 
Color. Epidermis dusky brown, with numerous revolving raised rufous lines ; these are 
slightly irregular and raised, amounting to twenty or twenty-two on the body-whorl: within 
pearly white. Length, 0°3; of aperture, 0°25. 
This is found among seaweed, and in the stomachs of fishes on the northern coast. It 
occurs on the shores of Europe. 
VELUTINA ZONATA. 
PLATE XXIII. FIG. 253. 
Galericulum ovatum? Coutnovy, Bost. Jour. Nat. His. Vol. 2, p. 110. 
Velutina zonata, GovuLp, Invertebrata of Mass. p. 242, fig. 160. 
Description. Shell small, ovate, moderately thin; spire not raised. Whorls three ; the two 
upper faintly distinct: suture deeply impressed. Surface with a calcareous coating, minutely 
striated with revolving lines and superficial concentric furrows. Aperture regularly oval : 
lip expanded, exceedingly thin and fragile; pillar-lip flattened, and with a small superficial 
fold. 
Color. Epidermis whitish or reddish brown, with numerous bands of brown: pillar white. 
Length. 0°4. Width, 0-5. 
I am not aware that this species, which has been found along the shores of Massachusetts, 
and obtained from the stomachs of fishes, has been yet detected on the coast of this State. 
