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aperture longer than the remaiuiiig portion of the spire ; the sculpture consists of 

 a strong spiral keel, peripheral on the spire with more or less uodulatiou (in cue 

 specimen with fifteen small modules on the penultimate whorl, but none on the 

 last whorl ; another has them obsolete on the spire), stronger on the earlier whorls 

 when present, an obscure ridge in front of the suture, stronger on the earlier 

 whorls, faint spiral striation on the anal fasciole between the ridge and the keel, 

 the whole surface covered with a microscopic, close, impressed, vermicular net- 

 work of fine lines anastomosing in every direction ; on the last whorl the keel is 

 well above the periphery ; base evenly rounded, aperture ample, anal sulcus at 

 the suture wide and deep ; outer lip thin, arcuately produced ; pillar lip smooth, 

 with a glaze of callus, the plication on the proximal part of the pillar lagging 

 behind the aperture ; canal very wide and short with an obsolete fasciole. Length 

 of four whorls, 15.0; of last whorl, 12.5 ; of aperture, 9.5 ; max. diam. 8.0 mm. 



U. S. S. " Albatross," station 2923, off San Diego, California, in 822 fathoms, 

 mud, bottom temperature 39°E. U. S. N. Mus. 122,573. 



Like the preceding species this has the plication on the pillar hardly visible 

 from the aperture. 



Borsonia (Borsonella) hooveri Arnold. 



. Plate 13, figure 7. 



Pleurotoma (Borsonia) hooveri Arnold, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1903, 3, p. 201, pi. 10, 

 fig. 1. 



Shell small, chalky-white, covered with a poHshed olive-gray periostracum ; 

 apex eroded, leaving indications of about six whorls ; general form biconic with 

 a single sharp keel at the shoulder, between which and the suture the whorl is 

 more or less excavated ; suture distinct, the margin in front of it turgid, giving 

 an effect as if minutely channelled ; excavated area forming the anal fasciole, with 

 arcuate growth lines, crossed by about six faint incised distant spiral lines ; keel 

 somewhat above the periphery, with a rounded and somewhat compressed edge 

 without waves or uodulations; surface in front of the keel moderately convex, 

 spirally sculptured by obsolete distant lines crossed by fine irregular slightly ele- 

 vated incremental lines, which, in spots, produce a vermiculate aspect; base a 

 little constricted behind the short, nearly straight, attenuated canal; body with 

 a wash of callus ; outer lip with a wide, moderately deep, rounded anal sulcus ; in 

 front of the keel markedly protraclive, thin and simple; pillar straight, moder- 

 ately callous, with a single strong almost horizontal plait near its insertion, ante- 

 riorly obliquely truncate, twisted, not pervious ; canal very short. Lon. of 

 (decollate) shell, 14.7 ; of last whorl, 10; of aperture, 7-5 ; max. diam. 8 mm. 



Pleistocene of San Pedro, Caiifornia, Arnold. 



U. S. S. " Albatross," station 3431, off Mazatlan, Mex., in 995 fathoms, mud, 

 bottom temperature 37° B\ U.S.N. Mus. 123,110. Also at station 3392, Gulf of 

 Panama, in 1270 fathoms, hard bottom, temperature 30°. 4 ; and station 3376, ou 

 the coast ol Ecuador, in 1132 fathoms, ooze, temperature 30° F. 



