284 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



Pleurotomella (Phymorhynchus) castanea Dall. 



Plate 1, figure 1. 



Pleurotomella castanea Dall, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1895, 18, p. 15. 



Shell polished, tliiii, resembling P. cingulata, Dall, of a chestnut-bro\rn color, 

 fading to a paler pinkish-brown, with seven whorls ; the nucleus eroded, the early 

 whorls with four or five flattened elevated spirals with wider interspaces in front 

 of a somewhat sloping anal fasciole, more or less reticulated by narrow, slender, 

 irregular, elevated riblets in harmony with the lines of growth, and which form 

 on the fasciole delicate arches concave forward ; the suture is appressed ; on the 

 body are about twenty spirals, stronger at the shoulder, smaller and closer 

 forward, the wide interspaces finely spirally striate, while the most prominent 

 spirals are undulate or obscurely nodulous; the transverse sculpture is nearly 

 obsolete and hardly to be distinguished from the incremental lines ; aperture 

 elongate, oval ; outer lip thin, sharp, crenulated by the sculpture, but not lirate ; 

 anal sulcus shallow, wide, directly in front of the suture; body with a thin wash 

 of callus; pillar thin, gyrate, attenuated in front, forming a narrowly pervious 

 axis, the whole of a pinkish-brown color ; canal short, shallow, not recurved. 

 Height of shell, 53 ; of last whorl, 38 ; of aperture, 28 ; diameter, 23 mm. 



U. S. S. " Albatross," station 3400, in 1322 fathoms, ooze, temperature 

 36° F. ; eastward from the Galapagos Islands. U. S. N. Mus. 123,134. 



This differs from P. cingulafa Dall by its smaller size, more sloping whorls, 

 more delicate and reticulate sculpture, and by its pervious axis. The animal is 

 blind, and there is no operculum. There is a distinct muzzle into which the 

 proboscis is retracted when at rest, as described under P/^Kro^OOTeZ/a argeta in 1889, 

 and at page 258 of this report. Specimens were also obtained at station 3374, 

 Gulf of Panama, in 1823 fathoms, ooze, bottom temperature 36°. 4 ; and at station 

 3413, in 1360 fathoms, ooze, near the Galapagos Islands, temperature 36°F. 



Pleurotomella (Phymorhynchus) oceanica Dall, n. sp. 



Shell short, stout, white, the spire shorter tlian the aperture, including about 

 six whorls ; nucleus eroded, whorls rounded, but the shoulder rather posterior, 

 giving a subtabulate aspect to the wiiorls ; suture distinct, not chanuelled; axial 

 sculpture of fine, close, subcqual lines in harmony with the lines of growth; 

 spiral sculpture of numerous fiat, longitudinally striated straplikc slightly elevated 

 bauds, with subequal interspaces about half a millimeter wide, or less ; there is a 

 slight arcuation in the lines of growth but no anal fasciole ; aperture pyriform, 

 outer lip thin, simple, sharp, with no anal sulcus ; body with a thin wash of white 

 callus; pillar short, twisted but not pervious, obliquely attenuated in front; 

 canal hardly defined, wide, very short, slightly recurved; alt. 25 ; of last whorl, 

 20 ; of aperture, 15 ; max. lat. 15 mm. 



U. S. S. "Albatross," station 3681, in Mid-Pacific, north latitude 28° 23', 



