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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  M.VLACOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETr. 
  

  

  The 
  type 
  was 
  marked 
  bj' 
  Jeffreys 
  as 
  ' 
  n.sp.' 
  ; 
  but 
  he 
  had 
  not 
  drawn 
  

   up 
  any 
  diagnosis. 
  It 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  nearest 
  to 
  N. 
  latericeus, 
  Moller, 
  but 
  

  

  has 
  more 
  rapidly 
  increasing 
  whorls, 
  the 
  canal 
  is 
  more 
  widely 
  open, 
  

   and 
  the 
  spirals 
  are 
  finer 
  and 
  more 
  numerous. 
  

  

  JSTEPTUNE.i 
  (SiPHo) 
  PROPiNQCTA 
  (Alder), 
  

  

  Fmus 
  projimqiius, 
  Alder, 
  Cat. 
  Moll. 
  jS^orthumb. 
  Durham, 
  p. 
  63 
  (Trans. 
  

  

  Tyneside 
  Club). 
  

   Neptunea 
  propinqua, 
  Alder: 
  Kobelt, 
  Icon. 
  Europ. 
  Meeresconch., 
  i, 
  

   p. 
  76. 
  

  

  " 
  Porcupine" 
  Expedition, 
  1869, 
  Stations 
  15, 
  17, 
  18, 
  24, 
  30, 
  68, 
  70. 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  From 
  Gi'eenland 
  south 
  to 
  the 
  British 
  Isles. 
  

  

  A 
  Pliocene 
  and 
  post-Tertiary 
  fossil. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Marshall 
  notes: 
  "In 
  the 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  'Valorous' 
  Expedition, 
  

   Jeffreys 
  mistakenly 
  recorded 
  this 
  species 
  from 
  ' 
  Bay 
  of 
  Biscay, 
  109- 
  

   1380f.', 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Porcupine' 
  Expedition 
  of 
  1870, 
  instead 
  of 
  from 
  West 
  

   of 
  Ireland, 
  Stations 
  24 
  and 
  30, 
  in 
  the 
  expedition 
  of 
  1869. 
  Canon 
  

   Norman 
  has 
  also 
  recorded 
  it 
  from 
  ' 
  I^. 
  of 
  Hebrides, 
  189-530 
  f.. 
  

   Porcupine 
  Exp., 
  1869 
  ', 
  instead 
  of 
  'Lightning' 
  Expedition, 
  1868." 
  

  

  Neptunea. 
  (Sipho) 
  pnpuLA 
  (Fischer). 
  

   Fusus 
  pupula, 
  Fischer, 
  Journ. 
  de 
  Conch., 
  p. 
  274, 
  1882. 
  

  

  "Porcupine" 
  Expedition. 
  

  

  A 
  box 
  in 
  the 
  Museum, 
  named 
  piipula, 
  contains 
  three 
  shells 
  (two 
  

   adult), 
  and 
  is 
  labelled 
  "9, 
  6, 
  165fath., 
  90fath. 
  1870". 
  Assuming 
  

   that 
  the 
  young 
  shell 
  is 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  the 
  others, 
  we 
  may 
  also 
  refer 
  here 
  

   a 
  shell 
  from 
  Station 
  3, 
  I 
  am 
  not 
  sure 
  of 
  which 
  cruise, 
  lleverting 
  to 
  

   the 
  former 
  label, 
  these 
  stations 
  were, 
  from 
  their 
  depths, 
  in 
  the 
  cruise 
  

   of 
  1869, 
  while 
  Jelfrej's 
  in 
  his 
  MS. 
  says 
  the 
  species 
  came 
  from 
  the 
  

   cruise 
  of 
  1870. 
  All 
  one 
  can 
  really 
  say 
  is 
  that 
  this 
  species 
  was 
  found 
  

   during 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  cruises. 
  

  

  Xeptunea 
  (Sipho) 
  Sabini 
  (Gray). 
  

  

  Baccinum 
  Sahinii, 
  Gray, 
  Supp. 
  and 
  App. 
  Parry's 
  First 
  Voyage, 
  

  

  p. 
  cxl, 
  1824. 
  

   Fusus 
  Sabini, 
  Gray: 
  Jeffreys, 
  Ann. 
  jSTat. 
  Hist., 
  vol. 
  xix, 
  p. 
  327, 
  1877. 
  

   "Porcupine" 
  Expedition, 
  1869, 
  Stations 
  11, 
  13; 
  1870, 
  Stations 
  13, 
  22. 
  

  

  