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deceived Gwyn Jeffreys at first sight, who at once called them 

 JV. sordida, but corrected himself on a second examination. I have 

 dredged it only once, and that was on a shallow bank in the centre of 

 the Doggerbank, in ten fathoms. 



var. conico-ovalis Jeff. — This is a rare variety, and only occa- 

 sionally met with. Mr. Bartlet Span's collection contains an elongated 

 monstrosity of this form, found at Laugharne, which has the 

 proportions of Faluditia vivipara. An excellent figure of it will be 

 found in lourn. of Conch., IQOS) vol. xi., p. 159, and it also appeared 

 on the title-page of the volume ending in 1906. 



N. glaucina var. lactea Jeff. — Alderney (Marquand) ! 

 N. affinis Gmel. — Off the Butt of Lewis, 545f. (Simpson) ! 

 Adeorbis subcarinatus var. interrupta Marsh. — Achil Island. 



Cerithiopsis barleei Jeff. — Off the Tripoli coast 4o-i2of, and 

 Adventure Bank i2of. (H. M.S. 'Shearwater')! Tangiers Bay 35f., 

 and Adventure Bank 92f. (' Porcupine ') ! 



A specimen of Triforis bigemnia Watson, two specimens of Pedicu- 

 laria sicida Swainson, and several examples of Volutomitra grcznlandica, 

 have been dredged in the Atlantic off Ireland, in 55of., by the Irish 

 Fishery Board. 



Cassidaria tyrrhena Chem. — Ten specimens of this shell were 

 exhibited at the Conchological Society's meeting at Manchester on 

 May 12, 1915, from the collection of Mr. G. M. Morris, and stated 

 to have been " dredged alive recently off the south-west coast of 

 Ireland, in deep water, by Captain Applegate." 



At the same meeting, and from the same source, five specimens of 

 Ranella gigantea Lam. were exhibited, which were stated to have 

 been " obtained in good condition," while another example was 

 dredged in the same district by the Irish Fishery Board in 287-354^ 



Buccinopsis striata Jeff. — Gwyn Jeffreys' detailed notes of this 

 species are quoted in Journ. Malac, 191 1, vol. xi., pp. 342-3, with a 

 woodcut. Six specimens were dredged in the ' Porcupine ' expedition 

 of 1869 north of the Shetlands, in 345^ None of them contained 

 the animal, and as the operculum is also unknown its generic position 

 cannot be absolutely determined, but Mr. Sykes has nevertheless 

 altered the name to Buccimwi oblitum, because, he says, the name 

 Jeffreys gave is already in use. But the name Jeffreys gave (and 

 under which it was published) was Buccinopsis striata ; his Buccinum 

 striatum is only a MS. synonym, and the shell may belong to either 

 genus. 



I do not know how far Mr. Sykes' figure of the shell is correct, as 

 I have never seen it, but that figure cannot be Jeffreys' type, as the 



