A. E. VerriH — Catalogue of Marine MoUusca. 
507 
The following species, of this family, apparently do not belong to 
the New England region, but have been found in the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence, or on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland : 
Sipho lividus (Morch) ? 
Fjsus (Sipho) lividu-s Morch. Journ. de Conch., x. p 36, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1S62. i non Phil- 
ippi) 
? Xeptunoa i Sipho) terebralis Gould, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vii, p. 326, I860; 
Otia Conch., p. 123. * 
This species was described from the Banks of Newfoundland. 
Morch says that it much resembles S. Spitzbergensi s Reeve. It may 
be the species that has been recorded under the latter name, from 
the Gulf of St. Lawrence, by Whiteaves.* 
Mr. J. F. Whiteaves has kindly sent me a specimen of the shell 
called by him F. Spitzbergensis , from the Orphan Bank, Gulf of St. 
Lawrence, containing the animal. Principal J. W. Dawson has also 
sent me three specimens of the same shell, from oft' Metis. 
This shell is of moderate size, solid, purplish brown, long-fusiform, 
with a high, tapering, subacute spire, eight or nine well-rounded 
whorls, covered with thick, coarse, elevated, rounded or flat, spiral 
cinguli, separated by deep, square-cut grooves, about as wide ; about 
nine to eleven cinguli on the penultimate whorl. Apemire pyriform. 
Canal only moderately long, narrow, and nearly straight ; columella 
sigmoid, nearly straight in the middle, not much excavated. Outer 
lip, in the largest specimens, broadly rounded and with the edge 
somewhat flaring or expanded in the middle, strongly crenate and 
ribbed within ; inside of aperture pinkish, orange-brown, or bluish 
* M> Jeffreys tin Ann. and Hag.. April, 1876. p. 327) united both the 6'. tortuosus 
and 5. Spitzbergensis (Reeve. Belcher's Yoy.. ii. p. 395, pi. 32, figs. 6a, b, 1855). with 
jS. togatus Morch. 1869, S. tbur Morch. 1869. and 5. Pfaffii Morch, under the name of 
Ftsus Sabinii (Gray and gave the Gulf of St. Lawrence (colL Whiteaves) as one of its 
localities. The Gulf shell examined by him was probably the same that I have here 
described as S. lividus ?. I cannot believe that this is the shell named Sabin ii bv 
Gray (see p. 503), nor can I identify it positively with 5. .8) tsbergensis. Jeffreys has 
given no description of this shell, so far as I know, by which we could judge as to 
what he thinks its specific characters. In another article (Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 
xxv, p. 192. 1876) lie gives us a different arrangement for we read. “ Fusus tortuosus i 
Reeve. 1855, = F. Sabinii (Gray). Hancock, 1846. Not Bucciuum (Fusus) Sabini, 
Gray.” and F. Spitzbergensis was identified with Xeptunea terebralis Gould. According 
to Friele and others there are several very distinct species in this set. S. ebur, as 
determined by Friele. is widely different from our shell, having a short aud wide canal, 
while S. tortuosus Reeve is closely allied to S. pygmceus. 
Trass. Costs. Acad., Yol. Y. 61 
June, 1882. 
