A. E. Verrill — Catalogue of Marine Mollusca. 
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preserved, and a little curved forward at base (the end of the canal is 
broken oft’). Epidermis greenish yellow, somewhat lamellose along 
the lines of growth, which are very distinct. Shell bluish white, thin, 
translucent. Operculum broad ear-shaped, or ovate, with a broadly 
rounded angle on the middle of the inner edge; small end some- 
what incurved, subacute ; larger end narrowed, obtuse. 
Length, to base of canal, 55 mm ; breadth, 2 7 1,1 m ; length of spire, 
from aperture, 33 mm ; breadth of aperture, 13 mm . 
Siplio latericeus (Moll.) Sars. 
Fusus latericeus M oiler, Kroyer’s Tidss., iv, p. 88, 1842. 
Fusus ( Tritonofusus ) latericeus Morcli, Rink’s Gronland, p. 85, 1857, 
Sipho latericeus G. 0. Sars, Moll. Reg. Arct. Norv., p. 276, pi. 15, fig. 8; pi. x, fig. 
24 (dentition). 
This species, which inhabits Greenland and the northern coast of 
Norway and Finmark (20 to 30 fathoms), has been recorded from the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence by Dr. Dawson and by Whiteaves, but I have 
seen no American examples. 
Bradelle Dank, G. St. Lawr., one living, — Whiteaves. Spitzber- 
gen, 146 to 357 fathoms, — Friele. 
Sipho Ossiani (Friele) 
Neptunea Ossiani Friele, Catal. Norweg. Nordm. Exp. Spitz., Moll., p. 279, 1879, 
(by typ. error Ossiania.) 
A very interesting shell, of large size, which appears to belong to 
this species, was obtained near the Grand Bank, in 180 fathoms, and 
presented to the U. S. Fish Commission by Capt. McCormick and 
crew, schooner “ Wachusett,” of the Gloucester fishing fleet. The 
outer lip and end of the canal are, unfortunately, badly broken. 
Another example, of smaller size, has been sent to me by Principal 
J. W. Dawson, who dredged it at Murray Bay, in the mouth of the 
St. Lawrence River. 
This shell has a rather long spire, the upper whorls increasing- 
more slowly in size than the lower, so that the upper portion is some- 
what cylindrical ; the suture is impressed ; whorls eight ; lower whorls 
strongly convex, somewhat ventricose; spiral sculpture strong and 
rather coarse, fiat, raised cinguli, often with a slight median groove, 
separated by square-cut grooves of about the same width on the 
sixth and seventh whorls, but broader than the cinguli on the body- 
whorl; on the lower whorls there are twelve or thirteen cinguli. 
Whole surface covered with strong raised lines of growth, which 
recede strongly on the convexity of the whorls. Nucleus rather 
