A. E. Verrill — Catalogue of Marine Mollusca. 
521 
length of body-whorl, 13 mm ; length of aperture, 10 mm ; breadth, 
1 o*2 mm ; length of hairs, l-3 mm . 
A variety (var. tiarella ) occurred in company with the typical form, 
at station 1026, 182 fathoms, in which the subsutural carina is well- 
developed, and crowned by its row of long hairs, but the other car- 
inse are nearly obsolete, and only bear rows of short inconspicuous 
hairs ; the epidermis is elsewhere thick and lainellose, not hairy. 
The spire is a little more elevated. 
Oil' Martha’s Vineyard, stations 869, 878, 939, 1025, 1026, 1033, 
1038, in 142 to 258 fathoms, 1880 and 1881, — U. S. Fish Com. A 
small specimen was taken in 1873, at station 21b, 52 to 90 fathoms, 
near C’ashe’s Ledge, off the coast of Maine, by the party on the 
“ Bache.” 
Twenty-three specimens, mostly preserved in alcohol, with the 
animals, are in the collection. They show considerable variation in 
the prominence of the spiral carinte and in the length of the epider- 
mal hairs on them. They also vary somewhat in the elevation of 
the spire, but in none is it so elevated as in the figures that Jef- 
freys and Sars give of T. vestita. 
Torellia vestita Jeffreys. 
Torellia vestita Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., iv. p. 244. pi. 4, fig. 1, 1867. 
Cr. O. Sars. MolL Reg. Arct. Xorvegne, p. 162. pi. 22, figs. 1, a, b, pi. xviii, fig. 14. 
Terrill. Amer. Journ. Sci., v. p. 15, 1873 l description). 
Smith and Harger, Trans. Conn. Acad., iii, p. 49, 1S74 (description). 
Plate XLII. figure 5. 
First taken, on our coast, in 1872, Gulf of Maine, 150 fathoms, by 
the Fish Com. party, on the “Bache.” Off Martha’s Vineyard, sta- 
tions 871, 872, 1038, in 86 to 146 fathoms, — U. S. Fish Com. 
Shetland, — Jeffreys, Lofoten I., 200 to 300 fathoms; west coast 
of Norway, 50 to 60 fathoms, — Sars. 
The specimens that I refer to this species differ from the preced- 
ing in not being spirally carinated, and in having a thinner epider- 
mis, which is covered pretty uniformly with small and short epider- 
mal hairs, which often appear to be arranged in transverse rows, 
along the lines of growth. The form of the shell and aperture is 
similar, but the spire appears to lie somewhat more elevated in this 
species, and the last whorl less swollen. The shell is thin and fra- 
gile. Possibly a larger series might show that they are only varie- 
ties of one species. 
