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A. E. Verrill—Dredgings on the Coast of New England. 15 
(g, 1) Astarte lens (dwarf var.); A. guadrans Gould: of the Gas- 
teropods some of the more important were +(0) seaabinahoe 
teak « vestita Jeftr reys + Velutinies iis : 
obscura ; M. cinerea Couth. ; ; Scaphander puncto-striatus H. & A. 
an adult ae. 1:15 of an inch long, °75 broad, with a firm, 
rather thick shell, destitute of epidermis, but with punctate lines 
upper valve gore — a little projecting posteriorly, much larger and more pro- 
minent, with a d emargination anteriorly, its surface with concentric 
lel and radi 3h or rows of small conical vesicles; that of the lower valve 
a deep, angular byssal notch anteriorly, its surface with concentric lamelle 
ad ao radiating ridges. Color yellowish-white. Length -30 of an inch; height 
thickness “10, 
r St. George’s Bank @ i in 150 fathoms, mud (living); east of St. George’s 
@) ts "430 fathoms, os and gravel (dead, but fresh valves). 
otomella Pac ackardti V., sp. and gen. nov. 
Shel Pomen. fragile, translucent, pale flesh- colored, moderately stout, with an 
. acute, s mewhat turreted spine. Whorls nine; the apical Meer for about two 
and 0 halt ored this 
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cave band below the suture, corresponding to the posterior notch in the outer lip; 
the whorls are crossed below the sub- neue band by a ete va Dera prominent, 
rounded, somewhat oblique ribs, most prominent on the m of the whorl, but 
not a angulated ; on the last whorl these ribs become very 0 moo below the middle, 
and follow the curve of the edge of the lip, nearly fading out para orly 
face between the ribs is marked by faint lines of growth and by fine neg slighty 
i ribs wi They 
0. 
aan on the lower part of the 0 —— and are very faint on the ‘sub- 
utura j 
gro + e ape is S hast wide 
very thin, sharp, prominent presto separated aan e ocuine Ww. y ‘a wi 
pr hg a above, sepa vot the cieounnferen 
absence of eyes and operculum, great ae of the e posterior sinus, and character of 
the apex, indicate that this ae st a new al ch I purpose to call 
rotomelia, living s 
e 
} Torellia vestita? Jeffrey 
i i ize somewhat resembles large specimens of Page 
small and low; whorls four, the last : in 
bulk of the sh re deep. Umbilicus small and , somewhat co’ 
by the reflected outer edge of the columella, which recedes in front and joins the 
uter lip a ob , forming a broad, shallow, anterior 
imner border of the columella a little excavated near the whorl, eed 
Swollen in the m Outer lip s , regularly rounded Epidermis 4 
with conspicuous lin wth, finely reticulated vi 
greenis i 08 Of gro — hair-like processes, 
hes. along which arise numerous, slender, but short, hair-like . 8 
beneath the epidermis white, nearly smooth. Length ‘30 of an inch, breadth °40, 
ae of ee "24, breadth *1 
n, dead and inhabited by a Sipunculus, was found. 
