2GG PLIOCENE MOLLUSCA. 



Romarli-^. — The shell figured under this name is from the Sedgwick Museum 

 at Cambridge, where it has been labelled Glavatula plidfero. I cannot think it 

 corresponds closely enough to the imperfect specimen upon which the latter 

 species was founded (Mon. Crag Moll., pt. i, p. G4, pi. vii, fig. 15) to justify that 

 reference. 



Although belonging to the same group as the one next to be described it 

 appears to me a distinct form, deserving notice ; as I cannot find anything agree- 

 ing with it, I dedicate it as a new species to the memory of my revered friend 

 and master, S. V. Wood. 



Raphitoma Smith- Woodwardi, sp. nov. Plate XXX, fig. G. 



1874. Pleiirotoma Bertrandi?, S. V. Wood, Mon. Crag Moll., 1st Suppl., pt. ii, p. 179, add. pi., 

 fig. 4. 



Specific Characters. — Shell strong, fairly large, slender, subfusiform ; whorls 8, 

 slightly convex, the last about half the total length, excavated below ; ornamented 

 by eight or nine longitudinal costge, distinctly sculptured, but not very prominent, 

 narrower than the intervening spaces, and by very fine inconspicuous spiral 

 striation ; spire elongate, regularly diminishing in size towards a blunt apex ; 

 suture well marked, but not deep ; mouth oval, angulate above ; canal short and 

 open. 



Dimensions. — L. 17 mm. B. 6 mm. 



Distribution. — Not known living. 



Fossil : Coralline Crag : Boyton. Butleyan : Butley. Probably 

 elsewhere in Red Crag. 



Remarks. — There are three specimens from Boyton in one box at the British 

 Museum labelled Mangelia Bertrandi ?, Avith the doubt as to the identification of 

 which I agree, the Pleiirotoma Bertrandi of Payraudeau being a very different 

 species, as may be seen by a reference to the original figure of its author,^ or its 

 reproduction by Prof. Kobelt." 



The drawing published by Wood in 1874 under the name of P. Bertrandi 

 [op. cit.) seems intended for our shell, although it does not appear to have been 

 very successful, the error in its identification having been due to the fact that, in 

 his first volume of 183G, Philippi had figured a specimen under that name (oj). cit., 

 pi. xi, fig. 20) to which Wood's shell had some resem})lance ; in his second volume 

 (p. 1G8, 1844), however, the former admitted his mistake and referred it to a 

 different species. The mistake remained, the acknowledgment of it was over- 

 looked. 



1 Cat. Moll. Corse, p. 144, pi. vii, figs. 12, 13, 1826. 



- Icou. schalentrag. europ. Meeresconch., vol. iii, p. 333, pi. xciii, figs. 6, 7. 



