TARANIS MORCHII. 301 



convex, the last sub-tumid, two-thirds the total length, excavated below, snb- 

 angulate above ; ornamented by about 20 distinct longitudinal ribs, oblique or 

 sigmoid, which do not reach the base of the shell, closely crowded together ; 

 intersected by fine spiral lines, clearly shown on the back of the canal ; spire 

 turreted, gradually diminishing in size ; apex blunt ; suture deep ; mouth oval ; 

 canal short, turning slightly to the left. 



Dimensions. — L. 7 mm. B. 4 mm. 



Distrihution. — Fossil : Newbournian Crag : Sutton. 



Pleistocene : Bridlington. 



Remarks. — The fossil here figured is from Mr. Headley's collection, and was 

 found at Bridlington. In sculpture it agrees more or less nearly with an 

 imperfect specimen from the Newbournian Crag of Siitton described by Wood, 

 which cannot now be traced. The present shell, however, is smaller, and the 

 spire is shorter in proportion. It corresponds to some extent with one figured by 

 Mr. Friele as BeJa obliqua, Gr. 0. Sars,^ as to which he says it is easily distinguished 

 by its sigmoid ribs. Prof. Sars' original figure of B. obliqua^ reproduced by 

 Prof. Kobelt ^ is, however, materially different. 



Genus TARANIS, Jeffreys, 1870. 

 Taranis Morchii (Malm). Plate XXXII, fig. 34. 



1863. Trophon Miirchi, Malm, K. Vet. Vitt.-Samh. Gotliebar^ Handl., vol. viii, p. l.SO, pi. ii, 



fig. 15. 

 1870. Taranis Morchi, Jeffreys, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [4], vol. v, p. 447. 

 1878. Taranis Morchii, G. O. Sais, Moll. Eeg. Arct. Norv., p. 220, pi. xvii, fig. 8. 

 1882. Taranis Morchii, Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad., vol. v, p. 486, pi. Ivii, tig. 18. 

 1884. Baphnella (Taranis) Morchii, Tryon, Man. Conch. [1], vol. vi, p. 315, pi. xxix, fig. 66. 

 1887. Taranis cirrata, Kobelt, Martini und Chemnitz, Conch. Cab., ed. 2, vol. iv (Pleurotomidse), 



p. 168, pi. xxxiii, fig. 10. 

 1892. Taranis cirrata, Locard, Coq. mar. cotes France, p. 112, fig. 100. 

 1901. Taranis cirrata, Friele, Norske Nordh. Exped. (Mollusca), pt. iii, p. 86. 

 1901. Taranis cirrata, Br^gger, Norges geol. imders^gelse, vol. xxxi, p. 658, pi. xvii, fig. 20. 

 1905. Taranis cirrata, Kobelt, Icon, schalentrag. europ. Meeresconch., vol. iii, p. 323, pi. xciii, fig. 1. 



Specific Gharacfers. — (Of the Manxland specimen.) Shell minute, ovate, subfusi- 

 form ; spire very short, turreted, rapidly diminishing in size, ending in an obtuse 

 rounded apex ; whorls 5, angulate, with a flattened shelf below the suture, the last 

 ventricose, much the largest, three-fourths the total length, excavated below, the 

 body-whorl being ornamented by sharp and prominent spiral ridges, two of which 



1 Norske Nordh. Exped. (Mollusca), pt. ii, p. 7, pi. xv, figs. 16, 17, 1886. 



2 Moll. Eeg. Arct. Norv., p. 226, pi. xvi, fig. 6, 1878. 



3 Icon, schalenti-ag. europ. Meeresconch., vol. iii, p. 250, pi. Ixxxiii, fig. 4, 1905. 



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