588 PLIOCENE MOLLUSCA. 



Remarlis. — Two varieties of tliis widely diffused and abundant recent form 

 were recorded by Wood from the Engb'sli Crag in 1848, one of them [op. cit. 

 pi. xix, fig. 1 })) having a contorted, the other (fig. 1 a) a straight spire, but in his 

 tabular list of 1874 (p. 208) he referred the latter to E. hitenncdla. Both as a 

 recent and a fossil shell E. foHta appears to vary considerably in form, size, the 

 number of its whorls and the curvature of the spire. ^ 



The specimen from Oakley here figured agrees closely with Wood's shells, 

 including a slightly l)ent spire. Mr. A. Bell also states {op. cit., p. 146) that there 

 is a perfect example similarly curved in the Warburton Collection of St, Erth 

 fossils. 



Eulima stenostoma, Jeffreys. Plate L, fig. 11. 



1858—84. Eulima stenostoma, Jeffreys, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [3], vol. ii, p. 128, pi. v, fig. 7, 1858 ; 



Brit. Conch., vol. iv, p. 207, 1867 ; vol. v, p. 215, pi. Ixxvii, fig. 6, 1869 ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [4], 



vol. xix, p. 317, 1877 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, p. 371, 1884. 

 1859. Eulima stenostoma, G. B. Sowerbj, 111. Ind. Brit. Shells, pi. xv, fig. 24. 

 1873. Eulima stenostoma, Weinkauft', Cat. europ. Meeresconch., p. 23, no. 398. 

 1878. Eulima stenostoma, G. O. Sars, Moll. Reg. Arct. Norv., pp. 211, 360, vol. xi, fig. 21. 

 1884. Italiella stenostoma, Monterosato, Nomen. Gen. e Spec. Conch. Medit., p. 104. 

 1890. Eulima (Italiella) stenostoma, Cams, Prod. Pann. Medit., vol. ii, p. 290. 

 1893—98. Eulima stenostoma, A. Bell, Pioc. Roy. Irish Acad. [3], vol. ii, p. 629, 1893 ; Trans. Eoj. 



Geol. Soc. Cornwall, pi. xii, p. 146, 1898. 

 1898. Eulima (Italiella) stenostoma, Bncqiioy, Dautzenberg et Dollfus, vol. ii, p. 795. 

 1898. Eulima stenostoma, Posselt, Medd. om Griiul., vol. xxiii, p. 222. 

 1901. Eulima stenostoma, Conch. Soc. List, Journ. of Conch., p. 21, no. 472. 

 1905. Eulima (Italiella) stenostoma, Kobelt, Icon, schaleutrag. europ. Meeresconch., vol. iii, p. 203, 



pi. Ixxviii, figs. 12, 13. 

 1915. Melanella (Eulima) stenostoma, Johnson, Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Occ. papers, vol. vii. Fauna of 



New England, No. 13, p. 91. 



Specific Characters. — Shell thin, slender, elongate, subulate; whorls 9, smooth, 

 compressed, gently swelling downwards, the last much the largest, nearly one-half 

 the total length ; spire attenuate, drawn out, ending abruptly in a blunt and 

 semi-globular point; suture oblique, well defined; mouth long, narrow, acutely 

 angulate above, round and expanded below; outer lip thin, expanded towards the 

 base ; inner lip reflected, covering the lower part of the pillar. 



Birneiisiovs. — L. 8 mm. B. 2 mm. 



DUtrlhiition. — Recent -. Shetland (rare), Ijofoten Islands, Norwegian coast, 

 Finmark to the Christiania fiord, Greenland. New Phigland — St. Lawrence. Bay 

 of Biscay, Mediterranean. 



Fossil: St. Erth, Coralline Crag: Sutton. Waltonian: Walton- 

 on-Naze. 



^ Kobelt figures 8 specimens (op. cit.) under this name differing widely from each other. 



