SEARLESIA. 135 



Genus MEYERIA, Dunker and Metzger, 1878. 



Meyeria alba (Jeffreys). Plate XIII, figs. 15, 1(3. 



1858. Tritonium pusillum, M. Sars, Forh. Norsk. Vicl. Selslc, p. 71. 



1873. Latirus albus, Jeffreys, in Wyville Thomson's Depths of the Sea, p. 464, fig. 77. 



1874. Lathijrus albeUtis, Danker unci Metzger, Zool. Erg. Nordseefahrt., pp. 257, 264, pi. v, fig. 4. 



1878. Meyeria intsiUa, Gr. O. Sars, Moll. Eeg. Arct. Norv., p. 245, pi. xiii, fig. 8. 



1879. Metzrjeria alba, Norman, Jouru. of Conch., vol. ii, p. 56. 



1887. Meyeria alba, Kobelt, Icon, schalentrag. europ. Meeresconch., vol. i, p. 31, pi. vi, fig. 21. 

 1901. Metzgeria alba, Friele, Norske Nordh. Exped. (Mollusca), vol. iii, p. 95. 

 1911. Meyeria albella, Sykes, Proc. Malac. Soc, vol. ix, p. 336. 



Specific Characters. — Shell rather small, solid, elongato-fusiforin, turreted ; 

 whorls 7, convex, excavated below the suture, regularly diminishing in size to an 

 acute point, the last much tlie largest, excavated below ; ornamented by about 

 twelve raised longitudinal costas and hj fine spiral striations ; suture clearly 

 marked, oblique; mouth pyriform, acutely angulate above, half the length of the 

 shell ; canal narrow, fairly long, inclining to the left ; outer lip thin, expanded. 



Dimensions. — L. 20 mm. B. 8 mm. 



Distribution. — Recent: Finmark, Lofoten Islands. 



Fossil : Waltonian Crag ; Little Oakley. Pleistocene : Wexford 

 gravels (A. Bell). 



BemarJcs. — The immature specimen here figured was obtained at Oaklej^ It 

 corresponds in form with a full-grown shell from the Lofoten Islands (fig. 15) 

 received from Dr. Nordgaard. Mr. E. A. Smith, of the British Museum (Natural 

 History), to whom I have shown them, considers the identification correct. 



Genus SEARLESIA, nov. 



Generic Characters. — Shell solid, fusiform; apex blunt but not bulbous; 

 ornamented by spiral lines or ribs and by strong longitudinal costse ; canal usually 

 short, open, straight or bending slightly to the left. 



Tyjje. — Trophon costifer, S. V. Wood. 



Bemarhs. — The nomenclature of the group of shells, for which I propose the 

 generic name of Searlesla in memory of my old friend and master Searles V. 

 Wood, is one as to which much difference of opinion has existed. The fossil 

 originally described in 1811 by Parkinson as Murex rugosus=Trophon costifer, 

 S. V. Wood, has been referred since to Fasus, Trophon, Ghrijsodomus, Buccino- 

 fusus,] Latirus, and Urosalpinx, none of which genera seem specially appropriate 



