154 PLIOCENE MOLLUSCA. 



Volutopsis norvegica (Cliemnitz). Plate XV, fig. 1. 



1788. Strombns Norvegicus, Chemnitz, Couch. Cab., vol. x, p. 218, tab. clvii, figs. 1497, 1498. 



1847. Fusus Norvegicus, Eeeve, Conch. Icon., vol. iv (Fusus), pi. xii, fig. 47. 



1850. Trophon Norvegicum, S. V. Wood, Mon. Crag Moll., pt. ii, p. 312, pi. xxxi, fig. 1. 



1853. Fnsvs Norvegicus, Forbes and Hauley, Brit. Moll., vol. iii, p. 428, pi. cvii. 



1867. Fusus Norvegicus, Jeffreys, Brit. Couch., vol. iv, p. 329, pi. Ixxxv, fig. 3. 



1878. Vohdopsis Norvegica, G. O. Sars, Moll. Reg. Arct. Norv., p. 268, pi. xv, fig. 1. 



1881. Nepttmea norvegica, Kobelt, Martini und Chemnitz, Couch. Cab., ed. 2, vol. iii (Purpuraceae), 



p. 59, pi. xxxiii, figs. 6, 7. 

 1889. Volutopsis Norwegica, Van den Broeck, Bull. Soc. Beige Gc'oL, vol. vi (Mcmoires), p. 121. 

 1900-1. Volidopsis norvegica, Br^gger, Norges geol. unders0gelse, vol. xxxi, pi. x, fig. 1. 

 1912. Volutopsis norvegica, Dautzeuberg et Fischer, Camp. Scient. Pr. Monaco, vol. xxxvii (Mol- 



lusques), p. 64, pi. i, fig. 5. 



Sljecific Characters. — Shell resembling V. LargiUierti in form, but having a 

 much shorter spire ; ornamented by fine irregular spiral strise ; ajDex bulbous as in 

 the last species; mouth oval, angulate above, longer than the spire; canal wide, 

 very short ; outer lip regularly curved, expanded ; inner lip consisting of a wide 

 and thin glaze closely adherent to the pillar ; pillar gently curved in the middle. 



DimensionsK;r-h- 65 — 70 mm. B. 30 — 35 mm. 



Distribution. — Becerit : northern coasts of Great Britain; Norwegian coast, 

 Lofoten Islands, Finmark, Russian Lapland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, Greenland, 

 Sea of Okhotsk ; Newfoundland, northern and north-eastern shores of Nortli 

 America (G. 0. Sars). 



Fossil : Waltonian Crag : Little Oakley. Newbournian : Sutton, 

 Felixstow. Butleyan : Butley. Icenian : Thorpe near Norwich, Bramerton. 



Scaldisien : Antwerp (Van den Broeck). 



Pleistocene : Christiania region. 



Remarls. — The perfect specimen here figured of the typical V. norvegica was 

 obtained from Oakley. Wood records it, imperfect, from the Newbournian Crag 

 of Felixstow, and from Sutton. 



Genus BERINGIUS, Dall, 1870. 



Beringius Turtoni (Bean). Plate XV, fig. 3. 



1834. Fusus Turtoni, Beau, Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. vii, p. 493, fig. 61. 



1847. Fusus Turtoni, juv., Howse, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [1], vol. xix, \>. 163, pi. x, fig. 8. 

 1850-72. Trophon Turtoni, S. V. Wood, Mon. Crag Moll., pt. ii (Appendix), p. 312, tab. xxxi. fig. 2. 

 1850; 1st Suppl., p. 22, tab. i. fig. 11, 1872. 



