160 PLIOCENE MOLLUSCA. 



Var. angulata, S. V. Wood. Plate XVI, fig. 7. 



1848. Trophon antiqicum, var. contrarium angulatum, S. V. Wood, Men. Crag Moll., pt. i, tab. v, 

 fig. 1 h. 



Dishibutloji. — Not known living. 



Fossil : Red Crag, jxissim. 



BemarJcs. — Wood described a rolled specimen of this variety, but liis figure 

 does not show the spiral ornamentation. I have many perfect examples equally 

 worn in my collection from Oakley, where it is not uncommon, but there is one in 

 the Castle Museum at Norwich (here represented) in which the original sculpture 

 is clearly preserved. The imperfect shell from Oakley, var. carinata (PI. XVI, 

 fig. 5), figured wath it, agrees with Wood's var. slnistrorsum ; in this form the 

 upper part of the last whorl is rounded and not shouldered. 



Var. informis, nov. Plate XVI, fig. 6. 



Bistrihiit'um.. — Not known living. 



Fossil : Red Crag, all zones. 



BemarJcs. — This short and abnormal variety of iV^. contrarla approaches in form 

 the Recent and arctic species, N. deformis, Reeve^ (Conch. Icon., vol. iv [Fusils^, 

 pi. xii, fig. 4^5), of which specimens are to be found in the British Museum (Natural 

 History). It is not identical with it, but possibly may be related.^ 



I have not noticed either this variety or the last in the Belgian Crag. 



Neptunea despecta (Linne). Plate XVII, fig. 1. 



17.58. Murex despectus, Liune, Syst. Nat., ed. x, p. 754, no. 48(3. 



1863. Fusus antiqims, var., Jeffreys, Rep. Brit. Assoc. (Newcastle-upou-Tyue), Sections, p. 77. 

 1867. Fusus despectus, Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., vol. iv, p. 328. 



1878. Neptunea despecta, G-. 0. Sars, Moll. Reg. Arct. Norv., p. 267, pi. xiv, fig. 4 a. 

 1881. Neptunea despecta, Tryon and Pilsbry, Man. Conch., vol. iii, p. 116, pi. xlvii, fig. 263. 

 1884. Fusus despecttis, Jeffreys, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xl, p. 319. 



1887. Neptunea despecta, Kobelt, Icon, schalentrag. europ. Meeresconch., vol. i, p. 63, pi. xi, fig. 2. 

 1900-01. Neptunea despecta, Br0gger, Norges geol. unders^gelse, vol. xxxi, p. 264, fig. 28. 

 1912. Neptunea antiqua, subsp. despecta, Dautzenberg et Fischer, Camp. Scient. Pr. Monaco, vol. 

 xxxvii (Mollusques), p. 79, pi. iii, fig. 1. 



Specific Gharacters. — Shell strong, solid, ovato-fusiform, whorls about 7, 

 convex, but not so much so as in JSf. antiqua, the last ventricose, much the largest, 



^ N. (Pyrulofusus) deformis has been found in Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, and in the Behriug Sea 

 (Dautzenberg and Fischer). 



^ Other varieties of N. confraria a,ve figured in pi. v of Wood's Monograph. 



