NEPTUNEA DESPECTA. 1G5 



though but half the size of that figured by Sowerby are evidently the same. They 

 belong to the short-spired despecfa group although they are not carinated, differing 

 sufficiently from those before described to entitle them, in my opinion, as in 

 Sowerby's, to be regarded as distinct. The various specimens in my collection, 

 although from different horizons, maintain the same general character. As the 

 name striata is used for another shell, I have dedicated this form to the memory 

 of the late Mrs. Cobbold, from whom it was originally received. The section at 

 Holywell, near Ipswich, from which the present and some other fossils figured by 

 iSowerby came, has not been worked for many years. There are examples of this 

 variety in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) and in the Jermyn Street Museum. 



Var. intermedia, nov. Plate XVII, fig. 2. 



1898. Fnsus {Neptunea) antiqaus, F. W. Harmer, Proc. Iiiteru. Congress Zool. (Cdiubridge), p. ■222, 

 pi. iii, fig. 7. 



Dimeiisiuns. — L. 70 mm. B. 45 mm. 



Distribution. — Waltonian Crag : Little Oakley ; probably elsewhere in the 

 Eed Crag. 



Bemarhs. — The shell here figured, one of the earliest forms of the dextral 

 group to appear in the Crag basin, corresponds with the Oakley type of N. 

 despecta in everything but in its spiral sculpture. Although resembling i\^. <intiqua 

 in that respect, traces of the characteristic and prominent ridges of N. despeda 

 may be observed on the upper whorls; it can hardly be separated from the latter 

 species, and must be regarded, I think, as a variety of it. 



Var. pumilio, nov. Plate XVIII, figs. 1, 2. 



1848. Purpura lapillus, var. angulata, S. V. Wood, Mon. Crag Moll., pt. i, tab. iv, fig. 6 e. 



Varietal Cdiaracters. — Shell small, short, solid, fusiform ; whorls G, the last five- 

 sixths the total length, excavated below ; ornamented by numerous fine, wavy 

 spiral lines, and on the upper whorls by a very prominent raised and rounded keel 

 just above the suture; the keel is still more strongly marked on the body-whorl, 

 the upper part of which forms a comparatively wide and sloping shelf extending 

 to- the suture, the lower part being covered with raised spiral lines of unequal size ; 

 spire very short, conical, rapidly diminishing in size, ending in a blunt point ; 

 suture slight ; mouth ovate, strongly angulate above ; outer lip thin, sharply 

 angulated by the keel; inner lip forming a thin and closely adherent glaze; pillar 

 sinuous; canal short and wide, turning to the left. 



Dimensions. — L. 32 mm. B. 22 mui. 



