348 PLIOCENE MOLLUSCA. 



and it is also recorded from Walton, supporting, with many other similar facts, the 

 view I have taken that zoologically the Waltonian Crag is more nearly related to 

 the Coralline than it is to the later horizons of the Red Crag. 



It does not seem to have been widely diffused as a fossil, having been only 

 reported from the Pliocene deposits of the continent, so far as I know, by Mr. A. 

 Bell, from Biot near Antibes in 1870, by Seguenza, from Legoli in the Val d'Era 

 in 1875, and by the latter authority from several localities in the Pleistocene of 

 Italy and Sicily. 



The sub-genus Ocinebrina, of which 0. aciculata is taken as the type, is now 

 used for a group of the genus Ocinebra, having numerous varices, neither lamellar 

 nor foliaceous, a comparatively small mouth and a short canal. 



Ocinebra (Ocinebrina) funiculosa (Borson). Plate XXXVI, figs. 1, 2. 



1814. Murex craticulatus, var., Brocchi, Conch, foss. subap., vol. ii, p. 663, pi. xvi, fig. 3. 



1821. Murex funiculosus, Borson, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, vol. xsvi, p. 304, pi. i, fig. 2. 



1841. Murex funiculosus, Michelotti, Mon. Murex, p. 18, no. 24. 



1868. Murex funic ulostis, Foresti, Mem. Accad. Sci. Bologna [2], vol. vii, p. 555. 



1872. Murex funiculosus, Bellardi, Moll. Terr. Terz. Piem., pt. i, p. 110. 



1875. Murex funiculosus, Seguenza, Boll. E. Com. Geol. Ital., vol. vi, p. 340, no. 361. 



1878. Murex funiculosus, de Stefani e Pantanelli, Bull. Soc. Malac. Ital., vol. iv, p. 92. 



1890-1904. Ocinebra funiculosa, Sacco, Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital., vol. ix, p. 243, no. 3362, 1890; Murex 



(Ocinebrina) funiculosus, Moll. Terr. Terz. Piem., pt. xxx, p. 23, pi. vi, figs. 26, 27. 

 1893-98. Murex funiculosus, A. Bell, Proc. Eoy. Irish Acad. [3], vol. ii, p. 627, 1893; Trans. Roy. 



Geol. Soc. Cornwall, vol. xii, p. 138, 1898. 

 1903. Ocinebra (Ocinebrina) funiculosa, Cossmann, Ess. Paleoconch. compar., vol. v, p. 40. 



Specific Characters. — Shell solid, fusiform, turreted ; whorls 6, convex, the last 

 tumid, much the largest, excavated below, depressed above; spire produced, 

 regularly diminishing in size upwards ; apex acute ; suture deep ; ornamented b} r 

 8 oblique or fiexuous costaa, wide, strong and rounded, and by irregular wavy 

 spiral ridges; mouth oval, angulate above and below; outer lip thickened by the 

 labial rib, denticulated within ; canal short, closed ; umbilicus superficial. 



Dimensions. — L. 30 mm. B. 16 mm. 



Distribution. — Not known living. 

 Fossil : St. Erth. 



Lower Pliocene : Piedmont, Tuscany. 



Upper Pliocene : Asti, Bologna. 



Remarks. — The specimen here figured was one of those obtained by S. V. 

 "Wood, Jr., from St. Erth, now in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). It is said 

 to be common in the Upper Pliocene of Asti, but has not been reported hitherto 

 from the Anglo-Belgian basin. 



1 figure with the St. Erth fossil one 1 have received from my friend Prof. Issel 



