. 286 A. E. Verrill—Recent additions to the 
GASTRANELLA V., gen. nov. 
anterior one smaller. No distinct lateral teeth. Animal with 
long, slender, separate siphonal tubes, with a simple circle of 
papillz at the ends; mantle well open anteriorly ; foot ligulate. 
The curious little shell for which this genus is constituted appar- 
ently resembles Gastrana more than any other described genus 
Gastranella tumida V., sp. nov. Plate VI, figures 3, 34. 
Shell small, variable in form, swollen above, more or less elon- 
+ 
iridescent. Color white, with the umboes purple. Long I 
Turtonia minuta Gould, 2d ed., p. 85, fig. 395 (not of European authors). 
The American specimens of this shell differ so widely 10 
