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side ; from it there runs a strait rib or process continued 

 nearly to the outer margin^ and indicated externally by a 

 depression or groove. 



Animal ample, provided with four very long and rather 

 broad linear rugose (or ciliated ?) tentacula ; mantle pro- 

 duced into a long siphon; foot very large, expanded, trun- 

 cate in front, bearing the operculum near its posterior 

 extremity, but not accompanied by filamentous processes 

 or lobes. A float. (Mus. Brit, and Geol.) 



This very remarkable moUusk was taken in the towing 

 net off Cape Byron, on the east coast of Australia, iu Lat. 

 28° 40' S., fifteen miles from the shore. It was floating 

 and was apparently gregarious. Mr. MacgiUivray states 

 that it is furnished with a float in the manner of lanthina. 

 The largest specimens measure rather less than two hnes 

 in diameter. The shell is of a yellow horn colour (as is 

 also the operctdum), thin and transparent. It bears a 

 striking resemblance to our much more minute Jeffreysia 

 opalina. The four tentacula and the form of the very 

 peculiar operculum also seem to tudicate considerable 

 affinity with the genus Jeffreysia of Alder, and an ex- 

 amination of the remains of the tongue extracted from a 

 dried specimen shewed an arrangement and form of the 

 hngual denticles very closely resembling that exhibited by 

 Jeffreysia. On the other hand, the very distinct and long 

 siphonal tube delineated in Mr. MacgiUivray^ s drawing, 

 taken when the animal was alive, would seem to refer this 

 genus to some fanuly probably near to Cancellaridce. It 

 is certainly entirely distinct in every respect from any 

 known Gasteropod. It is a form of very great interest to 

 the geologist, for in it we see the nearest representation of 

 certain palseozoic (especially Lower Silurian) univalves 

 hitherto referred to Littorina, but which, judging from 

 their associates and the indications afforded by the strata 



