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pressure, and the side assumes an aspect like Arniotites, not possessed 

 by the earlier stages, which arc not distorted. As noted by Mojsiso- 

 vics, Arniotites and Celtites are undoubtedly very closely allied in some 

 of their species, but the typical forms seem to be gcnerically separable 



)le. 



Badiotites Caelottensis. (N. Sp.) 

 Plate 19, fig. 5. 



Shell small, strongly compressed at the side, periphery sharp but 

 not distinctly keeled; whorls increasing rapidly in breadth in the 

 dorso-ventral direction. Surfiice of the outer volution marked by 

 crowded, regularly disposed and nearly equidistant, minute and falcate 

 rib-like folds, which curve concavely forwurdh on each of the sides 

 and which are apparently not interrupted on the peripherj^. Sutural 

 line unknown. 



South side of Houston Stewart Channel, Queen Charlotte Islands 

 nearly opposite Eose Harbour, G-. M. Dawson, 1878 : one small and 

 very much distorted specimen, the maximum diameter of which is 

 twelve millimetres or about half an inch. 



The type and only specimen collected is so much distorted by 

 obliquely lateral pressure that its outer volution looks much more 

 strongly embracing than it proliably was in its normal condition, and 

 its umbilicus is made to assume an abnormall}^ narrow appearance. 



For the elucidation of the generic relations of this shell the wriior is 

 indebted to Professor Hyatt, who wi-itcs as follows in regard to it: 

 "It is much larger than the only other known species of this genus, 

 the Badiotites Eryx of Mqjsisovics (Ceph. dor Mediterr. Triaspr, p. 'Jl). 

 After considerable trouble and some rather haz,ardoas work, I suc- 

 ceeded iu splitting off apart of the otherwise indelcrminable shell, 

 cleaned a part of the whorl, and traced the well-known pilne of Badio- 

 tites running continuously across the abdomen of the much compressed 

 and acute whorl. The extreme flatness, of course, maybe in a measure 

 accounted for by pressure, but the agreement in aspect of the whorls 

 and the continuity of the pite leave hai-dly any room for doubting that 

 it is a form of Badiotites. It is much larger than B. Eryx, and probably 

 new." 



