1882.] American Work on Recent Mollusca in 1SS1. 885 



Tertiaries, render the work.of identification and determination of 

 new forms peculiarly difficult, and the writer himself may doubt- 

 less have erred, unintentionally, in taking for new what may, 

 hereafter, be found already described. For all corrections or 

 emendations he will be very grateful. A considerable number 

 still remain to be worked up, of which several will doubtless 

 prove new. There were no new brachiopods in the Agassiz- 

 Sigsbee collection, but in the Agassiz-Bartlett dredgings of the fol- 

 lowing year there seem to be several, of which a fine Terebratula, 

 larger and more elongated than T. vitrea, with a strong, squarely 

 flexed anterior margin, relatively small appressed apex, and a loop 

 shaped much like that of T. sphenoidea Ph., is proposed to be 

 called T. bartlettii, in honor of Commander Bartlett, U.S.N., its 

 discoverer in the deep waters of the Antilles. All the new spe- 

 cies will be illustrated in the final report now in preparation. 



" Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer 

 banks off the southern coast of New England " (No. 2), by E. A. 

 Verrill {Am* jfonr. Sci„ xxn, Oct., 1 881, pp. 292-303). In this 

 paper, a continuation of others heretofore mentioned, Professor 

 Verrill gives the details in regard to a number of stations at 

 which deep-sea dredgings were made by the Fishhaivk in 1880 

 and 1 88 1, a list of fishes obtained and notes on the more inter- 

 esting mollusca. In a note Moroteuthis, n. g., is proposed with 

 Lestotenthis (?) robnsta (Dall) V., from the North Pacific, as type. 

 The following new species are described : Issa ramosa Verrill and 

 Emerton, Pholadomya arata Verrill and Smith, Mytilimeria flexu- 

 osa Verrill and Smith, Diplodonta turgida V. and S., and Dolium 

 tairdii V. and S. The latter was also obtained by the Blake ex- 

 pedition in deep water off the Antilles, and is closely allied to a 

 small deep-water Mediterranean species, D. crosseanum Monte- 

 rosato. 



" Report on the Cephalopods [of the Blake expedition], (etc.)," 

 by A. E. Verrill, (Bull. Mus. Comp. Z06L, VIH, pp. 99" 1 16 > 8 P L » 

 March, 1 88 1.) This paper includes figures and descriptions of 

 eight species of cephalopods supposed to be already known, to- 

 gether with Mastigotcuthis agassimV. g. et sp. n., and Eledone ver- 

 rucosa, sp. n. The figures are admirable, the text is revised in 

 the second part of Professor Verrill's " Cephalopods of the N. E. 

 coast of America," elsewhere noticed, which should be consulted 

 for some changes in the nomenclature here used. 



