NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 244 September 1978 Page 9 
JAWS TOO! He had cooked shark for us to sam i i 
; ple, and among his exhi- 
bits were toothful shark jaws and his ow h 
ly tough hide of the tiger shark, f Ree eee ater. Oe rere 
The banquet Thursday evening was delicious, the atmosphere jovial 
There were door prizes galore. Dr. Clench was the Shearer ea showed 
pictures and films of early AMU years, especially 1941 in Maine with 
the lad R. T. Abbott and the young scientists Clench, Rehder, van der 
Schalie and others. At the end of the evening the gavel was passed 
from retiring president Carol B. Stein to the new president, William 
E. Old. Our congratulations to him in his new post; let us all give 
him full support. He will preside over next year's meeting which 
will be a joint one with the Western Society of Malacologists. It 
will be hosted by Texas Shell Clubs and held at Corpus Christi. 
For Friday our hosts had arranged a number of field trips for us to 
choose from according to our interest: land, freshwater, marine, 
fossil, or a trip to the Marine Resources Center. This was a quiet 
way of reminding us that North Carolina has it all -- a unique, rich 
and varied fauna. We'd like to visit it again. 
Dorothy Raeihle 

SCALPTIA MERCADOI Old 1968 
Robert Janowsky 
I have recently received from one of my Philippine suppliers a spec- 
imen of a remarkable cancellarid which has proven to be Scalptia 
mercadoi Old 1968. The illustrated specimen is 32mm in coer and 
was collected in mesh nets in deep 
water off Punta Engano, Cebu, in the 
Philippines. This attractive species 
is certainly one of the most striking 
of all the cancellarids, with its broad 
ribs, its contrasting light and dark 
brown colors and its intricate sculp- 
GUL. 
Very few specimens of this shell have 
been seen since Mr. Old described it 
nearly ten years ago. The type and 
one of the paratypes were known to 
have come from 175 and 120 fathoms 
depths, and I believe that the illus- 
trated specimen also came from a depth 
greater than 100 fathoms -- a factor 
which must certainly account in part 
for its rarity. The original descrip- 
‘ F tion appears in "The Veliger," Vol. 10, 
Scalptia mercadoi Old uA. i 1968, pp. 286-289 and 
Collection of R. Prince, is recommended to those interested in 
Portland, Oregon. a thorough description and discussion 
Photograph by R. Janowsky of this species. 

