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Show 46 DR. GWYN JEFFREYS ON THE MOLLUSCA OF THE [J Family X X V . CAPULID^E. This would seem to be the natural position of the family. Mr. Jabez Hogg, in an excellent and beautifully illustrated paper oa the lingual membrane of Mollusca (Trans. Roy. Micr. Soc. xvi. n. s.), says as to Cupulas hungaricus, " Dentition is seen to be almost identical with Felutinar CAPULUS HUNGARICUS, Linne. Patella ungarica, L. S. N. p. 1259. C. hungaricus, B. C. iii. p. 269, pi. vi. f. 5 ; v. p. 201, pi. lix. f. 6, 6 a. ' Lightning' Exp., St. 2, 4. «Porcupine' Exp. 1869: St. 2,45 a, 45 6, 70. 1870: Atl. 9, 10, 13, 16, 27, 28, 28a, 36 ; Med. Rasel Amoush, Adventure Bank. Distribution. From arctic Norway to the Mediterranean, iEgean, and Adriatic, N ew Eigland (Ferrill) ; 0-458 fms. Fossil. All the Tertiary fossiliferous beds in Europe ; 0-1360 fr. There are many obsolete and useless synonyms, including so-called species of the fossil so-called genus Brocchia. See my ' Notes on Brocchi's Collection of Subapennine Shells' in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for February 1884. The young has been called Capulus or Peleopsis militaris. This common shell attains to a considerable size. I have one from Algiers exceeding two inches in length ; and I noticed a still larger specimen in Dr. Tiberi's collection from the Bay of Naples. Owing to its quasi-parasitic habit it is very liable to distortion in various ways, being sometimes compressed laterally, expanded, obliquely formed, or angulated, as in Crag specimens of Searles Wood and Mr. Alfred Bell. Family XXVI. CANCELLARIID^E. 1. TORELLIA VESTITA, Jeffreys. T. vestita, B. C. iv. p. 244, pi. iv. f. 1 ; v. pi. lxxix. f. 5. 'Lightning' Exp. St. 4. ' Porcupine' Exp. 1869 : St. 23, 30, 58. Distribution. Norway, from Lofoden I. southwards (Loven and others), Shetland (Barlee), New England and G. Maine (Ferrill) ; 4^-317 fms. Herr Friele informs me that the animal is of a pale flesh-colour, the head not very prominent and notched in front; tentacles rather long and pointed ; eyes on small bulbs near the outer base of the tentacles; the foot longish and narrow, broader, truncated, and horizontally cloven in front. Professor G. O. Sars has lately dredged on the west coast of Norway a very large and living specimen, more than an inch long. The operculum is small, acutely triangular like that of Trophon and Fusus, and is ridged transversely. The genus Choristes of the late Dr. Philip Carpenter, from the |
