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Show 368 DR. GWYN JEFFREYS ON THE MOLLUSCA OF THE [May 20, of brownish-yellow : spire shortish, ending in a blunt and bulbous point: whorls 8, somewhat convex ; the first is inflected, and the last occupies about half the shell: suture nearly straight, well defined : mouth oval, proportionally large, acutangular above and rounded below; its length equals one third of the spire: outer lip flexuous: inner lip reflected on the pillar at its base, but not observable on its upper part. L. 0*15. B. 0*06. 'Porcupine' Exp. 1870 : Atl. St. 9, 17. A single specimen from each station. This is less slender than E. distorta or any of its varieties; the spire is shorter and quite straight, the apex is blunt and bulbous instead of finely pointed, and the mouth is proportionately larger. Distribution. Off the coast of West Africa (' Talisman' Exp.) ; 1192 fms. 8. EULIMA STALIOI, Brusina. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 3.) E. stalioi, Brus., J. de Conch, xvii. (1869), p. 242. 'Porcupine' Exp. 1870: Atl. St. 29, 30. Distribution. Dalmatia (Stalio and Brusina), Algiers (coll. Weinkauff), off Marocco ('Talisman' Exp.)!, Madeira (Watson) I; 20-1192 fms. Intermediate between E. glabella of Searle3 Wood from the Coralline Crag, and E. brevis of Requien from Corsica and the Adriatic The present species may ultimately prove to be a variety of E. brevis. Professor Brusina having obligingly favoured me with a specimen of his E. petitiana, I believe it is a variety of E. stalioi; but I offer this opinion with great respect for his intimate knowledge of the Adriatic Mollusca. 9. EULIMA SOLIDA1, Jeffreys. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 4.) S H E L L nearly cylindrical, slender, thick, transparent, and very glossy: sculpture none perceptible with a hand-iens or ordinary magnifying power ; but under a compound microscope the whole surface of the shell appears to be covered with extremely fine and close-set longitudinal striae or lines ; the periphery is more or less distinctly keeled: colour glassy white: spire elongated, sometimes curved or distorted, and ending in a bulbous nucleus: whorls 8, compact and flattened ; the first is inflected, and the last occupies rather more than two fifths of the shell: suture nearly straight, well defined, but narrow ; it occasionally shows a rather broad line on the lower side by reason of the overlapping of each whorl: mouth oval, proportionally small, acutangular above and somewhat expanded below ; its length is not a third of that of the spire : outer lip flexuous, in some specimens thickened : inner lip glazed and reflected on the pillar. L. 0*2. B. 0*05. ' Porcupine' Exp. 1869 : St. 23 a. 1870 : Atl. 9, 17, 19, 27, 28. Distribution. Bay of Biscay (' Travailleur' Exp. 1880 and 1881), off Marocco, west coast of Africa, and the Azores (' Talisman' Exp.) ; 645-1622 fms. 1 Compact. |