Journal of conchology . w^m^t M. \^W ,u 4. Views of the North end of Hawes Water, Silverdale,showing cliffs of Chara and Shell marl. i6i THE JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. Vol. II. APRIL, 1905. No. 6. ROSTELLARIA DELICATULA^ upon its distribution and limits of variation. By tames COSMO MELVILL and ROBERT STANDEN. (Read before the Society,. May ii, 1904). Plate II. This particularly attractive Gastropod, always inhabiting abyssaldephs, was described in 1881,^ by the late Mr. Geoffrey Nevill, butnot figured ; his account of it being here transcribed as follows :— Rostellaria delicatula n. s
Journal of conchology . w^m^t M. \^W ,u 4. Views of the North end of Hawes Water, Silverdale,showing cliffs of Chara and Shell marl. i6i THE JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. Vol. II. APRIL, 1905. No. 6. ROSTELLARIA DELICATULA^ upon its distribution and limits of variation. By tames COSMO MELVILL and ROBERT STANDEN. (Read before the Society,. May ii, 1904). Plate II. This particularly attractive Gastropod, always inhabiting abyssaldephs, was described in 1881,^ by the late Mr. Geoffrey Nevill, butnot figured ; his account of it being here transcribed as follows :— Rostellaria delicatula n. sp. Distinguished at once from all the other living species of thegenus by its thin, delicate, and translucent substance, in these respectsshowing a highly important approach to some fossil forms. Colour apale ochraceous brown, lineated on the last whorl with four narrowwhite bands, each of which terminates in one of the four projectingdigitate processes of the outer lip, one only of these bands appearingin the middle of the pr
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