. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Fur. 2. 16 Messrs. J. Wood-Mason and A. Alcock on canal, by the umbilicus open to the very apex, and by a supra-sutural band of white glaze left throughout the spire by a por- tion of the callus remaining uncovered during growth. The longitudinal ribs of the shell are obtundate, alter- nately broad and narrow, with finely wrinkled edges, the crenulations being produced at regular intervals to form by their approximation very narrow, decussating, transverse lines. Colour of she
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Fur. 2. 16 Messrs. J. Wood-Mason and A. Alcock on canal, by the umbilicus open to the very apex, and by a supra-sutural band of white glaze left throughout the spire by a por- tion of the callus remaining uncovered during growth. The longitudinal ribs of the shell are obtundate, alter- nately broad and narrow, with finely wrinkled edges, the crenulations being produced at regular intervals to form by their approximation very narrow, decussating, transverse lines. Colour of shell warm cinnamon, with transverse streaks of darker brown corresponding to lines of growth. Colour of the animal delicate pink, the edges of the mantle shading into a lemon-yellow. Three large speci- mens from a sandy bottom in 98 to 102 fathoms off the Ganjam Family Pleurotomidae. 2. A single small Pleurotomid was taken from the mud at Station 97, 1310 fathoms. Family Strombidae. 3. Rostellaria deh'catula, Nevill. (Fig. 3.) Rostcllaria delicntula, Nevill, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. 1. (1881), pt, ii. p. 262. This species has now become recognized as a quite charac- teristic inhabitant of the infra-littoral of the Bay of Bengal at and near the 100-fathom contour, as far as this has yet been explored by the ' Investigator,' from Arrakan to the (iodavari. The living animal is a bright pink, and it has imparted to the spirit in which it was preserved a beautiful magenta colour, which has stained permanently the packing- material, the legs and the branchiae of some Pensei, and the soft tissues of a Chaetopod and of some other mollusks, con- tained in the tin in which it was first placed. The eyes are very large. The animal is possessed of great vitality, and, though coming from a considerable depth, lives happily for days in a bucket of sea-water, and appears to be unaffected by. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digital
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