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Vicarya callosa Jenk. Sammlungen des Geologischen Reichsmuseums in 
Leiden, Vol. V, 1896, pp. 53, 69. 
Also noted in Japan and India, but we are unable to give citations of the 
literature. 
Fig. 1, Plate III, is a photograph (slightly enlarged) of a rather imperfect 
specimen, but which still shows enough of the sculpturing to enable us easily to 
identify it as belonging to this species. As the shaly sandstone from which it 
was taken was exceedingly hard, the specimen suffered unavoidable mutilation. 
This Batangas fossil is somewhat larger than those figured by Martin from 
Minanga and Dicamui brook in Luzon, but is about of the size of a specimen 
which the writer examined in the museum of the Imperial University at Tokyo, 
Japan. It is also of nearly the same dimensions as that deseribed by Martin 
from Java. 
The characteristic features of all these specimens are the flattened whorls, the 
row of strong spines which are found next to the sutures, the sigmoidal growth 
lines which have their deepest incurvation between the rows of spines. 
The Batangas specimen possesses at least 10 whorls, its length is 88 milli- 
meters, width 3.5 millimeters, and the angle of spire is 27°. 
Locality: Loboo River, Batangas Province. 
Age: Upper Miocene. 
STROMBUS Linn. 
Strombus javanus Martin, var. nov. semperi. PI. III, fig. 3. 
Strombus javanus Martin. ‘Tertiiirschicht. auf Java. Pl. LY, fig. 2, p. 47. 
As this is a cast a very close comparison with Martin’s figure can not be 
made, and it is probable that, were the outer shell present, this would be found 
to be not even a variety. At present the only difference is in the shape of the 
whorls, those of the Batangas specimen being more rounded. The fluting on the 
margin of the expanded lip can be seen very plainly. Height, 30 millimeters; 
width of bottom whorl, including expansion of lip, 19 millimeters. 
Locality: Loboo River, Batangas Province, in shaly sandstone just above igneous 
basement. 
Age: Upper Miocene, 
Fig. 13 is a cast undetermined, but which is found in great numbers 
in the same beds with Vicarya callosa. 
TAPES Megerle. 
Tapes (°) lobooénsis sp. nov. PI. III, fig. 2. 
This cast has the Tapes outline and area of Tapes. Length, 30 millimeters; 
height, 18 millimeters. ij 
So far as we know, this is the first instance of the finding of this genus in the 
Philippines, and therefore we assign to it the specific name given above, although 
we recognize its poor claims to the rank of a type. 
Locality: Shaly sandstone beds of Loboo River, Batangas Province. 
Age: Upper Miocene. 
Tapes sp. indet. PI. I//, fig. 7. 
Another poor cast of a fairly common form in same bed with 7. lobooénsis. 
PTEROPSIS Cour. 
Pteropsis (7?) bullata sp. nov. Pl. 3, fig. 5. 
This is a fairly perfect cast of a very globular species of what we take to be 
Pteropsis. The heavy growth lines appear to be very characteristic and in this 
species each ridge is made up of two and sometimes three minor ridges. The 
