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figure from one print, and another from a second," which 

 (he might have added) enables them to get their names 

 into the catalogues, whilst not a thought is bestowed on 

 those to whom the originals owe their existence. 



PALUDINA GEORGIANA, Lea. 



Plate 7. — Figs. 1, 2. 



P. testa elongata, ventricosa, anfractibus quaternis vel 

 quinis, convexis: sutura impressa: apertura rotundata, 

 postice angulata. 



SYNONYMS AND REFERENCES. 



P. georgiana, Lea. Transactions of the Am. Phil. Soc, 

 new series, vol. v. p. 116, pi. xix. fig. 85. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Shell elongated, ventricose, thin and smooth; 

 with four or five convex volutions: suture deep, 

 and well marked: aperture nearly round, angu- 

 lated posteriorly. 



Color of the outside green, inside whitish. 



Geographical Distribution. Found as yet 

 only at Hopeton, near Darien, Georgia. — Lea. 



