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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



[Jan., 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF MARINE SHELLS. 



BY E. G. VANATTA. 

 Metula amosi n sp. 



Shell solid: elongate: fusiform: cream-white, with slight indication 

 of a subsutural, a peripheral, and a ^^^de basal bro^Miish spiral band. 

 Spire elevated, conical, vertically costate with spiral strise in the 

 interstices. Suture impressed, irregularly crenulate. Whorls con- 

 vex, 5 remainmg. Body whorl sculptured with 41 vertical costse 

 crossed by 33 raised spiral lines, with a slight tubercle at the point 

 of intersection. The first three spirals below the suture are strongest, 

 the others becoming closer and finer at the periphery and then wider 

 towards the base. There are 12 spirals on the wide, short, slighth' 



Figs. 1, 2.—Me(ulo omosi Van. 



recurved anterior canal, not crossed by the vertical costse. Aperture 

 elongate, about one-half the length of the shell. The outer lip is slightly 

 arcuate, thickened externally, internally polished and a little crenu- 

 late, white at the slightly refiexed edge, internally cream-colored 

 with a fllesh-colored band along the outer margin and in the basal 

 third. The parietal wall and columella moderately concave, covered 

 by an adnate smooth callus, cream-colored tinged with flesh-color 

 at the base. 



