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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The following additional specimens are in the collection of the 

 United States National Museum: 



» One type. 



BARLEEIA SANJUANENSIS, new gpecies. 



Plate 13, fig. 3. 



Shell broadly conic, chestnut brown, except the nuclear whorls, 

 which are pale brown. Nuclear turns two, well rounded, marked by 

 numerous rather strong pits, which are arranged in axial and spiral 

 series. Postnuclear whorls very slightlj'' shouldered at the summit, 

 well rounded, marked by numerous, rather coarse incised spiral lines. 

 Periphery obscurely angulated. Suture well marked. Base well 

 rounded, marked like the spire. The summit of the last turn bends 

 decidedly downward behind the aperture. Aperture subcircular; 

 posterior angle decidedly obtuse; outer lip rather thick; inner lip 



