68 BULLETIN 90, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Additional material of this beautiful species has been obtained 

 since the original publication, fully confirming the diagnosis of its 

 characters. 



Genus MELONGENA Schumacher. 



Oaleodes Bolten, Mns. Bolt., p. 53. 1798. Type, Murcx melongena 

 (Linnaeus), Gmelin. Not Galeodes Olivier, 1791. Araclmida. 



Melongena Schumacher, Essai, p. 212, 1817. Type, Murex melongena 

 Linnaeus. 



Pyrula (sp. ) Lamarck, ct auct. aliis. 



MELONGENA SCULPTURATA Dall. 



Plate 11, fig. 1. 



Melongena sculpUirata Dall, Trans. Wagner Inst., vol. 3, pt. 1, 118, pi. 8, 

 fig. 3 (var.), 1S90. 



Oligocene of the Tampa silex beds at Ballast Point, of the overly- 

 ing " Cerithium rock " of Heilprin at the same locality and in other 

 adjacent localities, and in the marl of the Chipola River, near the 

 county bridge, formerly Bailey's Ferry. Dall, Burns, and others. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 114543. 



The typical form is most common in the " Cerithium rock," the 

 following A^ariety more so in the silex beds underlying the former. 



MELONGENA SCULPTURATA var. TURRICULA Dall. 

 Plate 8, fig. 7. 



Melongena sculjHurata var. turricula Dall, Trans. Wagner Inst., vol. 3, 

 pt. 1, p. 119, pi. 8, fig. 3, 1890. 



Tampa silex beds at Ballast Point, Tampa Bay, Florida; Burns 

 and Dall. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 112045. 



The specimen noted in the Transactions as from the Miocene of 

 South Carolina, is of somew^hat dubious extraction and may be the , 

 immature stage of another species. 



Genus SOLENOSTEIRA Dall. 



Solenosteira Dall, Trans. Wagner Inst., vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 122, 1890. Type, 

 Pyrula anomala Reeve, Conch. Icon. Pyrula, pi. 8, fig. 12, 1847. 



SOLENOSTEIRA INORNATA Dall. 



Solenosteira inornata Dall, Trans. Wagner lust., vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 123, 1890; 

 pt. 2, p. 2.34, pi. 20, fig. 17, 1892. 



Oligocene limestone at Ballast Point, Tampa Bixy, Florida, from 

 the "Cerithium rock" of Heilprin, immediately over the silex hori- 

 zon, and from the bed of the Hillsboro Kiver above Tampa. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. No. 112050. 



The figure above cited was made from gutta percha casts taken 

 from the molds of the species in the lime rock. 



