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J F. CANALTCULATUS, Liiiu. I'l. 57, ligs. 394, 895 ; PI. 58, fig. 401. 

 Fulvous iisli-color, covered, Avlieii fresh, by ;i liglil yellowish 

 brown pilose epidermis. Length, 5-7 inches. 



Cape Cod, M(i)iS. to Floridn. Fossil, miocenc to postplioccne. 



The tubercles become obsolete on the body-whorl of the adult 

 shell. Animal with white mantle, edged with a narrow, bright 

 yellow granulous cord ; proboscis long, black-tipped, reddish 

 near the body. A string of the ovicapsules from Atlantic City, 

 N. J., contains ninety-eight embryos in each capsule, making 

 about live thousand for the entire string. 



F. Pyhum, Dillw. ri. 58, ligs. 402, 403. 

 // Whitish, consi)icuously h^ngitudiually tlauied with light chest- 

 nut or orange ; aperture whitish or yellowish within. 



Length, 4-5 inches. 



Florida. 



Whorls carinated, but scarcely tuberculated at the angle of the 

 shoulder. Mr. Conrad maintained that his F. plmjosus is a dis- 

 tinct species, but I am not able to separate it. 



Subgeuus Taphon, H. and A. Adams. 



Dr. Gill eliminates this from Fuhjiir. with which he says it 

 evidently has no atlinity. 1 have not seen the shell, but judging 

 from description and figure I would suppose it to be either 

 related to Ficuf^ or to Fulyur^ and probably much closer to 

 Ftcuti. 



F. STRiATUS, Gray. PI. 58, lig. 404. 



Whitish, streaked longitudinally with orange-brown ; interior 



of aperture white. Length, 1-6 inches. 



Vhiiui. 



Genus STSEPTOSIPHON, Gill. 



S. PORPiiYROSTOMA, Adauis and Peeve. PL 58, figs. 405, 406. 



Whitish, with a yellow-brown e})idermis, marked obsoletely 



with spiral Inown lines ; aperture white or light purple. 



Length, 38 mill. 



Eastern Seas, Senegal. 



S. recin'va, A. Adams (tig. 406) is evidently the same species. 



