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FULGUR CARICA Conrad. Pl. XXII, fig.127. (p. 355.) 
Proceedings of the Academy of Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, vol. vi, p. 319, 
12853 ; Gill, on the Genus Fulgur and its Allies, in American Journal of Con- 
chology, vol. iii, p. 145, 1867. Murex carica Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 3545, 1788. 
Fulgur eliceans (pars) Montfort, Conch. Syst., vol. ii, p. 503, 1810, fig. (t. Gill). 
Pyrula carica Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert., ed. i, vol. vii, p. 138, 1822 ; Gould, 
Invert. of Mass., ed. i, p. 296. Busycon carica Gould, op. cit., ed. ii, p. 388, fig. 
646; Stimpson, in American Journal of Conchology, vol. i, p. 61, 1865. 
Eastern coast of the United States ; northward to Cape Cod ; south- 
ward to northern Florida, and west Florida. Abundant in Vineyard 
Sound, in 1 to 10 fathoms; also in Long Island Sound, near New 
Haven. Nantucket (Adams); St. Augustine, Florida (H. 8. Williams) ; 
west Florida (i. Jewett.) It occurs iu the Miocene formation of Mary- 
land and Virginia, and in the Post-Pliocene deposits of Virginia, North 
Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida. 
SYCOTYPUS CANALICULATUS Gill. (p. 355.) 
American Journal of Conchology, vol. iii, p. 149, 1867. Murex canaliculatus Linné, 
Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1222. Pyrula canaliculata Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert., 
vol. vii, p. 137, 1822; Gould, Invert. of Mass., ed. i, p. 294, fig. 206. Busycon 
canaliculatum H. and A. Adams, Genera of Recent Mollusca, vol. i, p. 151, 1858 ; 
Gould, Invert. of Mass., ed. ii, p. 380, fig. 645. Fulgur canaliculata Say, 
Journal Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, vol. ii, 1822; Conrad, Proc. Phil. 
Acad., vol. vi, p. 219, 1853. 
Eastern coast of the United States ; northward to Cape Cod and Nan- 
tucket; southward to Georgia and Northern Florida, Western Florida, 
and northern shores of Gulf of Mexico. Abundant in Vineyard Sound, 
Long Isiand Sound, &¢., in 1 to8 fathoms. St. Augusti 2, Florida 
(H. S. Williams), Found fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Virginia, North 
and South Carolina, and Northern Florida ; in the Pliocene of South 
Carolina ; and Miocene of Maryland. 
NASSA VIBEX Say. Plate XXI, fig.114. (p.371). 
Journal Academy Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, vol. ii, p. 231, 1822; Gould, 
Invertebrata of Mass., ed. ii, p. 365, fig. 633. Nassa fretensis Perkins, Pro- 
ceedings Boston Soc. Nat. History, vol. xiii, p. 117, figure, 1869 (variety). 
Eastern coast of the United States; northward to Vineyard Sound ; 
southward to Florida, andthe Gulf of Mexico ; not abundant north of 
Cape Hatteras. In Vineyard Sound and Long Island Sound, found 
sparingly in shallow water among eel-grass. New Bedford (Adams). 
Lloyd’s Harbor, Huntington, and Northport, Long Island (S. Smith) ; 
Egmont Key, Florida (Jewett). It has been found in the Pliocene and 
Post-Pliocene of South Carolina. 
Some of Say’s original specimens were from South Carolina, others 
from Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey. At the latter locality I have also 
collected among eel-grass, in shallow water, the variety described by 
Dr. Perkins as V. fretensis, which is the most common form in all the 
more northern localities. Specimens intermediate between these and the 
ordinary southern forms are, however, of frequent occurrence, and the 
typical form also occurred in Vineyard Sound, with the variety. 
