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tioned species P. comma certainly presents a general resemblance, but is separable from 
it by the short curved costelle, which ornament the shoulders, instead of the quadrate 
tubercles which distinguish P. denticula. The English species most closely resembling 
P. comma is P. obscurata, a species which may be reasonably expected to occur in 
the nearly synchronous deposit at Stubbington, and in which the narrow, oblong, 
compressed tubercles approach very nearly in character to the short costelle of 
P. comma; the principal distinction appears to be in the condition of the middle of 
the volutions, which in P. odscurata are transversely lined instead of being smooth as 
in P. comma; but, although this difference does not appear to be of much value, I have 
not ventured, in the absence of any specimen of P. comma for comparison, to regard 
the two species as identical. 
Locality.—Stubbington. 
No. 207. Pievroroma Prestwicuy. Ff. 2. Edwards. Tab. XXX, fig. 3, a—d. 
P. testé elongata, sub-fusiformi, longitudinaliter costatd ; spiraliter lineatd: spird 
elevaté acuminatd: anfractibus rotundato-convewis ; costellis numerosis, curvis; lineis 
spiralibus confertis, trregularibus, supra partes medias anfractuum obsoletis; ceteris 
perspicuis : apertura oblongo-ovali ; labro arcuato, acuto ; sinu ad himerum collocato, lato, 
profundo, sub-trigono. 
Var.: testa anfractibus convexiusculis, ad humeros angulatis, antice sub-conicis. 
Shell lengthened, fusiform, longitudinally ribbed, spirally lined: the spire pointed, 
elevated, rather exceeding the aperture in length: the whorls, eight or nine, roundedly 
convex, a little thickened round the suture, and very generally bordered by two or 
three raised lines; the last whorl is much contracted in front and produced into a 
long, open, narrow canal. The longitudinal ribs are numerous, varying in number in 
different specimens, rounded, curved, scarcely extending in front to the middle of the 
whorls, but continued backwards to the very suture; the concentric lines close set 
and irregular, almost obsolete over the middle of the whorls, but elsewhere prominent 
and well defined; for the most part they are thick and rounded, but frequently 
smaller thread-like lines intervene. The aperture is of an oblong-oval shape; the 
outer lip much arched, projecting at the middle, thin and sharp on the edge, 
smooth within; and the sinus, which is placed on the shoulder, very wide, rather 
deep, and triangular in form. 
A variety occurs plentifully in which the whorls are less convex on the sides, 
giving a subconical character to the spire, and are bluntly angulated at the shoulder ; 
and the front part of the last whorl is not so much contracted as in the type. 
Size.—Axis, | inch and 4-12ths; diameter, rather more than 5-12ths of an inch. 
Localities —Clarendon, where both forms are abundant, and Alum Bay (Stratum 
No. 4, Prestwich). 
