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ELLIPSOLITHES. 
Gen. Cuar. Shell univalve, elliptical, invelute, 
chambered, all the volutions apparent. Aper- 
ture lunulate on account of receiving in its 
inner part the return of the volution. 
ELLIPSOLITHES funatus. 
TAB. XXXII. 
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Spec. Cuar. Shell with numerous transverse sim- 
ple rounded risings, relieved by rather wider 
grooves, at intervals a kind of constriction 
distinguished by a small protuberance on the 
inner part of the rising immediately beyond it. 
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Suri smooth; whorles three er four, half concealed ; 
long diameter, three inches; short diameter two and a 
quarter; thickness, one and an half. 
The general appearance of this cerious production would 
bespeak it a multilocular shell, and De Montfort describes 
it as such; our specimen however does not expose such a 
character so distinctly as might be desired, yet I believe 
sufficiently in one part. Although in this respect hardly 
satisfactory, I could not avoid treating my friends with a 
knowledge of this curious rarity belonging to the Black- 
rock range, S. E. of Cork, as discovered by my friend 
Samuel Wright, Esq. in 1812. It is a fairly elliptical 
species, and although the specimen is somewhat dis- 
torted, the curve is sufficiently apparent to decide upon; 
besides which there is at intervals a sort of constriction, 
