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This is one of those forms which it is questionable whether to place 

 it in Mitra or Mitromorpha. 



Family FASCIOLARIDAE 



Genus FASCIOLARIA Lamarck 



FASCIOLAniA, species 



A fragment was obtained off Georgia which included part of the 

 last whorl and canal of what appears to be a small species of Fasciolaria. 

 The suture is mmutely channeled, there are seven obsolete knoblike 

 axial ribs chiefly confined to the periphery, behind which the whorl is 

 slightly constricted. The minor sculpture comprises numerous fine 

 spiral threads in front of the suture minutely reticulated by promi- 

 nent incremental lines giving a minutely punctate appearance. The 

 canal is long, with three threadlike fine plaits on the pillar. The 

 fragment measures about 12.5 mm. in length. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. 

 No. 347843. 



The species is doubtless new, but can not be adequately described 

 from the imperfect specimen. 



Genus FUSINUS Rafinesque 



7FUSINUS SCHRAMMI Crosse 



Fusus schratnmi Crosse, Journ. de Conchyl., vol. 13, p. 31, pi. 1, fig. 9, 1865. 



Off Georgia and Fernandina, five very young specimens which may 

 be immature individuals of the species described by Crosse from 

 Guadelupe. 



FUSINUS BULLATU3. new species 



Shell small (possibly immature) , pale gray, of about three whorls, 

 exclusive of the large, swollen, smooth, white nucleus of nearly two 

 whorls; spiral sculpture of a prominent undulated keel at the periph- 

 ery with a smaller simple cord in front of it, the interval and the 

 rest of the whorl behind the keel very finely closely threaded ; on the 

 base there are about eight stronger threads with wider interspaces, 

 sometimes with an intercalary fine tlu-eadlet; there are no developed 

 ribs, except as indicated by the dozen prominent nodes on the pe- 

 ripheral keel, yet in older specimens they may develop; the suture is 

 closely appressed; the aperture is subovate, not lirate within and 

 with the outer lip not thickened; the pillar is smooth, gyrate, and 

 the axis pervious; the canal is slender, moderately long and slightly 

 curved. Length, 10; length of last whorl, 5; diameter, 4 mm. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Cat., No. 107998. 



Off Fernandina, one specimen. 



FUSINUS VITREUS, new species 



Shell small, white, thin, with an inflated smooth, white nucleus of 

 two whorls and three and a half subsequent whorls; suture distinct, 



