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pointed ; suture very small ; columella much thickened 

 above ; outer lip sharp ; callus folding into the superior 

 part of the umbilicus ; umbilicus large ; whorls four, 

 rather depressed above and rounded below ; mouth ovate, 

 being about three fifths the length of the shell. 



Length .5, Breadth .5, of an inch. 



Observations. Somewhat allied to gibbosa, but differs in 

 the form of the whorls and the length of the spire. The 

 last whorl of the mamma is so large that but a small por 

 tion of the superior whorls is visible. 



The genus Natica is widely spread through the various 

 strata from the Inferior Oolite to the Crag in Great Britain, 

 where nearly twenty species have been observed. Twelve 

 of these have been found in and about the London Clay. 

 M. Deshayes mentions forty-one as being found in the 

 Tertiary period, being well distributed through the Plio 

 cene, Miocene and Eocene periods. In this country, Dr 

 Morton has found casts in the Cretaceous Group of New 

 Jersey, and four have been described by Messrs Say and 

 Conrad from the Tertiary of Maryland. 



