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1898. Vaginulina legumemBa.gg, Bull. U. S. G. S., No. 88, p. 



53, pi. 4, fig- 4- 

 1898. Vaginulina legumen Bagg, Bull. Am. Pal., vol. 2, No. 10, 



p. 26(320). 



1901. Vagimtlina legumen Bagg, Md. Geol. Surv. Eocene, p. 



240, pi. 63, fig. i. 



Description.. "Test straight or nearly so, smooth, compressed 

 laterally, pod-like; consisting of only six or seven chambers; 

 septa nonlimbate, oblique, parallel, not very distinct externally; 

 ultimate chamber slightly prolonged upon one side and carrying 

 the small radiate aperture. 



"Length, 1.3 mm.; breadth, 0.47 mm." (Bagg.) 



Remarks. "The above species has been lately described from 

 the Alabama chalk by Dr. Woodward. It is a beautiful little 

 shell, of snow-white color, and is rather rare." (Bagg.) 



Formation and locality. Marshalltown clay-marl, Marshall- 

 town (Bagg) ; Vincentown limesand, New Egypt, Mullica Hill 

 (Bagg). 



Geographic distribution, New Jersey, Alabama; Eocene of 

 Maryland. 



Vaginulina strigillata (Reuss). 



Plate II., Fig. 34. 



1845. Citharina strigillata Reuss, Verstein. bohm. Kreide, pt. 2, 



p. 1 06, pi. xxiv, fig. 29. 

 1860. Vaginulina strigillata and var. Jones and Parker, Quart. 



Jour. Geol. Soc., vol. xvi, p. 453, pi. xx, figs. 29-35. 

 1898. Vaginulina strigillata Bagg, Bull. U. S. G. S., No. 88, 



p. 53, pi. 4, fig. 3. 



Description. "Test, complanate, leaf-like, very large, roughly 

 triangular; surface smooth, marked by slightly elevated septal 

 lines; chambers numerous, oiten as many as 25, narrow, 

 parallel, slightly oblique, becoming constricted toward the curved 

 margin and passing rapidly downward toward the proximal end, 

 where the septal lines finally appear only as fine ridges. As a 



