792 CRETACEOUS PALEONTOLOGY. 



the spiral striae in the upper volutions produces a very decided 

 and beautifully cancellated structure." (Whitfield.) 



Remarks. -This species has not been met with, in the recent 

 collections of the Survey, and in fact is known only from the 

 single type specimen. 



Formation and locality. Navesink marl, Freehold (Whit- 

 field). 



Geographic distribution, New Jersey. 



Super-family TOXOGLOSSA. 



Family CANCELLARIIDAE. 



Genus CANCEIVLARIA Lamark. 



Cancellaria subalta Conrad. 



Plate XCVIIL, Fig. i. 



1869. Cancellaria subalta Con., Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 5, p. 100, 



pi. 9, fig. 22. 

 1892. Cancellaria (merica} subalta Whitf., Pal. N. J., vol. 2 



(Monog. U. S. G. S., vol. 18), p. 95, pi. 12, figs. 



24-25. 

 1905. Cancellaria subalta Johns., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 



(1905), p. 26. 



Description. "Shell small, slender or elongate- fusiform, with 

 an elevated spire composed of moderately convex volutions, 

 which may have been, as the author says, six in number ; sutures 

 quite distinct; body volution proportionally large, forming con- 

 siderably more than half the length of the shell ; aperture rather 

 large, obliquely elliptical with the outer side more rounded than 

 the inner; acute above and apparently so below; outer lip 

 strongly crenulate within; inner lip coated with a deposit, but 

 not sufficiently heavy to conceal the surface markings of the 

 shell beneath it, which show through and present somewhat the 

 appearance of plaits; axis apparently slightly perforated; sur- 

 face marked by strong- and deep vertical and spiral grooves with 



