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NORTH-CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



FA8CIOLARIA DISTANS. LAM. (Fig. 113.) 



FIG. 113. 



PIG. 114. 



This shell at first sight appears smooth, 

 but a careful inspection shows that it is 

 finely striated longitudinally ; its spire is 

 composed of six or seven convex or pro- 

 minent whirls, and its pillar has but one 

 plait. 



It-is a common shell upon the- coast, 

 and in the post pleiocene at Beaufort. 

 but not uncommon in the miocene of 

 Cape Fear. 



FASCIOLARIA ELEGANS. N. S. (Fig. 



Shell elongated, acute; whirls eight 

 rounded, ornamented with wide, and 

 finely striated ribs ; striae transverse to 

 the ribs, or longitudinal ; ribs of the body 

 whirl, about fifteen, the middle of the 

 body-whirl upon the outer lip, the four 

 widest ribs alternate with three narrow 

 ones ; plaits three, concealed within the 

 pillar lip; spire longer than the aper- 

 ture. 



This shell is rare in the miocene of 

 North-Carolina. It would pass for fusus 

 if the pillar lip was not examined just 

 within the aperture, the plaits reaching 

 only to its edge, but they are strong and 

 well developed through its entire length. 



It is possible this shell may have been 

 previously described, but its broad, flat 

 and very prominent ribs are so peculiar, 

 that if observed and described, it could 

 scarcely escape detection. Figure half 

 the natural size. 



