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FUSUS PERLATUS. Tab. 18, fig. 6. 



Short-fusiform, ventricose, with revolving raised lines and nar- 

 row longitudinal costae ; whorls angulated ; beak short, reflected. 

 Locality. Claiborne, Alab. 



FUSUS THORACICUS. Tab. 18, fig. 6. 



Fusiform, with 7 or 8 revolving elevated costse on the body 

 whorl, and longitudinal* prominent- striae ; suture deeply channel- 

 led ; costse two on each whorl of the spire. 



Syn. F. DECUSSATUS, Lea, Con. p. 145, pi. 5, /. 146. 



Locality. Claiborne, Alab. No. 3, first edition, p. 29. 



FUSUS PROTEXTUS. Tab. 18, fig. 7. 



Fusiform ; revolving lines prominent, distinct ; whorls of the 

 spire, except near the summit, with longitudinal undulations; apex 

 obtuse or papillated ; body whorl obscurely biangulated, abruptly 

 contracted inferiorly ; beak straight, much elongated. 



Locality. Claiborne, Alab. 



FUSUS RAPHANOIDES. Tab. 18, fig. 8. 



Fusiform, entire ; whorls slightly contracted above ; suture pro- 

 found ; margined by an obsolete raised line ; body whorl abruptly 

 rounded inferiorly ; aperture suddenly contracted above and be- 

 neath. 



F. ,-aphanoides, nob. Journ. Acad. Xat. Scien. vol. 7, p. 144. 



Locality. Claiborne, Alab. 



Allied to F. lonytevus, Lam. 



FUSUS IRRASUS. Tab. 18, fig. 10, 



Short-fusiform, ventricose, with longitudinal undulations on 

 the body whorl and costa? on the spire ; revolving striae very pro- 

 minent; summit of the whorls flattened, broadly but not profoundly 



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