43 LiGNiTic Stage 43 



Lignitic /c'rA'/Z/zV^.— Alabama : Woods bluff, and according to 

 Aldrich, also at Lower Peach Tree. 



Type. — Woods bluff, Aldrich colledlion. 



In the Lea Memorial colledlion there is a Fusus with finer 

 costation and less angulation at the middle of each whorl. It is 

 probabl}^ a new species, though the striation suggests a relation- 

 ship with this species. It is from Bell's. 



Fusus rugatus, . PI. 5. fig. 6. 



Syn. F. rugahis. Aid., Bull, i, Geol. Surv. Ala., p. 22, pi. 5, fig. 9. 



F. nigatns, Har., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1S96, p. 478, pi. 22, 

 fig. 8. 



Aldrich' s original description. — "Shell fusiform, .spire high, 

 suture linear ; whorls carinated, concave and smooth above, 

 rounded below, the periphery of each whorl with numerous 

 tubercles, some of them reaching to a second revolving raised 

 line below ; the whorl next above the body whorl showing two 

 tuberculated lines below the carina ; body whorl showing four 

 rows of spinous lines, contradled rather abruptly below them ; 

 canal covered with distant spiral rows of sharp spines ; aperture 

 small, angulated posteriorly, terminating in a long, narrow 

 canal. 



"/,(?(•«'///)'.— Gregg's landing, Alabama. 



"The type specimen is broken, but other specimens likewise 

 broken show a long, narrow canal, spirally striated to the end." 



Type. — Aldrich's collecftion. 



Specimeji figured . — Gregg's landing ; Lea Memorial colle(5lion. 



Fusus (Buccinofusus) harrisi, PI- 5- fig- 7- 



Syn. h'lisus harrisi Aid., Bull. Am. Pal., vol. i, p. 64, pi. 5, figs. 2, 8. 



Biiccino/usus han-isi Cossm., 'R.&wxe Bibliographique, 1895, p. 35. 

 (From Journal de Conchyliologie, 1895.) 



Aldrich' s original description. — {Op. cit.) — In most specimens 

 there is a broad, but well defined retral curve in the lines of 

 growth as well as in the ribs on the humeral .slope. In tliis 

 respedl the ribs remind one slightly of Buccinum nndnlat/mi, 



