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Metula sylvaerupis, n. sp., PI. 7, fig. 7. 



Specific charan:erization. — Size and general form as shown b}- 

 the figure ; embryonic three whorls smooth ; the fourth cancel- 

 lated, the fifth, sixth and seventh cancellated, slightly 

 shouldered, wdth one or two comparatively large spiral lines 

 on the humeral slope ; growth irregular, interrupted by one or 

 two low varices on each whorl ; body whorl with markings simi- 

 lar to those on the whorls just above, though with finer lines 

 near the base ; labrum sharp-edged, but thickening rapidly 

 behind, varix-like, with close-set, short striatious (or elongate 

 crenulations interiorly), noticeably thickened exteriorly ; labial 

 callosity thickened above. 



Locality. — Alabama : Woods bluff ; Hatchetigbee. 



Type and specimen figzired. — Woods bluff ; Paleontological 

 Museum, Cornell University. 



Macron philadelphicus, n. sp., PI. 7, fig, 8. 



Specific chara5lerization . — Form and size as figured ; whorls 

 probably about eight, though only five showing in the only 

 specimen known ; spiral whorls with about seven broad low 

 undulations or ribs extending from the suture below, three- 

 fourths the way to the suture above where a subsutural con- 

 tra(ftion cuts them off ; body whorl smooth except at base 

 where alternating spirals occur ; shoulder sharp, channeled 

 with a flange appressed to the whorl above ; labium callous ; 

 umbilicus incipient. 



Locality. — Alabama : Yellow Bluff. 



Type. — Lea Memorial Colledtion, Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Nassa cancellata, Lea. 



Aldrich cites this species from Hatchetigbee, Woods bluff, 

 Butler, Bell's and Gregg's landings, Alabama. Our coUecftions 

 afford no representations from Lignitic localities. See A^. exilis. 



