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Scaphella sp., PI. 7, fig. 23. 



We have not good enough specimens of this species to warrant 

 a specific description. It has seemed best to call attention to 

 the existence of such a species so that others ma}^ find better or 

 more determinable specimens. 



Locality. — Mississippi: >^ mi. N. of Ripley. See p. 24, bed e. 



Specimen figured. — Paleontological Museum, Cornell Univ. 



VOLUTA. 



Voluta lyroidea, • PI. 7, fig. 22. 



S5^n. VohUilithes lyroidea Aid., Geol. Surv. Ala., 1894, p. 245, 

 pl. 13, fig. 7. 



Aldrich's original description. — "Shell short, fusiform surface 

 strongly ribbed with about eight plications ending rather abrupt- 

 ly at suture, giving the shell a shouldered appearance, no spiral 

 lines observable, surface smooth, suture strongly impressed, spire 

 missing in the type. The ribs are not continuous from one whorl 

 to the other but alternate; body whorl large, ending in a short 

 recurved canal. Aperture oblong. 



" This species has a general resemblance to Volutilithes rugattis 

 Con., but lacks the long canal, and has no spiral sculpture. 

 The aperture is too imperfect to determine the exact generic 

 position. It may turn out to be a Lyria. 



"Length of part remaining 30mm.; breadth 14mm. Type 

 in the National Museum." 



Localities. — Alabama: Palmer's mill, see frontispiece; W. W. 

 McConnico's plantation, lyi mi. S. W. of Pal- 

 mer's mill. 



Vohita filorencis n. sp. , PI. 8, figs. 6, a. 



Specific characterization. — Size and general form as indicated 

 by the figures; whorls unknown at apex, lower ones marked by 

 about 7-9 plications, narrower than the interspaces, subacute, 

 strongest at base of whorls; body whorl with 9 longitudinal pli- 

 cations, strong and subacute on the largest portion of the whorl 

 but dying out rather rapidly below and reappearing above with 

 some force near the suture; columella with four strong, nearl}^ 

 equal, oblique plaits, above which there are sometimes traces of 

 three faint ones; anterior canal strongly deflected as in V. muri- 

 cina Lam. ; substance of the shell very thick. 



The columellar and canal features are determined by means of 



