199 Midway Stage 85 



Localities. — Texas: Elgin, Bastrop Co. 



Alabama: Matthews' Landing, i ini. W. of Oak 

 Hill. 



Type.—Kc. Nat". Sci., Phila. 



Volutilithes q2iercollis n. sp., PI. 8, fig. 4. 



Specific characterization. — Size and general form as indicated 

 by the figure; whorls 7; i and 2 smooth; the remainder with 

 somewhat arcuate costations; lines of growth extremely minute, 

 longitudinal, i. e., not oblique, hence occasionally crossing the 

 oblique costae; sunken spiral lines very faint just below the su- 

 ture, then occurring in pairs over the rest of the whorl; between 

 each pair on each costa a nodose projection is formed giving the 

 shell a rough appearance; columella with one, and perhaps two, 

 rather strong folds and traces of smaller ones; costation evanes- 

 cent on lower part of body whorl. 



Locality. — Alabama: Dale's Branch, near Oak Hill. 



Type. — Paleontological Museum, Cornell Univ. 



LYRIA. 



Lyria wilcoxiana, PI. 8, fig. 5. 



Syn. L. wilcoxiana Aid., Geol. Surv. Ala., 1894, p. 243, pi. 

 12, fig. 4. 



Aldricli's original description. — "Shell rounded fusiform, whorls 

 four, spire blunt, first three whorls smooth, body whorl trans- 

 versely ribbed, the ribs rather sharp with concave spaces; no spiral 

 sculpture shown; suture distinct, not deeply impressed; body 

 whorl long terminating in a canal, which is missing in specimen 

 figured; aperture long and narrow, inner lip showing a few pli- 

 cations, but the aperture is filled in so that the lips are almost 

 completely hidden. 



"Specimen is partially silicified. Prof. Dall refers to this 

 species, but without describing it in Trans. Wag. Fr. Inst. Sci., 

 vol. iii, p. 69. Type in National Museum." 



According to Mr. Aldrich's notes elsewhere in his article, the 

 locality for this species is on or near McConnico's plantation, 

 Wilcox Co., Ala. 



A specimen in our collection from i mi. N. of Midway is prob- 

 ably of this species, but has a slightly higher spire and so far as 

 can be determined has no columellar plaits. 



