305 



Bulletin 5 35 



FOSSIL SHELLS. 1 29 



amongst the synonymes of Buccinum scala, and con- 

 sidered as a variety of that shell, which may per- 

 haps be correct ; but in that case the fact of such 

 a shell having been found in Maryland, is at least 

 doubtful. Our shell may be the same with the 

 species which Dillwyn informs us is mentioned in 

 the Portland Catalogue, lot 3516. 



A fine specimen of this shell was sent me some 

 time since by Mr. Stephen Elliott of Charleston, 

 who informed me that it was found with other 

 interesting and perfect shells which accompanied 

 it, on the Santee river, a little below the junction 

 of the Congaree and Wateree rivers. 



Fusus cinereus nobis. A variety of this shell is 

 in Mr. Finch's collection ; it differs but little from 

 the recent shells, the spire and beak are slightly 

 longer. 



FULGUR. 



I. F. canalicidatus , Linn. 



Lister Conch, pi. 878, f. 2. 



Ellis' Coral, pi. 33, f. b. As this latter figure 

 has the channel of the spire, and is accompanied 

 by the ovaries of the canaliculatzis , it is, no doubt, 

 the young of this shell, reversed by an error of 

 the engraver as Dillwyn has already supposed. 



Variety. Sutural channel dilated, columella 

 much arcuated. 



With the exception of the variation above men- 



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