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Ballast Point, Dall ; two imperfect specimens. 



This is larger, stronger and coarser than C. variegata Pfr. of Cuba, and C. 

 jejuna Gould of Florida, once considered a variety of the Cuban species, may 

 be a degenerate descendant of our Miocene shell. 



TERTIARY MOLLUSKS OF FLORIDA. 



GASTROPODA. 



Order OPISTHOBRANCHIATA. 



Family ACT^ONIDyE. 



Genus ACT.^ON Montfort. 



ActsBon punctostriatus C. B. Adams. 



Tornatella punrtostriata C. B. Adams, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., III. p. 323, pi. iii. fig. 9, 1840. 

 Tornatella punctata OxhKz'ny , 1842, not of Ferussac, 1823; Lea, 1833; or Piette, 1S55. 

 ActcBon cubensis Gabb, Geol. St. Domingo, p. 245, 1873. 



Caloosahatchie beds, several specimens ; recent, in 2-63 fathoms, from 

 Cape Cod to the Antilles. It is also found in the Miocene of New Jersey, at 

 Shiloh, and possibly (as A. textilis Guppy) in the Miocene of Jamaica and Haiti. 

 Actseon punctatus Lea. 



ActcEon punctattis Lea, Contr. Geol., p. in, pi. iv. fig. 96, 1833. 



Monopiygma elegans Lea, op. cit., p. 203, pi. vi. fig. 217. 



Aciison pomilitis Conrad, Foss. Shells Tert. Form., p. 45 (not figured), 1833 ; fide Conr&d. 



Not Tornatella punctata Ferussac, 1823 = T. sulcata Gmelin. 



Not T. punctata Piette, 1855. 



Not Tornatella elegans Sowerby, 1841, nor of M^leville, 1843. 



Caloosahatchie beds, one specimen ; Claiborne sands. Lea and Conrad. 



A single specimen with decollated spire found in the Florida marl does not 

 seem separable from the Alabama species. I have not seen it in the recent 

 state. 



Act(Zon magnoplicatus H. C. Lea (Am. Journ. Sci., vol. 40, p. 94, pi. i. fig. 5, 

 1841), from the type, is a broken Odostoinia. It belongs to the Claiborne 

 sands horizon. 



Genus RINGIOULA Deshayes. 

 Ringicula floridana Dall. 

 Plate 3, figure 8. 

 R. floridanaVtaW, Rep. on Blake Gastr. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool, xviii. p. 44, June, 1889. 



Caloosahatchie beds ; rather rare. 



Ringicula (floridana var. ?) Guppyi Dall. 

 Plate 3, figure 7. 

 R. {floridana var.?) Guppy iY)s\\ op. cit., p. 44, June, 1889. 



Pliocene of the Caloosahatchie, Alligator Creek and Shell Creek beds. 



This species measures 1.6 mm. long by i.o broad, with slight variation in 

 height and strength of the spiral sulci which are very faint sometimes. It is 

 always differently proportioned, thinner and more delicate than R. tridentata 



