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Sowerby, collected by Heniker from the Miocene beds of Santo Domingo, 

 has not been well figured. The description reads like that of F. tulipa var. 

 obsoleta, a nearly smooth, recent form from St, Thomas. In Guppy's figure 

 (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xxii. pi. xvi. fig. I2, 1866) the specimen is evidently 

 immature and very ventricose in its last whorl. In the absence of specimens 

 or good figures, I do not dare to unite them. It is very probable, however, that 

 this form is nearly related to F. tidipa. In that case the line of ascent would 

 be carried to the Miocene. The divergency between F. tulipa and the type 

 now represented by F. distans is at least as old as this, since we find both 

 types characteristically developed in the southern Pliocene of the United 

 States. 



The specimens in the Philadelphia collection identified by Gabb with F. 

 semistriata agree fairly well with this figure, and I am disposed to regard the 

 species as distinct. 



Fasciolaria distans Lamarck. 



Plate 7, figure 10. 



Fasciolaria distans Lam., An. Sans Vert. vii. p. 119, 1822. Tuomey & Holmes, Post- 



Pleioc. Foss. S. C, p. 151, pi. xx.x. fig. 7, 1856. Holmes, Post- Pleioc. Foss. S. C.,p. 63, pi. 



X. fig. 5, i860. 

 Fasciolaria tulipa Gabb, Tryon et al. not of Lamarck. 



Pliocene of South Carolina (?). Post-Pliocene of S. Carolina and F"lorida. 

 Recent on the coast of the United States from North Carolina to Florida and 

 Texas. 



Fasciolaria (distans subsp. ?) rlioniboidea Rogers. 

 Fasciolaria rhomboidea Rogers, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, new ser., vi. p. 376, pi. xxx. fig. 3, 



1839. Conrad, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. xiv. p. 561, 1863. 

 Fasciolaria distans Emmons, Geol. N. C, p. 252, fig. 113, 1858, ex parte. Tuomey & 



Holmes, Pleioc. Foss. S. Car., p. 151, pi. xxx. fig. 8, 1856. 



Miocene of Virginia (Rogers), Western Florida at Alum Bluff (upper bed. 

 Burns), and of North Carolina, Dauphin County, Haldeman and Emmons. 

 Pliocene (?) of South Carolina, Tuomey & Holmes. 



This form differs from the recent distans in its more acute and longer 

 spire, smaller body-whorl, shorter and wider canal, and in having the first three 

 or four whorls spirally sulcate and without transverse sculpture. As far as 

 one can judge from the traces of coloration, it resembled the recent form at 

 least in having the few dark spiral lines. 



Fasciolaria (distans subsp.?) apicina Dall. 

 Plate 7, figure 11 b. 



Pliocene of Florida in the Caloosahatchie beds. 



This form differs from the recent distans in being more slender, with the 

 whorls less rounded, the suture somewhat appressed and less distinct, and 

 especially in the sculpture of its first three or four whorls. 



