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Subgenus Phyllonotus Swainson. 

 Mures (Phyllonotus) pomum Gmelin. 



Murex poinuni Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 3527; Reeve, Conch. Icon. Murex, fig. 35, 1845; 



Dall, Blake Gastr., p. 198, 1889. 

 Murex oculaiui Reeve, op cit. sp. 36, 1845. 

 Murex asperrimus (Lam.) Orbigny, Moll. Cuba, ii. p. 158, 1853. 

 Murex niexicanus Petit, Journ. de Conchyl. iii. p. 51, pi. ii. fig. 9, 1852. 

 Murex imperialis Swainson, Zool. 111., 2d sen, ii. p. 67. Tryon, IMan. ii. p. loi, pi. 23, 



fig. 206 ; Heilprin, Trans. Wagner Inst. i. p. 68, 1887. 

 Murex globosa Emmons, Geol. N. Car., p. 247, fig. 105a, 1858. 

 Murex globosus Conrad, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. xiv. p. 560, 1863 ; Meek, Checklist 



Mice. Inv. Foss. N. Am., p. 22, 1864. 

 Murex pomiformis (Martini) Auctorum. 



Fossil in the Miocene of N. Carolina (Emmons) and of Bowden, Jamaica; 

 the Pliocene of the Caloosahatchie and Alligator Creek, Florida ; Post-Plio- 

 cene of the Antilles ; and living in the Antillean region and northward to 

 North. Carolina. 



More evidence is required to confirm the presence of this species in the 

 Carolinian Miocene, as reported by Emmons. It is possible that it is found 

 there, but it has not been found by any one else, so far, in beds of that age, 

 so far north. The Bowden specimens are identified with certainty. 



Subgenus Pteronotus Swainson. 



Murex (Pteronotus) textilis Gabb. 



Plate 9, figure 4. 



Murex textilis Gabb, Geol. Rep. Santo Domingo, p. 202, 1873; Guppy, Quart. Journ. 



Geol. Soc. xxxii. p. 522, pi. 29, fig. i, 1876. 

 M. compactus Gabb, op. cit. 



Miocene of Santo Domingo and Haiti ; Pliocene marls of the Caloosa- 

 hatchie and Shell Creek, South Florida. 



This fine species, never having been adequately figured, is here illustrated 

 from a Floridian specimen collected on the Caloosahatchie by the writer. 



The group to which this species belongs is represented by three living 

 species, of rather deep water, off the southeastern coast of the United States. 

 In the fossil state it reaches a very respectable age, if, as seems probable, the 

 Murex Matthewsoni Aldrich, from the Lower Eocene of Matthews' Landing, 

 Alabama, should be referred to it. The latter is a young shell and closely 

 related to M. (Pteronotus) angebis Aldrich, from the Red Bluff division of the 

 Jackson group, if the figures are to be trusted. The Claiborne sands afford 

 the M. [jPteronotiis) engonatus Conrad, with which the Fusus sexaugiihis of the 

 same author is synonymous. 



The Pacific coast of the United States has a living species, which strongly 

 recalls the P. textilis, in the P.festizms of Hinds, which is, however, consider- 

 ably smaller. 



