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eighteen very fine longitudinal riblets, well developed on the sub- 

 sutural fasciole and continuing over the remainder of the whorl 

 beneath the slight sulcus marking off the fasciole; spiral sculp- 

 ture of four narrow, flat bands on each whorl between the fasciole 

 and the suture of the following volution, and a spiral thread 

 usually lies next to the suture, anterior to the bands. Length of 

 fragmentary shell with eleven whorls, 12 mm., greatest diameter 

 4 mm. 



Among some specimens labelled T. dislocata Say by Gabb, 

 collected by him in Santo Domingo (C. U. Museum No. 7666) 

 is a single shell exactly like a specimen of T. protexta Conrad in 

 the Newcomb collection, dredged in Sarasota Bay. The latter 

 is a typical example of Conrad's species and its sculpture matches 

 perfectly that of the fossil shell. The fossil is much more like 

 the recent specimens of protexta than like the Miocene represen- 

 tatives of that species. 



T. protexta is now living from Hatteras to Texas in 2-50 

 fathoms. It has apparently not been found in the recent Antil- 

 lean molluscan fauna, but is present in the Miocene of the Caro- 

 linas, Pliocene of South Carolina and Florida, and Post- Pliocene 

 of North Carolina, and Florida. Unfortunately, like all Gabb's 

 specimens, our Dominican shell has no locality label further than 

 Santo Domingo. 



Terebra incsqualis Sowerby 

 Plate 4, Figure 2 



Terebra inceqalis Sowerby, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, vol. 6, p. 



47, 1849. 

 Terebra incequalis Guppy, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc, vol. 22, p. 290, 1866. 

 Terebra incsqualis Gabb, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., vol. 14, p. 224, 1873. 



Shell slender, tapering to an acute spire, earlier whorls 

 with a sub-sutural raised band followed by a second band 

 about half the width of the first, from which it is separated by an 

 impressed line. The two bands occupy slightly more than half 



