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outer lip much thickened, the edge subreflexed, bearing at about 
the upper third a stout tubercle, below which it is crenulately 
toothed within; contracted at base by another small tubercle. 
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largest. Siphon narrow, a little prolonged and recurved, with 
acute edges. Color fulvous brown, specked with bluish white, 
with an interrupted band, or spots, of deep brown below the 
suture, a pale band over the tubercles and another, bordered 
with brown, below the middle of the body whorl. Length 1 
inch; breadth 50; length of body whorl °63; length of aper- 
ture 68; breadth -12. 
»—J. Pedersen. Five specimens. 
This species is closely allied to the next, but is more slender, 
with the spire more acute, smaller tubercles and coste, a more 
prozac and recurved siphon, and more contracted aperture. 
€ surface is not smooth and the color is lighter. 
: Lyria (Eneta) Cumingii. 
Voluta Oumingii Brod., Zoél. Soc. Proc. of Comm. of Science, 1832, p. 33. 
Lyria (Eneta) Cumingii. Adams, Genera, p. 167, 1858. 
18 scarcely prolonged and not recurved. The color is dar 
"ich brown, mottled and spotted with light bluish and flesh-color, 
with submedian and tubercular interrupted paler bands on the 
last whorl and an interrupted band of eep brown spots below 
Suture on the spine; interior salmon-color. 
__ Length 1:38; breadth °75; length of body-whorl -85; aper- 
ture “23 broad; -82 of an inch long. 
Paz,—J. Pedersen. Three specimens. ee 
Among the other species of special interest are Codakia tigerina 
and fine), Raeta undulata (numerous valves), Cyathodonta plicata, 
Placunanomia Cumingii (three large specimens), Conella cedon- 
uelli (many varieties of color), Conus (like lextilis), Oypreea pul- 
chra Kiener (ten specimens), Cyprea (Luponia) Sowerby and 
L. albuginosa (both in considerable numbers), Cassis tenuis (finely 
rpa crenata (several varieties of color), Cassedulus 
Patulus, ete., all from La Paz and vicinity. 
of this Journal, 99, the gen - 
Substituted for ‘Pentaceros. ‘This change was mile aa 
after obtaining the reference to ceros in Cuy. and Val. but 
the correction was overlooked by the printer. 
