﻿286 CONRAD'S DESCRIPTIONS OF 



rugose, unequal, revolving lines, and without ribs ; lines of growth distinct ; whirls 

 slightly concave above, and below the suture is a wide, little elevated ridge. 



A small species, apparently elongated. 



Locality. — Occurs with the preceding. 



DRILLIA? Gray. 



Drillia? distans. PI. 46, fig. 49. Fusiform; spire and aperture about equal in 

 length ; whirls slightly convex inferiorly, ridged below the suture ; ridge crenate- 

 striate ; ribs rounded, distant ; revolving lines distinct on the beak and towards the 

 summit, elsewhere obsolete ; beak slightly produced. 



Locality. — Eufaula, Alabama. Tuomey's collection. 



FUSUS, Klein. 



Fusus Tippana. PL 46, fig. 41. Fusiform ; spire conical, acute ; whirls seven, 

 angulato-concave above ; angle near and above the suture salient and tuberculated ; 

 revolving lines obsolete on the spire, large and prominent on the body whirl, is cari- 

 nated by a larger, more prominent line running from near the upper extremity of the 

 aperture ; beak slightly recurved, about equal in length to the spire. 



Length li inches. 



Locality. — Tippah Co., Mississippi. Dr. Spillman. 



STREPSIDURA, Swainson. 



Strepsidura Ripleyana. PI. 46, fig. 42. Fusiform, longitudinally ribbed ; ribs 

 numerous, angular, acute, revolving lines distinct ; body whirl ventricose, shoulder 

 angular, subcarinated, disposed to be tuberculated, angulato-concave above ; a row of 

 tubercles margins the suture inferiorly ; spire scalariform ; volutions five ; beaks 

 sinuous. 



Length II inches; width I inch. 



Locality. — Occurs with the preceding. Dr. Spillman. 



VOLUTILITHES, Swainson. 



Volutilithes EuFAiTLENSis. PL 47, fig. 18. Fusiform, moderately thick; about 

 twelve distant ribs on the body volution ; ribs angulated, prominent, wanting towards 

 the beak, very prominent at the superior termination on the shoulder ; volutions 

 about nine; spire short; above the angle of the body whirl space concave, with 

 rather closely arranged, wrinkled, revolving lines prominent on the penultimate 

 whirl ; on the body whirl they consist of slightly impressed, rather wide furrows ; 

 columella with one very oblique fold. Length 5 2 inches ; width 2 J inches. 



Locality. — Eufaula, Alabama. Tuomey's collection. 



