﻿2y4 CONRAD'S DESCRIPTIONS OF 



acute ; angle of body whirl situated about the middle of the shell ; beak sinuous, 

 angle of aperture extending into an elongated, recurved spine. 

 Length I inch. 



PSEUDOLIVA, Swainson. 



Pseudoliva tuberculifera. PI. 47, fig. 27. Short-subfusiform, with well defined 

 revolving lines; angle of body whirl with compressed tubercles; whirls of spire 

 longitudinally ribbed, the penultimate whirl indistinctly ribbed ; above the angle of 

 the body whirl the area is slightly concave and tumid or salient above ; umbilicus 

 none. 



Length 1 inch ; diameter f inch. 



SCALA, Klein. 



ScALA OCTOLINEATA. Turrited; whirls longitudinally cost ate ; ribs distant, very 

 prominent, laminar; revolving lines distant, prominent, continued over the right 

 sides of each varix, the other side rugose ; varices very prominent ; base with a 

 carina. 



Length about li inches. 



Locality. — Mississippi. Dr. Spillman. 



Scala staminea. Subulate ; whirls regularly rounded ; ribs and revolving lines 

 closely arranged, very fine ; base carinated ; below the carina ribs obsolete. 

 Locality. — Claiborne, Alabama. 



Scala lintea. Turrited ; whirls ventricose, broad on the body whirl and rapidly 

 tapering to the apex ; ribs numerous, not close, rising near the suture into subspinous 

 foliations; revolving lines smooth, unequal, rugose. 



Length \l inches. 



Locality. — Claiborne, Alabama. 



ACTEONINA, DOrUgny. 



Acteonina subvaricata. PI. 44, fig. 22. Broadly elliptical ; spire short, conical ; 

 whirls scarcely convex ; revolving lines minute, slightly impressed, closely arranged ; 

 one or two obscure varices ; aperture narrow. 



Locality. — Alabama. Dr. Showalter. 



TORNATELL^EA, Conrad. 



Ovate, ventricose; columella with two slender, prominent folds, the, lower fold 

 not distinctly continuous with the margin of the base. 



Tornatell^ea bella. PI. 47, fig. 23. Ovate ; spire conical; revolving lines nu- 

 merous, impressed, punctate-striate. 



