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43. Turbinelltts (Latiuus) infundibulum, Gmel. 



Gabb describes as new species four forms. I entertain doubt 

 whether they are distinct from the above ; but want of material 

 prevents me from speaking with certainty. 



44. TuRBIXELLIJS ^DIFICATTJS, n. sp. (PI. XXYIII. fig. 5.) 



Shell solid, rimate, very shortly fusiform, spire high, composed of 

 seven or eight whorls adorned with strong longitudinal ribs each 

 terminating on the angle in a subtubular spine, and with numerous 

 close spiral ridges, which are crossed by fine squamose lines of growth. 

 Aperture narrow ; inner lip covered with a thick callus bearing 

 about four plaits. 



Nearest to T. capitellum, Lam. (Kien. Ooq. Yiv. Turbinella, pi. 

 12). Indian Seas. 



This species seems very different from any noticed hitherto. I 

 have endeavoured to identify it with one of Gabb's descriptions, but 

 without success, and therefore assign it provisionally a new name. 

 I am not, however, without a suspicion that the specimens called 

 Vasum haitense by Gabb belong to this species, while his V. tubercu- 

 latum is really the T. haitensis of Sowerby. 



45. Turbinelltts validus, Sow. G. J. vol. ^i. p. 50. 

 Allied to T. scohjmus. 



46. Turbinellus ovoiLEUS, Kieiier. 



47. Tcitr.iNELLUs haitensis, Sow. (PI. XXIX. fig. 3.) 



Turbinellus haitensis, Sow. G. J. vol. vi. p. 50. 

 I think Vasum tuberculatum, Gabb, may be referable to this 

 species. 



48. Fasciolaria semistriata, Sow. G. J. vol. vi. p. 49. 

 Fasciolaria semistriata, Guppy, G. J. vol. xxii. pi. xvi. fig. 12. 



I can detect no difference between F. intermedia and F. semi- 

 striata. The papillary apex noticed by Sowerby as a character of 

 the former is, as Gabb remarks, simply the single nuclear whorl. 

 It may have originally existed in the specimens assigned to F. semi- 

 striata. This species (including F. intermedia) is allied to F. tulvpa. 

 F. textilis, Guppy (Geol. Mag. 1874, p. 410, pi. xvi. fig. 5) is nearer 

 to F. filamentosa, but is more ovoid in shape, and is, indeed, almost 

 intermediate between the groups designated as Turbinellus and 

 Fasciolaria, which, together with Pyrida ( = Cassididus of some 

 authors, but excluding Ficula), may in a large sense be considered 

 as subgenera of Fusus. Another species of Fasciolaria found in the 

 "West-Indian Miocene, but not yet recorded from Haiti, is F. Tar- 

 belliana, Grat. 



49. Pyrtjla meloxgexa, Linn. 



P. consors, Sow. G. J. vol. vi. p. 49. 



Gabb considers that P. patula is conspecific. I have doubts 



