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On page 293 of the same article the author includes under this genus 

 his VohdUitltes hella and V. miicroiiata with several others. In the synopsis of 

 the Volntlda' which Mr. Gabb gives in this same article he places these 

 under that famih' without question. The two species just mentioned, hella 

 and murroiHifa, so far as I am able to determine, are precisely the same 

 generically as the typical species of Piestochihis Meek, and are certainly 

 more nearly related to the FasciolarmlcB than to the Votiifidce, even if the 

 type of Volutodenna, V. Conradi, should be considered as related to the 

 latter family; which, from its narrow elongated canal and nearly vertical 

 columellar folds, I should be inclined to dispute. There is certainly no 

 feature possessed by these two species that could be considered as incom- 

 patible with those of Meek's genus ; although we do not know their surface 

 characters. But we have no evidence of the strong vertical or revolving 

 folds and ridg-es which apparently characterize Volniomorplia Conradi. I am, 

 however, inclined to retain both genera under the family Fasciolariidce, and 

 shall place these two, and other allied species under Piestochihis, retaining 

 the V. Conradi for Gabb's generic division; the principal points of difference 

 between them being in the shorter spire and longer beak of Volutomorpha, 

 with its strong surface markings and the more equally fusiform body and 

 proportionally shorter canal of Piestochihcs, with its probable striated sur- 

 face and more subdued vertical folds. Mr. Tryon, in his Structural and 

 Systematic Conchology, vol. 2, p. 129, cites Piestochihis as a synonym of 

 Clavella Swainson, and states that Meek suspected that it belonged to that 

 genus. I can not find anywhere that Mr. Meek suspected it as belonging to 

 Clavella. He did at one time place some of the species under Clavellites 

 Swainson. In the U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., vol. 9, Invert. Pal., almost the 

 last thing Mr. Meek wrote, he places the genus under the Fasciolariidce, to 

 which it nndoubtedl}' belongs. 



