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specimens from Burlington, where I have separated them from the matrix 

 so as to get the impression of the shell as left in the fine sand, they are seen 

 in a very perfect manner. The lines are exceedingly fine and threadlike, 

 but regular and distinct. 



Formation and locality : As yet I have noticed the species only from the 

 vicinity of BurHngton, New Jersey. Mr. Gabb's specimens were also from 

 the same county. 



Genus MARGARITELLA M. & H. 



Margaritella Abbotti. 



Plate XVII, Figs. 13-15. 



Architedonica Abbotti Gabb : Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1861, p. 321. 

 Margaritella Abbotti (Gabb) Meek: Check List Oret and Jur. Foss., p. 18; Geol. 



N. J., Newark, 1868, p. 728. 

 Pleurotomaria crotaloides (Mort.) Gabb: Synopsis, p. 69, and Cirrhus crotaloides, 



p. 47. 

 Solariella Abbotti (Gabb) Stoliczka: India Geol. Surv., Pal. Indica, Cret. Fauna 



South. India, vol. 2, p. 367. 



Shell of medium size, subdiscoid with a very low, depressed-convex 

 spire and nearly flat base; volutions four or five, rather slender, coiled 

 one below the other, their upper surfaces rounded, with deep suture line, 

 keeled on the periphery in the cast, and very depressed convex on the lower 

 side between the abrupt, moderate sized umbilicus and the outer angle ; 

 margin of the umbilicus abruptly rounded and the opening less than one- 

 third of the entire diameter of the shell at any given point ; upper surface 

 of the volutions marked by closely arranged, but distinctly marked trans- 

 verse undulations, which extend from the suture outward to about one-third 

 of the width of the volution, and appear to have been directed slightly 

 backward in their course ; surface texture of the shell composed of fine spiral 

 lines and finer transverse lines; section of the volution narrow ovate, 

 three-fifths as high as wide, rounded on the inner end and acute on the outer 

 margin. 



The above description is taken from the Mullica Hill specimens in the 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., which are partially Mr. Gabb's types. A comparison 



