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in its greater length of beak, which is slender and somewhat curved. None 

 of the specimens is perfect at either extremity, so the entire length or 

 number of volutions can not be determined. The greater exposed length 

 of the volutions in the spire will readily distinguish it. 



Formation and locality : In the upper layer of the Upper Grreen Marls, 

 at Shark River, and at Farmingdale, New Jersey. Collection at Rutgers 

 College. 



SURCULITES CURTUS, n. Sp. 



Plate XXXIII, Figs. 17-19. 



Shell small, short biconical, about equally long above and below the 

 point of greatest diameter, or above and below the angulation of the body 

 volution, and the greatest transverse diameter of the body whorl about 

 equaling the height of the spire above that point. These features give 

 the body volution a short obconical form below the angulation, exclusive 

 of the beak, which is not present in any specimens under examination. 

 Above the angulation the whorls are abruptly sloping and almost without 

 convexity, and the exposed portion of each upper volution is scarcely 

 greater than the width of the upper sloping surface of the same volution. 

 Volutions only four in number in the most perfect individual seen. Surface 

 marked by moderately fine spiral lines, strongest on the lower part of the 

 body whorl; and also by fine, unequal, transverse lines of growth, which 

 are strongly arched forward below the angle on the body whorl, and again 

 recede below, indicating a very short beak. The transverse striae on the 

 upper surface of the whorls scarcely indicate a sinuosity in this part of 

 the lip. 



This species is very much shorter, proportionally, than S. annosa Con- 

 rad, and will be recognized by this featm-e; while of course it is still further 

 removed from 5^. cadaverosus. 



Formation and locality: In the upper, stony, layer of the Upper Green 

 Marls, at Shark River, New Jersey. Collection at Rutgers College. 



