136 PL EI OC EN E FOSSILS. 



Description. Shell orate, surface covered with a net-work of lines which give it a 

 granulated appearance; spire shorter than the body; right lip with a few elevated lines 

 which are interrupted, and do not extend to the margin of the lip, which is simple and 

 sharp; pillar covered with a broad callus. 



This is a most abundant shell along the whole coast of the Atlantic shore, and is found ' 

 fossil in the Post Pleiocene in great numbers. 



Plate XXVIII. Fig. 5, Natural size. 



Locality. Waccamaw ; Smith's, Goose Creek. 



Museum, College of Charleston. 



IUOCINUM LUNATTJM. — Adams. 



Plate XXVIII. Fig. 6. 



Nassa lunata, Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 5. p. 213. 

 Buccinum lunatum, Adams, Boston Jour. Nat. Hist., Vol. 2, p. 266. 

 Buccinum hmatum, Gould, Invert. Mass. p. 312, fig. 196. 



B. testa parva, ovato-conica; super -fide laivi; apertura ovali; labro intus dentato. 



Description. Shell small, ovate-conic, surface smooth, aperture oval; outer lip toothed 

 within. 



This small, but very abundant shell of the southern coast is well represented in the 

 fossil state in the Pleiocene of South Carolina, and found in numbers in the Post Pleiocene. 



Plate XXVIII. Fig. 6, Natural size. 



Locality. Pee Dee ; Smith's, Goose Creek. 



Museum, College of Charleston. 



