146 PLEIOCENE FOSSILS. 



Description. Shell pear shaped, sinistral, ventricose ; summit of each whorl inclined- 

 prominent part of whorl coronated, tuberculated ; spire not turrited ; suture not canalicu- 

 lated, but distinct. 



The recent specimens have often all the whorls coronated at their summits ; it is a 

 common shell on the southern coast. 



Plate XXIX. Fig. 3, Natural size. 



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



BUSY CON CANALICULATUM.— Con. 



Plate XXIX. Fig. 2. 



Buccinum ampullaceum, Lister Conch., t. 878, fig. 2. 



Murex canaliculars, Linn, Martini, Vol. 3, p. 29, t. 67, figs. 742, 743. 



Pyrula canaliculata, Reeve, Conch. Icon., pi. 8, fig. 26. 



Pyrula canaliculata, Gould, Invert. Mass., p. 294, fig. 206. 



Fulgur canaliculatum, Con., Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 6, p. 319. 



Busycon canaliculatum, Con., Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 7, p. 30. 



B. testa pijriformi; anfractihus in apicem planatis, lineis eonvolutis tectis; basali anfractu 

 tumido, candle longo terminato; angulo utriusque anfractus nodulosoj sutura profunde 

 sulcata. 



Description. Shell pear shaped ; whorls flattened on the summit, covered with 

 revolving lines ; body whorl tumid, terminating in a long canal ; angle of each whorl 

 nodular, suture deeply channelled. 



The nodular keel which crowns the summit of each whorl, and the deeply channelled 

 suture will distinguish this species readily. 



Common in a recent state on this coast. 



Plate XXIX. Fig. 2, Natural size. 



Locality. Waccamaw. Museum, College of Charleston 



