STKOMBID^l. 



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in the American Tertiary ; as a memento of my late colleague, Professor Tuomey, who 

 was present when I found this beautiful shell, I have given it his name. 



Plate IX. Fig. 8, Shell, natural size. 



" 8a, A view of dorsal surface. 



" 8b, View of abdominal surface. 



" 8c, Side view, showing lateral fissures. 



" 8d, End view, showing mouth. 



" 8e, Apex. 



Locality. Simmons'. Cabinet F. S. H. 



Genus, STROMBUS. 



STROM BUS PUGILIS. 



Plate X. Fig. 1 and la 



Strombus pugilis, Linn., Syst. Nat., Ed. 12, p. 1209. 

 Strombus pugilis, Kiener, pi. 20. 



Strombus pugilis, Lam., An. sans Vert, Vol. 9, p. 696. 

 i Strombus pugilis, Dillwyn's Cat., Vol. 2, p. 664. 



Description. Shell ponderous, turbinated, ventricose, transversely spinous, base and 

 spire striated, lip rounded at the projecting summit, deeply notched in front. 

 No longer an inhabitant of the Carolina coast, but common on that of Florida. 



Plate X. Fig. 1, Shell, natural size. 

 " la, Young shell. 



Locality. Simmons' Bluff; St. Paul's. Museum, College of Charleston. 



Genus, MUREX.— Linn. 



MUREX SPINACOSTATAS. — Valenc. 



Plate X. Fig. 2. 



Murex spinacostatas, Valenc. 



Murex asperrimus, Ravenel, Cat. Coll. Shells, p. 15. 



Murex , L. R. Gibbes, Tuomey's Geol. So. Ca., appendix, p. xx. 



Description. Shell sub-ovate, thick, transversely striated; spire prominent, whorls 

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