DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 
MOLLUSCA, 
Class GASTEROPODA. 
Subclass PROSOBRANCHIATA. 
Order PECTINIBRANCHIATA. 
Family MURICID. 
Genus TUDICLA Bolton. 
TUDICLA PLANIMARGINATA, lL. Sp. 
Plate 1, Figs. 1-3. 
Shell small or somewhat below a medium size, very ventricose, ‘with 
a very low spire composed of but little more than two entire volutions in 
the cast; outer volution large, forming ‘the great bulk of the shell and 
having a diameter considerably greater than the entire height, including 
the short beak and canal. Volutions marked on the periphery by a flat- 
tened, vertical band, bordered above and below by an angulation; a second 
angulation also marking the upper surface midway between the top of the 
vertical flattening and the suture line, and still another on the under side of 
the volution near the base of the beak; columellar cavity only of medium 
size, with aperture large, wider or about as wide as high, but little modi- 
fied on the inner side by the preceding volution; lip slightly expanded; 
surface unknown. a 
The species somewhat resembles in its general appearance Pyropsis 
trivolvis Gabb, from the Middle Marls; but it has a much lower spire, com, 
posed of fewer volutions, and the anterior beak has been quite short. 
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