GASTEROPODA OF THE LOWER GREEN MARLS. 139 
sharp, but close; aperture (as shown on the only specimen in hand, which 
is a matrix containing the shell of one side of the specimen in place and 
from which a gutta-percha cast is taken for description and figure), is 
round, but the margin is not preserved; surface of the shell marked by 
oblique varices, which have a slightly backward direction in crossing 
from the upper to the lower side of the volution; the varices are thin and 
recurved, and number eight on one-half of the cireumference of the last 
volution, but decrease somewhat in number toward the apex of the spire; 
axis imperforate, the base of the last volution bordered by a raised carina, 
below which the varices do not appear to extend. So far as can be ascer- 
tained from the specimen, I should judge that the varices were slightly 
produced in the upper part to form subspines around the base of the pre- 
ceding volution. The minute surface character of the shell can not be ascer- 
tained from the specimen in use, as only the inside of the substance is 
revealed, but Dr. Morton describes it’as. marked by “very minute spiral 
strize,” which one would suppose would naturally be the case. Mr. Gabb 
also speaks of it having “much finer” revolving striea than his Scala (Opalia) 
Thomasi, which is also a New Jersey species, and says that ‘each rib is 
reflected back into a little lip or notch at the angle of the basal carina.” 
This is readily distinguished from S. annulata Morton, by the more 
slender spire and by being a very much smaller shell, with an imper- 
forate axis, that one having a wide, open umbilicus. The shell has so 
exactly the form, taper, size, and style of varices as S. Stllimant as given 
by Dr. Morton, that I have not hesitated to identify it with that species, 
although the type of it was an Alabama shell. I have not seen specimens 
of S. Sillimani from Alabama in a good state of preservation, however, 
and may be in error. 
Formation and locality: In the Lower Green Marl near Holmdel. Col- 
lected by the Rev. Dr. Reiley. Dr. Morton’s specimens were from Prairie 
Bluff, Alabama, but this specimen certainly can not be distinct from the 
one figured by Dr. Morton. _ 
