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in its greater length of beak, which is slender and somewhat curved. None 
of the specimens is perfect at either extremity, so the entire length or 
number of volutions can not be determined. The greater exposed length 
of the volutions in the spire will readily distinguish it. 
Formation and locality: In the upper layer of the Upper Gieen Marls, 
at Shark River, and at Farmingdale, New Jersey. Collection at Rutgers 
College. 
SURCULITES CURTUS, n. sp. 
Plate xxx, Figs. 17-19. 
Shell small, short biconical, about equally long above and below the 
point of greatest diameter, or above and below the angulation of the body 
volution, and the greatest transverse diameter of the body whorl about 
equaling the height of the spire abave that point. These features give 
the body volution a short obconical form below the angulation, exclusive 
of the beak, which is not present in any specimens under examination. 
Above the angulation the whorls are abruptly sloping and almost without 
convexity, and the exposed portion of each upper volution is scarcely 
greater than the width of the upper sloping surface of the same volution. 
Volutions only four in number in the most pertect individual seen. Surface 
marked by moderately fine spiral lines, strongest on the lower part of the 
body whorl; and also by fine, unequal, transverse lines of growth, which 
are strongly arched forward below the angle on the body whorl, and again 
recede below, indicating a very short beak. The transverse stris: on the 
upper surface of the whorls scarcely indicate a sinuosity in this part of 
the lip. | 
This species is very much shorter, proportionally, than S. annosa Con- 
rad, and will be recognized by this feature; while of course it is still further 
removed from S. cadaverosus. | 
Formation and locality: In the upper, stony, layer of the Upper Green 
Marls, at Shark River, New Jersey. Collection at Rutgers College. 
