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Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



meeting it at an acute angle ; aperture, ovate, the revolving lines 

 passing into it; labium, with rugose plaits below, upon a reflected 

 callus ; labrum, reflected, with strong plaits in pairs on the edge. 

 Length, of an inch; breadth, y 5 ,,. 



Localities, 200 yards north of railroad bridge below Shubuta, 

 Miss., and also at Red Bluff. 



Differs from all other forms by its prominent lines, absence of any 

 varices, only two nodulous lines, and size. 



Strombus (Canarium) Smithii, n. sp. PI. 2, fig. 6. Shell, ob- 

 long-ovate, whorls six, longitudinally ribbed and crossed by numer- 

 ous fine equidistant revolving lines, with alternating finer ones 

 between each; very fine longitudinal lines between the nodes; 

 concave above and slightly shouldered at the suture ; suture dis 

 tinct ; apex blunt, smooth ; body whorl showing a large rib on the 

 opposite side from the aperture, probably a former lip ; aperture 

 oblong; outer lip inflected, smooth inside ; inner lip showing the 

 revolving lines on the upper part ; a thin callus spreading out over 

 the body whorl ; canal moderate, open, slightly recurved. Length, 

 yq- of an inch ; breadth, -fa. 



Locality, Red Bluff, Miss. 



Living forms are tropical. Named in honor of Dr. Eug. A. 

 Smith, State Geologist of Alabama. 



Scaphander primus, n. sp. PL 2, fig. 7, a, b. Shell ovate, with 

 crowded, inequidistant, transverse striae ; spire concealed ; aper- 

 ture large, expanding below, contracted above by the intrusion of 

 the body whorl ; outer lip sharp, arcuate rising above the apex ; 

 labium with a thin lamina ; shell rather narrow above, rounded 

 and expanded below. Length, of an inch ; breadth, 



Locality, Red Bluffs, Miss. 



Triton (Simpulum) Conradianus, n. sp., PI. 2, fig. 8. Fusi- 

 form; whorls nine, rounded, nodosely ribbed; nodes prominent, 

 rounded, and deeply cut by revolving lines ; revolving lines im- 

 pressed with interstices, flattened upon the upper and middle part 

 of the body whorl ; on the lower part the spaces and lines are inter- 

 changed, the lines being very prominent ; first two whorls of the 



