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MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS STROPHIA. 
I did intend to leave much of the matter that I have given in these 
somewhat lengthy digressions, until I came to my general conclusions, 
after going completely through with my monograph, for I have been 
greatly encouraged by the confidence which many have shown in my 
work, especially among the rising generation of naturalists, but as I 
have read, here and there, some occasional allusions to my opinions in 
which the authors quite evidently judged me upon too general 
grounds, without looking into the heart of the matter, I thought it best 
to make these explanations. I now, however, will say that I have 
done, and shall make no more digressions of this nature until the 
completion of my work. This I will say, however, before quite ending 
the subject, should there now remain one doubting Thomas who still 
thinks that there should be given today no more species of Strophia, 
for example, than are given by Reeve in his monograph (some twenty- 
five, 1 think), and that I have been too expansive in my number of 
species, I now most cordially invite him to accompany me on my next- 
trip to the Bahamas, which will probably be next spring, or on any 
following trip, and 1 will venture to say that 1 will show him more 
things in the genus Strophia than he ever dreamed of in his wildest 
philosophy. 
STROPHIA THORMDIKEI Novo. 
Thorndike’s Strophia. 
Fig. 34, D, front view of type. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Sp. ch. Size, small. 
Shell, rather thin and light. Striations, 
present. Whirls, nine. Examined, 2,000 specimens. 
Form of shell, inclined to be cylindrical, the first and second 
whirls being about equal in diameter, and the third is but little 
smaller, then the shell slopes rather quickly to a blunt point, forming 
an angle of about fifty degrees. The striations are rather numerous, 
twenty-one on the first whirl, not prominent, rather regular, and 
arranged in lines ; they are slightly inclined from right to left, are 
rather wide, hence are about as wide as the interspaces between 
them ; they are not furrowed but are smoothly rounded. 
Aperture, quite small, inclined to be rounded, and is slightly 
contracted at the entrance. Lower tooth, quite prominent, .05 high 
by about .12 long, is set well back, .08, is somevTiat elevated and is 
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