8! 
ELLIPSOLITHES* 
Gen. Char. Shell univalve, elliptical, involute, 
chambered, all the volutions apparent. Aper- 
ture lunulate on account of receiving in its 
inner part the return of the volution. 
ELLIPSOLITHES funatus. 
TAB. XXXII. 
Spec. Char. Shell with numerous transverse sim 
pie rounded risings, relieved bj rather wider 
grooves, at intervals a kind of constriction 
distinguished by a small protuberance on the 
inner part of the rising immediately beyond it. 
Shell smooth; whorles three or four, half concealed; 
long diameter, three inches; short diameter two and a 
quarter; thickness, one and an half. 
The general appearance of this curious production would 
bespeak it a multilocular shell, and De Montfort describes 
it as such ; our specimen however does not expose such a 
character so distinctly as might be desired, yet I believe 
sufficiently in one part. Although in this respect hardly 
satisfactory, I could not avoid treating my friends with a 
knowledge of this curious rarity belonging to the Black- 
rock range, S. E. of Cork, as discovered by my friend 
Samuel Wright, Esq. in 1812. It is a fairly elliptical 
species, and although the specimen is * somewhat dis- 
torted, the curve is sufficiently apparent to decide upon; 
besides which there is at intervals a sort of constriction ? 
