CHAZY LIMESTONE. 
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The striae on the side of the shell, near the mouth, bend backwards more than is 
represented in the figure. 
Fig. 2 a. An obliquely lateral view of the specimen, showing the spire, with the striae upon the surface 
of the shell. 
Fig. 2 b. View of the spire denuded of the shell. 
Position and locality. This species occurs in the lower fine-grained limestone, at Chazy, 
Clinton county, where it is associated with the following species, but never with the 
preceding one. (State Collection.) 
49. 2. RAPHISTOMA STAMINEA (n. sp.). 
Pl. VI. Figs. 4, 5, 5 a. 
Maclurea labiata ? Emmons, Geol. Report, 1842, as above. 
Compare with the last described species. 
Discoidal, depressed towards the margin, with the central portion of the spire rising 
somewhat above the outer volution ; volutions about four or five, sharply angulated on the 
outer side, nearly flat above and subventricose beneath ; surface marked by strong elevated 
rounded striae, which, bending in a curve backwards from the suture, are interrupted along 
the centre of the upper part of the whorl by a concentric elevated line (fig. 5), passing the 
sharp angle of the volution ; the striae bend abruptly forwards, and, curving gently around, 
pass into the umbilicus ; cast of the inner volutions rounded above. 
Breadth about once and a half the height. 
This species is clearly indicated by the strong concentric line or imbrication which 
interrupts the striae upon the upper surface of the volutions. I have, however, seen some¬ 
thing of the kind obscurely indicated upon the last described species. No such concentric 
line or interrupted striae (indicating the generic character) are mentioned or indicated in the 
descriptions and figures referred to, and it is therefore proper to regard this as a distinct 
species. 
The specimen fig. 4 differs so little from the type of the species, that, for the present, it 
is united with the same. Numerous imperfect specimens have been found in this rock, 
indicating several distinct species ; but I have not yet been able to define their characters 
with sufficient precision to describe them. 
Fig. 5. View of the spire, the inner volutions partially denuded of the shell. 
Fig. 5 a. A lateral view, showing the aperture, which is distorted by crushing from above. The denuded 
spire is shown to rise considerably above the outer volution. The striae upon the side do 
not bend forward as much as in the original. 
Position and locality. In the lower granular portion of the limestone, at Chazy village, 
Clinton county. 
