Bulletins of American paleontology . , two and rather distant, and faint indica-tions of an intermediate one. Found in the miocene of theCape Fear river. VOLUTA TEENHOL^IIi: TUOMET cL- n0L:\IES, FOSSILS OF SOUTH-CAIi-OLIXA, p. 12S.—(Fig. 140.) Shell fusiform, ventricose ; whirls compressed above, spi-rally and transversely striated ; striae wrinkled and coarse atbase; spire short and sub-cancellated, papillated; aper-ture semi-lunar; outer lip acute, smooth within; columellalip very thin, decumbent, almost obsolete, semi-callous, notdistinguishable from the body-whirl, but by outhue and color.
Bulletins of American paleontology . , two and rather distant, and faint indica-tions of an intermediate one. Found in the miocene of theCape Fear river. VOLUTA TEENHOL^IIi: TUOMET cL- n0L:\IES, FOSSILS OF SOUTH-CAIi-OLIXA, p. 12S.—(Fig. 140.) Shell fusiform, ventricose ; whirls compressed above, spi-rally and transversely striated ; striae wrinkled and coarse atbase; spire short and sub-cancellated, papillated; aper-ture semi-lunar; outer lip acute, smooth within; columellalip very thin, decumbent, almost obsolete, semi-callous, notdistinguishable from the body-whirl, but by outhue and color. 172 Bulletin 249 NORTH-CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SUIBVEY. 263 Columellar tumid, tortuous; obliquely plaited with three^ folds. VOLUTA OBTUSA.—N. S. (Fig. 141.) Shell fusiform, contracted abovethe body-whirl, and forming therebya sub-cylindrical spire ; spire obtuseapex papillated and hook-ed ; body-whirl plaitedlongitudinally at its tup:columellar lip furnislnMJwith only tAvo plaits. Mr, Flowers miocci;.-marl, Bladen county. Fig. FAMILY COXIDAE. As the name implies, the shells are conical from tiic tivv^i-]->re})ondcranco of the body whirl over the short (h.|)res!--e*i-pirc. The aperture is long and narrow, and the outer lip i-notched near its suture. CONrS ADVERSARirS—COX. -(Fig. 142.) biiell conical and turned to the left; the surhicc is markcoby revolving lines ; towards the face of the pillar lip the linesare strong ; whirls of the spire rather concave; edges sub-carinated ; labrum sharp, edge convex, and forming a sinusnear the suture. Common in all the marl, beds upon tlxNeuse and Cape Fear rivers. CONUS DILUIVIANUS.—(Fig. 143.)Shell conical, much smaller than the preceeding, and tinwhirls are turned to the right; surface markings the samethe revolving lines are less oblique than in the C. adversariu^ North Carolina Geol. Sur.: Emmons264: nortir-cakolina geologicai. sukvey, 173 They are associated together in about equal numbers. Neitherspecies are found in old
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