Part II - State of New Jersey

GASTROPODARange in Xew Jersey-MARSI-IALLTOWN: 28, 31,32&IT. LAUREL-NAVESINIC: 37, 39, 40, 41, 45, 53TINTON: 62, 63Range otctsirle Pew Jevseylfarylanrl,Alabama, Nississippi.T!jpe.-Noxnhee Co., Miss., missing.Pyropsis ? obesa TT1hitfield 1892Plate 54, Figure 14Pgropsk ? obesa JVhitfield, 1892, p. 40, pl. 3, figs. 12-13.Pyropsis ? obesa Weller, 1907, p. 748, pl. 88, figs. 6-6.Description.-"Shell of moderate size, very ventricose, with veryround, full, short volutions, and short obtuse spire, the body volutionbeing prod~~ced below to form a short beak of almost insignificant proportions,as shown by the cast; apical angle about 80' ; volutions aboutthree in number, very short and compact: smooth on the surface, excepton the last one, where spiral lines are shown to havc existed on theshell and to have left their imprint; only about five or six of these traeeable,and those on the lower side; aperture moderately large, obliqnclyovate, rounded above and pointed below; columella rather strong, some-\\-hat flexnose. judging ft.on1 the axial cavity left in the cast, and apparentlymarked by a single, rather prominent oblique ridge in itslower part.'' (\TThitfield)Ren1arks.-This species is evidently not a true Pyropsis because ofthe presence of the eolumcllar fold. Whitfield was not able "to place itsatisfactorily under any known genus," at the time he described it,and it may he allowed to remain with a question, where it mas placedby the original author. (Weller)Pyropsis reileyi WhitfieldPlate 57, Fignres 1, 2; Plate 90, Figure 7Pyropsis raileyi Whitfield, 1892, p. 42, pl. 2, fig. 17 (? not figs. 11-16,18-20?=P. lrochiformis (Tuomey).Pyropsis trochiformis Wcller, 1907, (part) p. 746, p1. 87, figs. 1-3.Pyropsis reilcyi Gardncr, 1916, p. 448.Description.-"Shell of medium size, suhglobular or glohularlyovate in general form, with a moderately elevated spire and subventri-NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY