Part II - State of New Jersey

Remarks.-"This species resembles 1II. naticella, but it is moreelongate, wit11 a higher spire, more loosely coiled volutions and a muchbroader umbilicus as indicated by the width of the mnbilic;ll cavit,yin the cast." (\TTeller)Range in New Jersey-WOOUBUHY: 20AZT. LAUREL-Xh\'ESIXK: 33,47T?lpe.-Cross\viel;s, X. ,I. ; AXSP 14967.Family Buecinidae"Pyrula" precedens (7Vhitfield) 1892Plate 54, Figures 1, 2E'icus precedens Whitfield, 1892, p. 122, pl. 15, figs. 7-8.P,yrula precodens IVeller, 1907, p. 724, pl. 84, figs. 3-4.Description.-"Shell small, pyriform; volutions ahout three, veryventricose, inflated in the upper part. rapidly attenuated belolv andcontracted to form a moderately long, slender canal and bealr, whichis very slightly bent; splre low, hut the inner volutions distinctly showingabove the outer ones, with a well-defined suture; aperture elongateelliptical,prolonged below to the end of the canal, which is very narrow;surface of the shell marked by 12 principal prominent, spiralcarina, between vhich there is in each space a single subordinate ridgeshowing on the east; toward the lower part of the volution and on thebeak they are more equal in size, and on the body of the volution theprincipal carina are nodose, or serrated, from the crossing of transverseribs which pass across the volution in a nearly straight line parallel tothe margin of the outer lip of the aperture. In a fragment of the matrix,from near the inner part of the outer whorl the principal spiral ridgesare seen to be sharply carinate, and the transverse striae fine and numerous;eolun~ella without ridges or folds of any kind." (Whitfield)Remarks.-This species somewhat resembles h7apulus retifor(Gahb). In this respect IVeller states: "The casts of P. precedens,however, do not show so large a columellar cavity and the anterior beakis more slender. The spiral ridges are also more numerous and moresharply elevated than in P. (i.e., A'apnlus) retijer, and the decided alternationamong them is a distinguishing character."Range in New Jersey-NAVESINIZ: 41Type.-Holmdel,N. J.; apparently lost.NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY