Lithostrobus picus, Bütschli, 1882, Zeitschr. f. wiss. Zool., vol. xxxvi. p. 529.
Eucyrtidium picus, Ehrenberg, 1875, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 72, Taf. xi. fig. 1.
Shell slenderly conical, smooth, with straight axis, and six to eight slight strictures. Joints of different lengths, the second twice as long as each of the three following, and four times as long as each of the last joints; the sixth joint one and a-half times as broad as the second. Small circular pores in regular transverse rows; six rows in the first and the second, three rows in the third, fourth, and fifth, a single row in each of the last joints. Horn of the cephalis cylindrical, half as long as the shell.
Dimensions.—Length of the shell (with eight joints) 0.12, length of the second joint 0.03; breadth 0.04.
Habitat.—Fossil in Barbados.
13. Lithostrobus argus, Bütschli.
Lithostrobus argus, Bütschli, 1882, Zeitschr. f. wiss. Zool., vol. xxxvi. p. 529.
Eucyrtidium argus, Ehrenberg, 1875, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 70, Taf. ix. fig. 1.
Shell conical, thorny, with straight axis, and five to seven slight strictures. Joints of different lengths, each of the three first twice as long as each of the following. Pores large, roundish, in transverse rows; three rows in the first and the second joints (which in the figure of Ehrenberg are not separated), two rows in the third joint, a single row in each of the following joints. Horn of the cephalis large, conical, curved, half as long as the shell.
Dimensions.—Length of the shell (with seven joints) 0.2, length of the fourth joint (and each following) 0.02; breadth 0.1.