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Unfortunately Gabb nowhere records any notes on other species, 
except eight, as quoted in this paper. 
1s. H. puranti Newcomb, 1864 (var. ce/ata Mazyck). Santa 
Barbara Island, J. G. C. (types). Northern race from Healdsburg, 
38° 38’, Calif., to Sta. Barbara, Hemphill. The var. thence south 
to San Tomas, lat. 31° 35’, Yates, Hemphill. 
16. H. KELLETTU, Forbes,.1850. ‘‘ California,’ (Santa Bar- 
bara),? Kellett. ‘‘San Juan del Fuaco,’”’ (F orbes). This San Juan 
having been proved to be neither the Straits of De Fuca, nor San Juan 
Capistrano, southern California, lat. 33° 30” (northern limit of this 
shell), is usually considered as the port on the east coast, lat. 26° 
20’, visited by Lt. Greene, who did not find this shell there (neither 
did Gabb). Forbes states that this and 4 pandore were obtained 
on the west coast, probably between ‘‘ San Diego and Magdalena 
Bay,” lat. 24° 32’. (Carpenter, Rept. on Moll. of West Amer., 
1856, p. 239.) Yet it has been generally confounded with the Straits 
of Juan de Fuca (an explorer, who made no claim to be a saint). 
Kellett & Wood also surveyed in those straits, and there are both 
a bay and an island named San Juan there. But none is given on 
late maps along the west coast of the peninsula, though two ‘* San 
Juans”’ are put down as on the gulf shore, one distinguished as a 
bay, about lat. 26° 20’, the other at a point of Jand in jal. 28° 25. 
and a third one, a camp station, near lat. 28°, twenty miles inland, 
all visited by W. M. Gabb. 
There is also a San Juanico on west coast, lat. 26° 12’, where 
Gabb collected marine shells (only ?) as given in a catalogue printed 
in the Proc. Cal. Acad, Sci., series i, vol. v, 1875. Even this was 
confounded by Stearns with San Juan Bay, and it is left uncertain 
at which place the marine shells were collected, though Gabb in 
the report before mentioned. states that he collected some at San 
Juanico, one of the places at which he crossed the peninsula. 
The well-known Spanish custom of distinguishing the patron saint 
of a locality by a surname taken from some local incident, leads to 
the inference that the one above named was so entitled from either 
the word fuco (seaweed) or fuego (fire), in either case mis-spelled by 
Forbes. Then the fact that the two Jand shells are only known to 
exist together between lats. 29° 30’ and 30°, the most arid and 
rocky region on the west coast, suggests that a landing was made- 
