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last turn, minute, well spaced, and granular on almost the whole 

 of the basal surface. Spiral sculpture wanting. Periostracum, 

 except for the papillae and numerous fine lines of growth, smooth, 

 thin, and lustrous. Shell white or very light ivory yellow, passing 

 to avellaneous on the spire; a narrow fawn band, about 0.7 mm. 

 wide encircling the shoulder, flanked both above and below by an 

 obscure whitish band of approximately the same width. 



Type Locality: "San Jacinto Mts., California" (Bryant). 

 Material has been examined as follows: 



No. of Specimens Locality Collector Where Deposited 



4 Warner's Hot Springs, F. W. Bryant Cal. Ac. Sci. 8.676A 



San Diego Co., Cal. 

 2 do F. W. Bryant Berry Coll. 4,767 



On a visit to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco 

 a year or two ago, it was a matter of great interest to discover among 

 the material acquired by the Academy from the collection of the 

 late Henry Hemphill, a small series of the little-known Epiphrag- 

 mophora harperi Bryant, evidently authentic since received from 

 Bryant himself. As the original description was only a short 

 notice of a few lines, and nothing further regarding the species was 

 ever published, I have ventured to redescribe it and to add figures 

 of the best of the Academy specimens. More important still it is 

 now possible to give Warner's Hot Springs as the locality, perhaps 

 even the original locality, where the species was found, Bryant 

 having obscurely recorded it as "San Jacinto Mts." Such des- 

 scriptions and records surely were better never published, as they 

 are sure to lead to misunderstandings and confusion, and much 

 laborious research and waste of time to unravel the tangle. If the 

 present specimens are truly originals, the present species can be 

 established as a typical Eremarionta, although the peculiarities of 

 the sculpture on the early whorls seem to have been pushed farther 

 than in any other of the described species. M. orcutti Bartsch, 

 however, is very close to this, and when better material of it can 

 be found, it may prove to be identical. M. xerophila is another 

 somewhat similar species, but is smaller, has a more lively colora- 

 tion, and the umbilicus is much narrower, besides there being- 

 manifest differences in the embryonic sculpture. 



