72 THE NAUTILUS. 



Besides dredging comes the collecting of fine Lunatia 

 Fissiiridea agpersa, Acmceapelta var. hybrida, Acmcea pelta var. nacel- 

 loides, Diplodonia orbella and nests; Lacuna carinata and two finds 

 of over 150 Terebratella transversa. Then dead specimens, in good 

 condition, of Cadulus fusiformis, Parthenia armata, Rissoina in- 

 frequens, Felania sericata, with quantities of rich drift, not yet 

 sorted, which doubtless contains many rare specimens new to my 

 cabinet. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



MR. CHARLES W. JOHNSTON left Philadelphia, September 24, for 

 an extended geological trip in the Eocene regions of Louisiana and 

 Texas. 



DR. WM. H. DALL has published a resume of the results of his 

 systematic studies on Mactridct and Mesodesmatidce in the last num- 

 ber of the Proc. Malacological Society of London. 



PROF. GILBERT D. HARRIS has been spending some time in 

 Philadelphia studying and remounting Lea's type collection of 

 Claiborne Eocene fossils. 



ACANTHOCHITES MATTHEWSI Bednall & Pilsbry, described in THE 

 NAUTILUS for February, 1894, from "South Australia," was found 

 by me in St. Vincent's Gulf at Giles' Point, south Yorke's Penin- 

 sula, at an unusually low tide. E. H. filatlhcws, 



EPIPHRAGMOPHORA CALIFORNIENSIS VAR. CONTRACOSTJE. 

 Smaller than var. diabloensis, but of the same depressed form ; light 

 yellowish straw-colored, with or without a dark band ; surface 

 rudely striate and cut -by irregular spirals into small granules ; not 

 malleated or slightly so. Whorls 5 ; outer lip thickened, hardly 

 expanded, white, basal lip expanded and a trifle impinging on um- 

 bilicus, which is deep and rather widely open, somewhat as in Poly- 

 gyra Jciawaensis. Locality, Byron Hot Springs, Contra Costa Co., 

 California. Pilsbry. 



EPIPHRAGMOPHORA REMONDI Tryon. This species is, as Cooper 

 and von Martens have lately recognized, quite distinct from carpen- 

 teri. Ancey's H. verrilli (Conch. Exch.) is a synonyn of Tryou's 

 species, Ancey having been misled by the misidentification of 

 Remondi, which has prevailed since the publication by Gabb of his 

 Lower California finds. Pilsbry. 



