THE NAUTILUS. 



VOL. XXII. AUGUST-SEPTEMBER, 19O8. No. 4-5. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON CALIFORNIAN MOLLU8KS. 



BY S. S. BERRY. 



A specimen of Cypraea spadicea Gray has recently been brought 

 to the writer's notice by Mrs. C. H. Fackenthall, of Pacific Grove, 

 who some years ago found it alive on Chinatown Point, Monterey 

 Bay. This extends the known range of the species many score of 

 miles beyond the most northern locality which has previously been 

 recorded. 



Mrs. Fackenthall also collected in March, 1907, over sixty speci- 

 mens of lanthina exigua Lam. where they had been washed ashore 

 near Point Pinos. This is a new locality for this species likewise. 



Another lanlhina, which is apparently the 1. globosa of Swainson, 

 and is new to the Californian fauna, was found in considerable num- 

 bers at Oceanside, Sari Diego county, by Mrs. T. E. N. Eaton and 

 Miss Grace Eaton in the summer of 1906. This species was found 

 in company with 1. exigua and another undetermined form of the same 

 genus (7. communist) cast up on the sandy beach, and for the most 



part still retained the animals. 



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In July, 1903, the writer made a small collection of fossils from 

 the pleistocene deposit which forms the cliff just west of the bath- 

 house at Santa Barbara, among which many of the species are of 

 interest because not included by Arnold in his lists l of the mollusks 

 of the Santa Barbara pleistocene. Such species are marked with 

 an asterisk. One or two forms are likewise entirely new to the 

 formation. 



1 Paleontology and Stratigraphy of San Pedro, p. 52 q. r. 



