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San Diego. The Japanese are the men employed as divers. In 

 1900 the diving armor with air pumps came into use. Before that 

 the product from the Los Angeles county abalone fishery was in one 

 year, 1899, " GO, 000 pounds of dried abalones and 30,000 pounds of 

 shells of $7,800 value." 1 



It is said that the Chinese and Japanese are the consumers of this 

 white, boneless mollusk (the foot of the animal is the part used, and 

 this is white, no matter what the color of the shell may be); but I 

 have known of persons eating this shell-fish not previously dried 

 as prepared for shipping perfectly unconscious that the name given 

 to the soup, or fritters, masked the real one. Cans of daintily pre- 

 pared abalones, with another name, are among grocery supplies and 

 the contents of a can with butter, milk, salt and pepper, all heated 

 in a chafing-dish, is odorous and tender enough to please the palate 

 of any fish consumer. 



Hollywood, Los Angeles, Cat., November 9, 1906. 



NEW PISIDIA. 



BY V. STERKI. 



Pis. neglectum, n. sp. Mussel of small size, slightly to scarcely 

 oblique, rather rounded in outlines, moderately to rather well in- 

 flated ; superior margin slightly curved or nearly straight, with more 

 or less marked angles where passing into the anterior and posterior, 

 supero-anterior slope generally marked, slightly curved, anterior end 

 rounded angular, posterior part subtruncate, inferior margin moder- 

 ately curved ; beaks slightly posterior, rather narrow, rounded or 

 somewhat flattened on top, moderately projecting over the superior 

 margin ; surface with fine, subregular to irregular, crowded, con- 

 centric striae, microscopically rugulose, dullish or somewhat shining; 

 over the beaks there are much finer concentric strife to the center, 

 and the surface is not rngulose, more shining; color light to yellow- 

 ish horn to whitish, shell translucent to rather opaque, rather thin; 

 hinge rather slight, well formed, plate comparatively broad ; right 

 cardinal tooth rather short, strongly curved, not reaching the lower 



. Kept. Fish Commission, 1901. 



