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241. Murex (Pterorhytis) foliatus iiartijn. 



Cerostoma foliaiufn Martvn, Univ. Conch., No. 66, PI. XXIV, fig. i, 1784. Cpr., Brit. Assn. 



Rept, 1863, p. 663. Keep, Common Sea Shells, PI. XIV, fig. 5, 1881; West Coast 



Shells, p. 27, 1892. 

 Murex foliatus Mart., Tryon, Man. Conch., Vol. II, p. 113, PI. XXXIV, figs. 370, 371, 373, 1880. 

 Pterorhytis foliahis Mart., Cooper, Bull. No. 4, Cal. St. Min. Bureau, Part 3, 1894, p. 24. 



Shell small, broadly fusiform, with extended varices; spire elevated, subacute; whorls three 

 to four; varices three, widely expanded, foliated on anterior side; one prominent node on convex 

 surface of whorl between each set of varices; aperture subovate, with smooth outer and inner lip; 

 canal long, narrow, expanding anteriorly, generally covered by overgrowing lips. 



Dimensiotis. — Long. 35 mm.; lat. 21 mm.; body-whorl 26.5 mm.; aperture 21 mm.; 

 canal 10 mm. 



Distinguislmble by the wing-like, foliated varices. The specimen tleseribed 

 was too poor to figure. 



Rare in the upper San Pedro series of San Pedro; one specimen found. 



Living. — Vancouver to Oregon (Carpenter): Sitka to Santa Barbara; Asia 

 (Cooper). 



Pleistocene. — San Pedro (Arnold): Puget Sound; San Diego; Santa Barbara 

 Islands (Carpenter): San Joaquin Bay, Orange County (Bowers). 



242. Murex (Pterorhytis) nuttalli Conrad. 



Cerostoma nuttalli Con., Jour. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. VII, 1837, p. 264, PL XX, fig. 22. Cpr., 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1856, p. 229; Brit. Assn. Rept., 1863, p. 663. Tryon, Struct, and Syst. 

 Conch., Vol. II, p. 105, PL XLIII, fig. 8, 1883. Cooper, 7th Ann. Rept. Cal. St. Min., 

 1888, p. 233. Keep, West Coast Shells, p. 26, fig. 8, 1892. 



Pterorhytis nuttalli CoN., Williamson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XV, 1892, p. 215. 



Shell of medium size, heavy, thick; spire elevated, subacute; whorls four, convex, each with 

 three prominent varices, which are rather smooth behind, but showing their lamellar structure in 

 front; each varix is connected with the analogous vari.x on the preceding whorl, but the varices being 

 slightly less than one-third of a revolution apart cause the radiating ridges formed by the connected 

 varices to be spirally twisted; intervarical spaces prominently spirally ribbed, the ribs extending on 

 to the backs of the varices; seven or eight prominent spiral ribs on the body-whorls; aperture ellip- 

 tical; outer lip with eight or nine internal teeth, each corresponding to one of the external sulcations 

 of the body-whorl; sometimes with prominent tooth near anterior portion of outer lip; inner lip 

 smooth; canal rather short, covered; lower portion of columella expanded, rough, subpunctate. 



Dimensions. — Long. 65 mm.; lat. 34 mm.; body-whorl 50mm.; aperture 25 mm.; canal 

 14 mm. 



This species may be only a variety of P. foliatus Mart. It is distinguishable 

 from the latter species by the greater prominence of its spiral sculpture, and it.':^ 

 lower varices. 



Rare in upper San Pedro series at Deadman Island and Los Cerritos. 



Living. — Paulinas Bay to San Diego (Cooper). 

 Pleistocene. — San Pedro (Arnold): San Diego (Cooper). 



