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Unfortunately Gabb nowhere records any notes on other species, 

 except eight, as quoted in this paper. 



15. H. DURANTI Newcomb, 1864 (var. ccslata Mazyck). Santa 

 Barbara Island, J. G. C. (types). Northern race from Healdsburg, 

 38° 38', Calif., to Sta. Barbara, Hemphill. The var. thence south 

 to San Tomas, lat. 31° 35", Yates, Hemphill. 



16. H. KELLETTil, Forbes, 1850. "California," (Santa Bar- 

 bara),? Kellett. "San Juan del Fuaco," (Forbes). This San Juan 

 having been proved to be neither the Straits of De Fuca, nor San Juan 

 Capistrano, southern California, lat. 33° 30' (northern limit of this 

 .shell), is usually considered as the port on the east coast, lat. 26° 

 20', visited by Lt. Greene, who did not find this shell there (neither 

 did Gabb). Forbes states that this and H. pandorce were obtained 

 on the west coast, probably between " San Diego and Magdalena 

 Bay," lat. 24° 32'. (Carpenter, Rept. on Moll, of West Amer., 

 1856, p. 239.) Yet it has been generally confounded with the Straits 

 of Juan de Fuca (an explorer, who made no claim to be a saint). 

 Kellett & Wood also surveyed in those straits, and there are botli 

 a bay and an island named San Juan there. But none is given on 

 late maps along the west coast of the peninsula, though two " San 

 Juans " are put down as on the gulf shore, one distinguished as a 

 bay, about lat. 26° 20', the other at a point of land in lat. 28° 25', 

 and a third one, a camp station, near lat. 28°, twenty miles inland, 

 all visited by W. M. Gabb. 



There is also a San Juanico on west coast, lat. 26° 12', where 

 Gabb collected marine shells (only ?) as given in a catalogue printed 

 in the Proc. Cal. Acad, Sci., series i, vol. v, 1875. Even this was 

 confounded by Stearns with San Juan Bay, and it is left uncertain 

 at which place the marine shells were collected, though Gabb in 

 the report before mentioned, states that he collected some at San 

 Juanico, one of the places at which he crossed the peninsula. 



The well-known Spanish custom of distinguishing the patron saint 

 of a locality by a surname taken from some local incident, leads to 

 the inference that the one above named was so entitled from either 

 the word fuco (seaweed) orfuego (fire), in either case mis-spelled by 

 Forbes. Then the fact that the two land shells are only known to 

 exist together between lats. 29° 30' and 30°, the most arid and 

 rocky region on the west coast, suggests that a landing was made 



