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  MARINE 
  MOLLUSCA 
  DESCRTBED 
  BY 
  P. 
  P. 
  CARPENTER 
  

  

  descriptive 
  remarks, 
  but 
  both 
  are 
  lacking. 
  A 
  review 
  of 
  tlie 
  literature 
  will 
  reveal 
  that 
  the 
  

   problem 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  identity 
  of 
  O. 
  bactica 
  as 
  of 
  Carpenter 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  satisfactorily 
  settled. 
  

   With 
  lack 
  of 
  pertinent 
  original 
  data 
  the 
  problem 
  will 
  not 
  be 
  settled 
  from 
  a 
  Carpenter 
  source. 
  

   G. 
  L. 
  Wilkins 
  (Oct. 
  17, 
  1950, 
  personal 
  communication) 
  kindly 
  reported 
  on 
  the 
  material 
  

   of 
  the 
  species 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  (Natural 
  History) 
  as 
  follows: 
  

  

  "We 
  have 
  two 
  sets, 
  one 
  of 
  3 
  from 
  Vancouver 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  4 
  from 
  San 
  Pedro 
  but 
  none 
  of 
  

   them 
  compare 
  with 
  Sowerby's 
  figure. 
  All 
  Mus. 
  Cuming." 
  

  

  There 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  Gould 
  Collection, 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  Museum, 
  Gould 
  Collection 
  A6350, 
  

   labelled 
  type^"*^, 
  8 
  specimens 
  of 
  O. 
  bactica 
  Carpenter 
  They 
  are 
  all 
  worn 
  individuals. 
  Three 
  

   retain 
  faint 
  wavy 
  colored 
  lines. 
  W"ith 
  the 
  specimens 
  is 
  a 
  printed 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  

   label 
  of 
  "Olivella 
  baetica 
  Cpr. 
  = 
  O. 
  i>etioIita, 
  Gld. 
  (non 
  Duel.) 
  Hab. 
  Vancouver 
  — 
  CaHfornia." 
  

   This 
  label 
  is 
  the 
  standard 
  printed 
  form 
  which 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  used 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  

   that 
  Carpenter 
  was 
  working 
  for 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  in 
  making 
  up 
  duplicate 
  collections 
  for 
  dis- 
  

   tribution. 
  Such 
  labels 
  are 
  familiar 
  to 
  anyone 
  who 
  has 
  examined 
  collections 
  in 
  various 
  museums 
  

   which 
  received 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  in 
  the 
  late 
  1860's 
  and 
  1870's. 
  There 
  is 
  then 
  

   nothing 
  to 
  indicate 
  that 
  these 
  8 
  shells 
  were 
  types. 
  Gould's 
  personal 
  number 
  (A6350) 
  on 
  them 
  

   may 
  mean 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  specimens 
  which 
  Gould 
  identified 
  as 
  pctiolita, 
  which 
  Carpenter 
  

   stated 
  (1864b, 
  p. 
  537) 
  was 
  not 
  the 
  O. 
  petiolifa 
  of 
  Duclos 
  (1844, 
  p. 
  5). 
  They 
  do 
  not 
  bear 
  an 
  

   exact 
  locality. 
  Therefore, 
  so 
  far 
  they 
  do 
  not 
  add 
  any 
  scientific 
  information 
  to 
  the 
  dilemma. 
  

   The 
  specimens 
  are 
  apparently 
  those 
  identified 
  as 
  O. 
  baetica 
  Carpenter 
  and 
  figured 
  by 
  Dall, 
  

   Oldroyd 
  and 
  others. 
  Two 
  are 
  figured 
  herein 
  (pi. 
  24, 
  figs. 
  6-8). 
  

  

  Marrat 
  (1871, 
  p. 
  35, 
  pi. 
  350, 
  figs. 
  409, 
  410; 
  Tryon, 
  1883, 
  pi. 
  17, 
  figs. 
  28, 
  29) 
  was 
  the 
  

   first 
  to 
  use 
  Carpenter's 
  name 
  with 
  a 
  description, 
  figures, 
  and 
  a 
  type 
  locality. 
  Marrat's 
  

   (Sowerby) 
  figures 
  were 
  copied 
  by 
  Tryon 
  (1883). 
  Copies 
  of 
  Marrat's 
  figures 
  and 
  description 
  

   are 
  included 
  herein. 
  The 
  writer, 
  therefore, 
  credits 
  O. 
  baetica 
  to 
  Marrat. 
  This 
  does 
  not 
  ap- 
  

   parently 
  upset 
  the 
  usual 
  interpretation 
  of 
  O. 
  baetica, 
  and 
  by 
  giving 
  the 
  name 
  a 
  legitimate 
  

   parent, 
  a 
  definite 
  type 
  locality, 
  description, 
  and 
  figures 
  are 
  thereby 
  gained. 
  Tryon's 
  sugges- 
  

   tion 
  that 
  Marrat's 
  O. 
  nota 
  (1871, 
  pi. 
  351, 
  fig. 
  428) 
  from 
  \'ancouver 
  Island 
  might 
  be 
  

   referred 
  to 
  O. 
  bactica 
  looks 
  reasonable. 
  It 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  same 
  sort 
  of 
  shell 
  that 
  Dall 
  

   figured 
  for 
  O. 
  baetica. 
  

  

  "182. 
  BAETICA 
  (f. 
  409, 
  410), 
  Carpenter; 
  petiolita, 
  Cow/J.-Quam 
  O. 
  alectona 
  gracili- 
  

   usculior, 
  coloribus 
  magis 
  nebulatis 
  variegata 
  ; 
  balteo 
  castaneo, 
  fasciato. 
  — 
  The 
  colours 
  with 
  

   which 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  specimens 
  are 
  variegated 
  are 
  more 
  clouded, 
  and 
  the 
  lines 
  more 
  spread 
  into 
  

   patches 
  than 
  in 
  Duclos' 
  figure 
  of 
  O. 
  alectona, 
  but 
  the 
  difference 
  seems 
  hardly 
  essential. 
  — 
  ED. 
  

   [Sowerby]." 
  [Marrat 
  in 
  Sowerby] 
  

  

  Type. 
  — 
  "O 
  baetica" 
  Carpenter, 
  not 
  found.^o' 
  Holotype, 
  O. 
  nota 
  Alarrat, 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  

   Museum 
  (Natural 
  History), 
  Department 
  of 
  Zoology 
  (G. 
  L. 
  Wilkins, 
  Oct. 
  17, 
  1950, 
  per- 
  

   sonal 
  communication). 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  Vancouver 
  Island, 
  British 
  Columbia, 
  includes 
  Straits 
  of 
  Juan 
  de 
  Fuca 
  

   (type); 
  Kodiak 
  Island, 
  Alaska, 
  to 
  Cape 
  San 
  Lucas, 
  Lower 
  California 
  (Dall) 
  

  

  Olivella 
  biplicata 
  Sowerby 
  

   "Olivella 
  glandinaria 
  (Nutt.) 
  MS." 
  Carpenter 
  

  

  Olivella 
  glandinaria 
  Nutt. 
  Carpenter, 
  1856, 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  London, 
  Proc, 
  p. 
  227; 
  1857, 
  Rept. 
  

   Brit. 
  Assoc. 
  Adv. 
  Aci. 
  1856, 
  p. 
  201, 
  339; 
  1864b, 
  p. 
  527, 
  661 
  ; 
  Reprint, 
  1872, 
  p. 
  13, 
  147 
  

  

  Cari>enter 
  (1856) 
  described 
  an 
  Olivella 
  from 
  "upper 
  California" 
  wliich 
  Nuttall 
  had 
  

   named 
  in 
  manuscript 
  Glandinaria 
  Calijornica. 
  Carpenter 
  (1864) 
  identified 
  the 
  species 
  as 
  

   conspecific 
  with 
  O. 
  biplicata, 
  where 
  it 
  continues 
  to 
  be 
  assigned. 
  

  

  1°^ 
  List 
  of 
  Gould 
  types 
  of 
  Mollusca 
  in 
  tiie 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Museum, 
  27th 
  Ann. 
  

   Rept. 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  Mus., 
  1874, 
  p. 
  47. 
  Through 
  the 
  courtesy 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Carl 
  Guthe, 
  the 
  

   specimens 
  were 
  loaned 
  to 
  the 
  author 
  for 
  photographing. 
  The 
  original 
  spelling 
  of 
  the 
  specific 
  

   name 
  was 
  "baetica" 
  not 
  "boetica." 
  

  

  107 
  The 
  type 
  is 
  not 
  in 
  the 
  Academy 
  of 
  Natural 
  Sciences 
  at 
  Philadelpina, 
  as 
  reixjrted 
  by 
  

   Oldroyd 
  (1927). 
  

  

  