TURRIDAE 181 



The shells are of many and varied forms; usually fusiform with 

 elongate spire, straight anterior canal and posterior notch or slit. 

 The strongest sculpture is longitudinal. Most of its genera are oper- 

 culate. 



Genus FENDIOREA Bartsch, 1934 

 Fenimorea moserP^^ Dall PI. 38, fig. 259 



Max. alt., 30; body whorl, 15.5; max. diam., 10 mm. Shell 

 elongate-turreted, rather thick; color varies from rose-pink to a 

 waxy-cream color; thin yellowish epidermis; about 10 whorls crossed 

 by 11 axial ribs; ribs slightly keeled and retractively curved above 

 periphery of whorl, constricted and drawn together at base of body 

 whorl; revolving sculpture of fine threads from apex to base; fine 

 incremental Imes; aperture two millimeters in diameter; posterior 

 sinus round, broad, subsutural; anterior canal short, straight; col- 

 umella white, strong reflected callus below; operculum corneous, 

 amber color, apical nucleus. 



Dredged in six fathoms off Little Carlos Pass and Sanibel Island, 

 Florida. 



Genus CERODRILLIA Bartsch and Rehder, 1939 

 Cerodrillia^ss clappi Bartsch and Rehder PI. 38, fig. 260 



Alt., 11.8 mm.; greatest diam., 4.5 mm. Shell smaller and more 

 slender than C. thea and C. perryae; elongate-turreted, waxy white 

 with a faint fawn-colored band "anterior to the broadest expansion 

 of the axial ribs", and a broader band at periphery of body whorl; 

 wide interspaces with faint spirals, and microscopic growth lines; 

 aperture oval, short anterior channel, hardly more than a deep 

 notch; edge of outer lip strongly convex with deep posterior sinus 

 and shallow anterior notch; a stout varix immediately posterior; 

 columella with fine, faint threads, heavy callus above; operculum 

 light amber color. 



Dredged in four to seven fathoms off Sanibel and Captiva 

 islands, Florida. 



332 Named for Lt. J. F. Moser, U.S. Navy, collector. 



333 Gr., keros, wax ; D., drillen, to bore. 



