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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL. 53. 



FOSSILS. 



UPPEE SAN PEDRO SEBIE3. 



10. 



34. 



■8.. 



1.. 



Arnold 



do 



U.S.N.M.. 



Arnold 



Stephens.. 

 1... U.S.N.M.. 



6. 

 1. 

 3. 

 3. 

 18. 



U.S.N.M. 

 ArnoltL.. 

 U.S.N.M. 

 ....do..., 



324223 



324219 

 324220 



324221 



324222 



Santa Monica Caflon 



do 



Santa Monica 



Lumber yard, San Pedro. 



do 



San Pedro 



Spanish Bight 



do 



do 



Station 7495 San Qncntin, 

 Lower California, from bed 

 on stratum of lava, west 

 side of bay. 



1 figured, pi. 36, 

 fig. 5. 



LOWER SAN PEDRO SERIES. 



U.S.N.M. 



Arnold... 



251313 



Dead Mans Island, Cal 



Sand Rock, Dead Mans 

 Island. 



1 figured, pi. 36, 

 fig. 7, 



1 1 typo. 

 MELAI>IELLA (MELANELLA) LINEARIS Carpenter. 



Plate 36, fig. 4, 



Leiostraca linearis Carpenter, Cat. Maz. Shells, 1858, p. 440. 



Shell small, very slender, elongate-conic, yellowish-white, polished; 

 surface marked by exceedingly fine hnes of growth only. First four 

 whorls well rounded, separated by a strongly impressed suture, the 

 succeeding turns flattened, rather high, with a scarcely recognizable 

 suture. Periphery of the last whorl feebly angulated. Base rather 

 long, evenly curved. Aperture quite large, broadly oval; posterior 

 angle acute; outer hp decidedly protracted between the posterior 

 angle and the base; inner lip obhque, shghtly curved, revolute, the 



