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each side. No veil. Gill-rows three- quarters as long as the foot, each 

 containiug- about forty branchiiie. 



(lu Lepidoradsia austmlis, the giU-rows were found to extend the 

 whole length of the foot, and to contain forty-seven branchice in each. 

 Mantle-edge plain, thin; muzzle i)lain, semicircular, without a veil; 

 the ovarian openings situated close ou either margin of the anus.) 



ACANTHOIDEA. 

 Genus NUTTALLINA Cpr. MS. 



Lorica elongata, valvis antice projectis; mucro posticus, elevatus; 

 laminpe acutiB, hieves, (nisi v. post.) elongatse; v. centrales bifissatoB; 

 sinus hand laminatus, planatus ; zona spinosa. 



From AcantJiopleura this genus differs in the sm.oothness of the sharp 

 teeth, in their great length and Eadsioid slitting ; in the thrown-back 

 mucro, which often projects beyond the margin ; in the throwing forward 

 of the rest of the shell, as in Katherina, and in the deep spongy flat 

 sinus which interrupts the sutural laminie. The name is given in honor 

 of the late Thomas I^^uttall, Esq., once professor of natural history at 

 Harvard College, and the original discoverer of the typical species, as 

 well as many others of the shells and plants of California. (Cpr.) 



Nuttallina scabra. 



Chiton scaber Reeve, Conch. Icoia. Mou. Chiton, pi. xvii, f. 103, 1847. 

 Chiton caJifornicus (Nutt. MS.) according to Carpenter. 

 Not Chiton calif ornicus (Nutt. MS.) according to Reeve. 

 Acanthoplcura scabra Cj)r. Suppl. Rep. Br. Assoc. 1863, p. 649. 



!N". t. mucrone postico, sed hand terminali, maxime trans marginem 

 posticum elevato; v. post. 7-8-, v. ant. 10-11-, centr. 2-fissatis; dent, 

 acutis, Icevibus, (nisi postice) prselongis, antice valde projectis; valvis 

 centralibus dent. post, minoribus; subgrundis parvis, hand sulcatis; 

 sinu altissimo, lato, plauato, spongioso, hand laminato; zona lata crassa; 

 spinis testaceis curtioribus densissime obsita. Lon. 3G, Lat. 10 mm. 



Hah. — Vancouver district, south to California, probably in the south- 

 ern islands of Alaska ,• at and above high-water mark, in crevices of the 

 rocks ; at Monterey abundant. 



This singular species, not yet obtained from Alaska, but which will 

 probably be found there, like some Litoriuas, seems habitually to prefer 

 positions where it can at most be reached by the spray in storms, on ex- 

 posed headlands, where the breeze comes in damp and cool from the sea. 

 The pointed valves overlap each other so much that when the creature is 

 curled up they project from the girdle, giving a pectinated outline, un- 

 usual in Chitons. The valves are almost always eroded, even the prom- 

 inent mucro is often hollowed out, and the sculi)ture can rarely be seen 

 except in young specimens. The color is grayish or brownish, with 

 whitish streaks ; the girdle has the aspect of dead brownish-black moss, 

 sometimes with ashy spots at the sutures. 



