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northward to Finmark. In Asia, according to Sclirenck, it reaches Yesso 

 and the Tartarian coast. "Mexico" is quoted, ex B. M. tablet, by Jef- 

 freys; of course due to ballast or some mixture of specimens or labels. 

 North of the Pribilofl* group, in Bering Sea, it appears to be the sole 

 form of the genus. 



C. testudinalis var. patina. 



Acmwa patina Esch. Eathke, 1. c. p. 19, pi. xxiv, f. 7-8, 1833. 



C. patina var. nomialis sive j)iniadiim (Gld.) Dall, 1. c. p. 247, pi. 14, f. 4, 1871. 



Tectura patina Martens, 1. c. p. 9.3, pi. 3, f. 7-8, 1872. 



Hab. — Aleutian Islantls, eastward and southward on the Alaskan side 

 to San Diego, California. Six fathoms to high- water mark; usually 

 between tides. 



The characters assigned to patina by most naturalists are those of 

 southern specimens (which were described as Patella pintadina by 

 Gould), nineteen-twentieths of the specimens in museums having come 

 from California. 



In northern waters these distinctions are more or less obsolete, but 

 on a comparison of Californian with Massachusetts Bay specimens it is 

 very easy to draw the line between them, and this holds good for indi- 

 viduals as far as the Aleutians, but not for the generality. 



C. testudinalis var. alveus. 



Hah. — Sitka northward and elsewhere with the typical form in At- 

 lantic seas, a variety formed the residence of the individual on a narrow 

 frond of seaweed or Zostcra. Tectura alveus of authors. 



C. testudinalis var. Cumiugii. 



Patella Cumingii Reovo; Dall, 1. c. p. 248. 

 Hah. — From the Pribiloff Islands southward with var. patina. Com- 

 monest toward Cook's Inlet, rare at the northern extreme of range and 

 southward of Vancouver Island. Usually near low- water mark, and 

 most frequently in isolated rocks washed by the surf. 



C. testudinalis var. ochracea. 



Dall, 1. c. as var. patina;, p. 249, pi. 17, f. 35. 



*Hitherto found chiefly in California, but reported from Vancouver 

 Island by Hepburn ; rare. 



My largest specimen of var. patina is two and three-quarters inches 

 long; another is an inch high. Every imaginable fluctuation in color, 

 elevation, smoothness or striation, width in proportion to length, «&c., 

 may be found somewhere in tlie series before me. Yet, after uniting 

 patina to the older form, there is a certain fades which distinguishes the 

 species from any other with tolerable readiness. It is the commonest 

 of all the species in Alaska and over the whole northwest coast of 

 America. 



