NO. 2295. NEW NORTH PACIFIC MOLLUSKS—DALL. 303 



low, thread-like ribs extending from the shoidder to the succeeding 

 suture, but more or less obsolete on the last whorl; spiral sculpture 

 of faint feeble striae on the fasciole, in front of the shoulder of 

 numerous close-set flattish small threads, extending uniformly to the 

 canal; anal sulcus shallow; outer lip slightly arcuate, inner lip 

 erased; piUar short, straight; canal hardly differentiated; height of 

 shell, 9; of last whorl, 7; diameter, 5 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. 

 No. 209257. 



Type-locality. — U. S. Fish Commission station 4538, off Pomt 

 Pinos Light, Monterey Bay, California, m 795 to 871 fathoms, sand. 



LORA GALGANA, new species. 



Shell white, under a yellowish periostracum, of six or more obtusely 

 shouldered whorls, the apex decorticated, the suture appressed; 

 axial sculpture on the earlier whorls of about 18 protractively oblique 

 rounded ribs, slightly angulate at the shoulder, feeble on the fasciole 

 and crossing the whorls except on the last whorl where they grad- 

 ually become obsolete; the whole surface is spirally sculptured with 

 fine close-set threads, here and there one a little more prominent 

 than the rest, others near the canal coarser; anal sulcus wide and 

 shallow; outer lip arcuate, inner lip erased; canal moderately long, 

 slightly recurved; height of shell, 15; of last whorl, 11; diameter, 

 6 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 214173. 



Type-locality. — ^U. S. Fish Commission station 3330, Bering Sea, 

 north of Unalaska in 351 fathoms, sand. 



LORA AMJATA, new species. 



Shell elevated, rugose, white under a pale yellow periostracum, 

 with six subtabulate v/horls, the nucleus decorticated, suture obscure, 

 closely appressed; spiral sculpture of an angle at the shoulder, 

 between v/hich and the suture are four or five close-set small equal 

 threads; iii front of the shoulder is a constriction beyond which are 

 about a dozen deep grooves with v/ider rounded interspaces which 

 are finely spirally striated; on the canal there are crowded small 

 threads; axial sculpture of about 15 short ribs extending from the 

 shoulder, which they nodulate, to the periphery only; aperture 

 narrow with a shallow anal sulcus; outer lip thiii, mner lip erased, 

 canal straight and short; height of shell, 15; of last v/horl, 10.5; of 

 aperture, 8; diameter, 7 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 214219. 



Type-locality. — Off Belkoffski, Alaska, in 15 to 75 fathoms, shelly 

 bottom; collected by Vv". H. DaU. 



LORA RASSINA, new species. 



Shell small, white, with a small (decorticated) nuclear v/horl and 

 five subsequent slightly shouldered v/horls; suture distinct, not 



