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become feeble and on the last whorl entirely absent; aperture 

 rounded with a slight angulosity at the anterior end of the pillar lip, 

 forming a strong wrinkled fasciole behind that lip; there is no basal 

 disk or ring; height, 10; diameter, 4.5 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 

 217878. 



Type-locality. — ^Magdalena Bay, Lower California; collected by C. R. 

 Orcutt. 



EPITONIUM (ASPEROSCALA) CANNA. new species. 



Shell small, white, shadhig to yellowish on the spire, with six 

 whorls excluding the (lost) nucleus, imperforate, with a deep suture 

 and six strong varices, continuous up the spire which they about 

 one-fourth encircle; the varices are concentrically striated on the 

 anterior face, are very solid, and have no angulation at the shoulder; 

 spiral sculpture of on the base of the last v/horl numerous minute 

 sharp threads with hitercalary fine striae occupying the wider inter- 

 spaces; this sculpture becomes obsolete at or behmd the periphery; 

 there is no basal cord or disk; height, 9; maximum diameter, 5 mm^ 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 218099. 



Ti/pe-locality. —Miigdalena Bay, Lower California; collected by C. R. 

 Orcutt. 



EPITONIUM (NITIDOSCALA) BARBAEINUM, new spefies. 



Shell small, imperforate, v/hite, with 11 varices contuiuous up the 

 spire which they one-third encircle; anterior surface of the varices 

 flattish, smooth; the shoulder is not angular or spinose; there are 

 six whorls exclusive of the (lost) nucleus; suture deep; base rounded 

 without a basal cord or disk; aperture subovate, the inner lip thick- 

 ened; height of shell, 19; of last whorl, 7.5; of aperture, 4; diameter, 

 6.5 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 46229. 



Type-locality. — San Diego, California, Steams collection. 



EPITONUIM (NITIDOSCALA) PHANIUM, new speiies. 



Shell small, white with a ficsh-coiored upper spire, with seven or 

 eight nearly vertical continuous varices, and somewhat more than 

 eight whorls, including a smooth white nucleus of tv/o whorls; 

 suture distinct, deep; axis imperforate; surface smooth except for 

 faint incremental lines, the varices smooth without angles or spines; 

 base rounded with no basal disk or cord; aperture oval, simple; 

 height of shell, 8; of last whprl, 4; of aperture, 1.5; diameter, 3 mm. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 218095. 



Type-locality. --MsigiMenh Bay, Lower California; collected by 

 C. R. Orcutt. 



EPITONIUM (NITIDOSCALA) CALLIPEPLUM, new species. 



Shell small, lilac color on the spire, pahng into white on the last 

 whorl, with about eight whorls exclusive of the (lost) nucleus, imper- 



