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polish or villosity; lines of growth distinct, spiral sculpture of 

 fine stria; with wider flattish interspaces, alternately coarser on 

 the base; suture deep, the whorl below it often obscurely puckered 

 near the suture; canal rather short, wide, and recurved. Alt. 70, 

 diam. mm. 



1389 Volutopsius trophonius Dall. 



South of Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea, in 81 fms. 

 1890 Volutopsius kobelti Dall. 



Pribiloff Islands, Bering Sea, and Nunivak Island. 



Synonymy: — ?Tritonium behringii Midd. — Neptunea behringii 

 Kobelt. — Strombella beringi Dail. 



1391 Volutopsius castaneus Mreerch. 



Synonymy: — Neptunea castanea Moerch. — Neptunea badia 

 Moerch. — Strombella castanea Dall. 



Aleutian Islands and eastward to Kadiak, in shallow water. 



1392 Volutopsius attenuatus Dall. 



Synonymy: — Volutopsis attenuata Dall. — Strombella atten- 

 uata Dall. 



Bering Sea and adjacent Arctic waters. 



1393 Volutopsius regularis Dall. 



Synonymy. — Volutopsis berengi var. regularis Dall. — Strom- 

 bella regularis Dall. 



Aleutian and Shumagin Islands, Alaska, rare. 



1394 Beringius crebricostatus Dall. 

 Synonymy: — Chrysodomus crebricostatus Dall. 

 Unalaska, Aleutians, in 100 fms. (Dall). 



1395 Beringius? kennicottii Dall. 



Synonymy: — Buccinium kennicottii Dall.: — Chrysodomus 

 kennicottii Dall. — Neptunea behringi Kobelt. 

 Kadiak Islands, Alaska. 



1396 Liomesus Nux Dall. 

 Synonymy: — Buccinopsis nux Kobelt. 



East shore of Nagai Island, Shumagins, and at Unalaska in 15 

 fathoms. 



1397 Liomesus canaliculars Dall. 

 Synonymy: — Buccinopsis canaliculata Dall. 

 North end of Nunivak Island, Bering Sea (Dall). 



1398 Liomesus ooides Middendorf. 



Tugar basin, Okhosk Sea (Midd.). — Bering Strait (Stimpson). 

 Synonymy: — Tritonium ooides Midd. — T. ovoides Midd. — 

 Buccinium ovoides Kobelt. 



1399 Astyris aurantiaca Dall, Am J Con 7:115 (1871), t 15 f 13. 

 Monterey, Cal., at low tide (Dall). 



Color varies from orange yellow to brown or yellow with zig- 

 zag brown markings; generally subtranslucent. 



1400 Murex (Pteropurpura) Carpenteri Dall. 



Synonymy: — Pteronotus carpenteri Dall, Nautilus 12:148 

 (1899). 



Farallones Islands, Cal., south to vicinity of San Diego, Cal., 

 in 15-60 fms. 



Shell of a somewhat livid pale brown, pinkish toward apex, 

 white around aperture; surface smooth (except of the nuclean 

 whorls and anterior faces of the varices). 



1401 Murex (Pteropurpura) petri Dall, Nautilus 14:37 (1900). 

 San Pedro, Cal., in about 50 fms. (Oldroyd). 

 Yellowish-white, curved with finely imbricated spiral threads, 



of which about every fourth one is slightly larger; aperture white, 

 varices distally curved. 



