157 



living specimens now known; one measures 15 mm. in major 

 diameter and nearly 10 mm. in height." — Dall, Phila ac pr 1900: 

 103. 



2223 Epiphragmophora levis 



Under Helix. — "Shell perforate, globose, thin, smooth, oblique- 

 ly striate, obsoletely granulated, white, varied with regular series 

 of spots or bands of horn-color; spire short, rather acute; whorls 

 5, scarcely convex, the last inflated; aperture roundly lunar, with- 

 in somewhat yellow; peristome acute, somewhat thickened with- 

 in, its columellar portion dilated above, arched and reflected, al- 

 most covering the perforation. Greater diam. 16, lesser 14; 

 height 13 mill. 



"Var. b. The columellar portion of the peristome with a sin- 

 gle obtuse, tooth-like callosity. 



"Helix levis, Pfeiffer Mon Hel Viv 1:54; 3:128; Zeits f Mai 

 1845, 2:152; in Chemnitz ed 2, 1:249, t 36 f 16, 17 (1846). — 

 Reeve Con Icon 1214. — W. G. Binney Terr Moll, 4:18t76fl0. 



"Polymita levis, Tryon, Am V Conch 2:320 t 5 f 21? (1866). 



"Columbia river. Dr. Newcomb doubts its being a Californian 

 or Oregon species." — B 180 f 316. Figure is marked 'var.' 



"Rosalia bay, mainland of Lower California, in N. lat. 28 de- 

 grees, 30 min., Anthony 1896. Erroneously referred to the Co- 

 lumbia river by Pfeiffer." — Dall Phila ac pr 1900, 100. 



2224 Epiphragmophora Pandora? 



Under Helix. — "Shell imperforate, globose-conic, rather solid, 

 reddish above, violet on the apex, ashy below, bound with numer- 

 ous, interrupted, light blotches and lines; whorls five, rounded, 

 suture impressed; aperture subcircular; peristome narrowly re- 

 flected, white, its ends approaching; throat bluish; columella 

 thickened, rounded. Greater diameter 17, lesser 16; height 14 

 mm. 



"Helix pandora?, Forbes, Zool soc pr 1850, 55 t 9 f 3 a, b. — 

 Con Icon 671. — Pfeiffer Mon Hel Viv 3:127; in Chemnitz ed 2, 

 3:467 t 156 f 17, 18 (1853). — Gould Ter Moll 3:15. — W. G. Bin- 

 ney Terr Moll 4:18 t 76 f 8. 



"Helix damascenus, Gould, Boston Soc Nat Hist pr 6:11 (O 

 1856). 



"Polymita pandora?, Tryon, Am J Conch 2:320 t 6 f 8 (1866). 



"Margarita Bay, Lower California. The specimen figured 

 wants the characteristic revolving lines and blotches." — B-B 179- 

 180 f 315. 



Stearns in N Y ac annals 2:136 says he regards "H. areo- 

 lata, pandorae, Veatchii and levis as varieties of a single species." 

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2225 Dall, William Healey; An index to the Museum Boltenian- 

 um. Washington, 1915. 64 p. 



The catalog of Dr. J. F. Bolten's collection was first published 

 in 1798, and under the law of priority, many of his names are the 

 first binomials applied to the species of shells they refer to. 

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2226 Berry, S. Stillman: The Cephalopoda of the Hawaiian 

 Islands. From U. S. bureau of fisheries bulletin. 32:257-362, 



pi 45-55 (1912). 



2227 Dall, William Healey: A monograph of the molluscan 

 fauna of the Orthaulax pugnax zone of the Oligocene of Tam- 

 pa, Florida. U. S. Nat'l Mus. bull. 93. Wash. 1915. 173 p. 



