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the geographical range and means of distribution of shells. San 

 Diego soc. nat. hist. tr. 1:85-113 (1911). 



In this last named paper are described the following: 



2238 Murex carpenteri tremperi 



Newport, Cal. 



2239 Ocinebra stearnsi 

 Monterey, Cal. 



2240 Helix loricata sonomaensis 



Healdsburgh, Sonoma Co., Cal. 



2241 Tonites wascoensis 

 Wasco Co., Oregon. 



2242 Helix walkeriana 



San Luis Obispo, Cal., with the next. 



2243 Variety Morroensis 



2244 Circinaria kelseyi 



San Mateo and San Luis Obispo counties, Cal. 



2245 Helix avalonensis 



A variety of the strigosa group. Catalina Island, Cal. 



2246 Berry, S. S.: 



Note on the occurrence of a giant squid off the California 

 coast. Nautilus 25:117. Records a specimen 30 feet across float- 

 ing in Monterey bay, Cal., not Dosidicus gigas. 



2247 Dosidicus gigas D'Orbigny. 



This attains a length of 4 or 5 feet, and frequents the waters 

 off the Californian shores as far north as Monterey, Cal. 

 Synonymy: — Ommastrephes gigas D'Orbigny. 



2248 yEsopus goforthi Dall. 



Named in honor of W. C. Goforth, who is supposed to have 

 collected it at Monterey, Cal. 



"Shell smooth, slender, elongate, with inconspicuous sutures 

 and about 8 whorls; nucleus defective, smooth; subsequent whorls 

 gradually increasing, moderately convex; color greenish-waxen 

 with flarnmules of dark chestnut so arranged on the last whorl 

 as to form 2 irregular bands, one above and the other below the 

 periphery, which also show in the interior of the aperture and on 

 the base of the pillar; the paler portion of the surface is also 

 irregularly mottled with opaque whitish blotches Aperture short, 

 rather wide; the outer lip simple, sharp, smooth within; body and 

 pillar smooth, with a thin wash of callus; canal short, wide, not 

 recurved. Length of shell 13, of last whorl 6, of aperture 4, max. 

 diam. of shell 3.3." — Dall, Nautilus 25:127. 



2249A Genus Grippina Dall. 



"Shell slightly inequivalve, donaciform, small, with a well- 

 marked, rounded, ascending pallial sinus; right valve receiving 

 the dorsal edges of the left in grooves beneath its own dorsal 

 margins; cardinal teeth 2, large, subequal, prominent, horizon- 

 tally produced and fitting under the beak of the left valve; resil- 

 ium strong, compressed, situated between the 2 cardinals attached 

 under the beak of the left valve, and having on its ventral sur- 

 face a thin calcareous coating or ossiculum." — Dall, Nautilus 25: 

 128. Allied to Corbula. Type: — 



2249 Grippina californica Dall. 



"Shell minute, subtrigonal, whitish, solid for its size, finely 

 concentrically sculptured; beaks moderately elevated, smooth; 

 inner margins of the valves smooth, the left valve with no hinge- 

 plate; a narrow lanceolate lunule and subequal, similar escutch- 



