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P. coMPTA Gould, 1857. PL 39, figs. 69-72. 



Small, pointed-oblong, somewhat solid, yellowish, pinkish or whit- 

 ish, more or less clouded longitudinally with purple, dull pink or 

 gray, marked with numerous narrow close revolving descending 

 lines of purple, pink or drab, sometimes conspicuously flammulate 

 below the sutures, and broadly transversely fasciate on base ; whorls 

 5-6, closely coiled above, with shallow sutures, the last more rapidly 

 descending, separated by a deep suture ; aperture usually less than 

 half the length of shell, very oblique, short ovate, inner margin 

 arcuate, umbilical region excavated and generally minutely perfo- 

 rate. Alt. 8-12 mill. 



California. 



Radula similar to that of P. pul/a, but with only 4 lateral teeth 

 on either side, by atrophy of the narrow outer one. Operculum 

 white, inside stained Avith blue above. 



Var. FULLOiDES Cpr. 



Somewhat similar to P. pulla; solid, compact, with shorter spire ; 

 suture distinct. 



Sta. Barbara ; Monterey ; Catalina Id. 



Var. ELATIOR Cpr. 



Very small, spire elongate, painted as in P. pulla; whorls sub- 

 planulate, suture scarcely impressed, columella lacunate. 



Sta. Barbara, Cal. 



Var. PUNCTATA Cpr. 



Similar to P. compta ; more elevated ; sutures impressed ; whorls 

 tumid, minutely punctate with brown ; columella lacunate. 



San Diego, Cal. 

 P. FORDiANA Pilsbry, 1888. PI. 40, fig. 5. 



Shell minute, long-ovate or conoid, composed of 5 convex whorls 

 separated by deep sutures ; aperture scarcely more than one-third 

 the length of shell, rotund oval, angled above; outer lip thin ; col- 

 umella scarcely callous ; umbilical region indented and in adult 

 shells perforated; color Avhite, miv.utely dotted with pink or brown- 

 ish, usually with a subsutural series of short alternate white and red 

 or brown flammules, sometimes repeated on periphery. 



Alt. 3, diam. 2 mill. 



Singapore (Archer). 



This species has something the aspect of a Pissoa. 



