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A cotype shows that the first three nuclear whorls are 

 smooth. 



Dimensions : — Length of broken type, 13 mm. 



Type: — No. 417, cotype 418, Cal. Acad. Sci. Locality 181, 

 near Vader, Lewis County, Washington, on east bank of the 

 Cowlitz River, just back of the Greeco ranch house, about four 

 miles east of Vader. Colls., F. M. Anderson and Bruce Martin. 



Named in honor of Professor J. C. Merriam, of the Univer- 

 sity of California. 



Galeodea dalli, new species 

 PI. 30, Figs. 8a and 8b 



Shell globose, highly decorated by three rows of rounded 

 nodes on the body-whorl and by wavy spiral lines of variable 

 strength; four spiral whorls flat sided; fourth whorl marked 

 by 10 nodes; suture wavy, indistinct; body-whorl square 

 shouldered, decorated by three rows, about 13 to each row 

 on upper half, lower row of lesser strength than others; 

 canal short, twisted backward; a prominent siphonal fasciole 

 present ; inner lip marked by about 10 indefinite lirations ; inside 

 of outer lip grooved to match the more prominent interspaces. 



No varix appears on the type or cotype or on a representative 

 of this species from the Oligocene of Pittsburg, Oregon, which 

 distinguishes it readily from G. tuberculata (Gabb), and G. 

 marysvillensis Dickerson, both from the Tejon Eocene of the 

 Pacific Coast. 



Dimensions: — Length of broken type, 15 mm. 



Type:— Ho. 419, cotype 420, Cal. Acad. Sci. Locality 181, 

 near Vader, Lewis County, Washington, on east bank of the 

 Cowlitz River, just back of the Greeco ranch house, about four 

 miles east of Vader. Colls., F. M. Anderson and Bruce Martin. 



Named in honor of Dr. William Healy Dall, Honorary Cura- 

 tor of Mollusca, Smithsonian Institution. 



Triforis martini, new species 



PI. 30, Fig. 9 



Shell, elongate-conic, with eight slightly convex whorls; 

 whorls decorated by three rows formed by the crossing of 

 three strong spiral lines and about 16 axial ribs which are 



