TORNATINA. 189 



Brit. Asso. 1856, pp. 227, 313, 349 ; Moll. W. N. A., Smith. Misc. 

 Coll. 252, p. 23, 133. 



The height of the spire varies, being sometimes nearly flat, some- 

 times low-conoidal; the uptilted nucleus projecting. In all adult 

 specimens I have seen, the nucleus has been lost by erosion, as in 

 the figures. 



T. CULCITELLA Gould. PI. 50, fig. 38. 



Shell cylindrical-fusiform, with elevated, conical spire ; solid ; 

 white under a very thin buff cuticle, densely marked with close 

 finely undulating, chestnut spiral lines. Whorls 5, separated by 

 deep sutures, the apical whorl mamillar and uptilted. Aperture 

 long and narrow above, about eight-tenths the entire length of the 

 shell, dilated below, the outer lip arched forward, abruptly and 

 deeply retracted above, effuse below. Columellar fold very strong. 



Alt. 8*5, diam. 3*2 mill. (San Pedro specimen). 



Alt. 1, diam. } inch. (Old.). 



Santa Barbara (Jewett) and San Pedro, California. 



Bulla (Akera) culcitella OLD., Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, vi, p. 375, 

 Apr., 1852 ; Otia, p. 184. Tornatina culcitella GLD. & CPR., P. Z. 

 S. 1856, p. 203. CPR., Rep. Brit. Asso. Adv. Sci. 1856, pp. 313, 

 349 ; Moll. W. N. A., Smiths. Misc. Coll. 252, p. 23, 133. KEEP, 

 West Coast Shells, p. 125. f. 114. 



The close spiral brown striae are characteristic, as well as the 

 conically elevated spire. 







T. EXIMIA Baird. Unfigured. 



Shell cylindrical, greenish-buff, striated, the striae minute, close, 

 undulating ; spire very short and concavely excavated. Aperture 

 long, effuse at base ; lip acute , columella abruptly arcuate at base. 

 Alt. 12-5 mill. (Bd.). 



Esquimalt Harbor, Vancouver's Island. 



Bullina (Tornatina) eximia BD., P. Z. S. 1863, p. 67, and in 

 Lord's The Naturalist in Vancouver Isl. and Brit. Columbia, ii, p. , 

 361, 1866. Tornatina eximia Bd., CPR., Moll. Western N. A., pp. 

 89, 90, 133. 



