250 LITTORINA. 



Var. PENICILLATA, Carpenter. Fig. 85. 



Small, flatly, closely spirally striate ; ash color, with irregular 

 longitudinal chestnut lines and two distant bluish spiral lines. 



Length 6 mill. 



Cape St. Lucas, L. Cal. 



L. PINTADO Wood. PL 44, fig. 86; PI. 45, fig. 88. 



Yellowish white or greyish, smooth or slightly, closely, spirally 

 striate, whole surface covered by very minute, close chestnut dots, 

 aperture yellowish chestnut with darker spiral lines. 



Length, 16-24 mill. 



Sandwich Is. 



The synonyms are L. serialis, Souleyet, L. ambigua and L. tene- 

 brata, Nuttall, (fig. 88). 



L. PAYTENSIS, Phil. PL 45, figs. 90, 91, 95, 96. 



With distant engraved lines, and angulated periphery, whitish, 

 punctate with chestnut and with an obsolete chestnut band, aperture 

 chestnut color, with two pale bands. Length, 12 mill. 



Payta, Peru. 



I am not acquainted with this species, L. Araucana, d'Orb. (figs. 

 95, 96), is probably identical. 



L. CINGULIFERA, Dunker. PL 45, fig. 97. 



Obsoletely spirally, engraved, white or ash color with spiral chest- 

 nut lines, aperture bluish, with chestnut lines. Length, 12 mill. 



Guinea, W. Africa. 



L. SCUTULATA, Gould. PI. 45, figs. 98-3. 



Faintly striate with spiral impressed lines, olivaceous chestnut or 

 chocolate color, including aperture, sometimes not variegated, but 

 usually with longitudinal zigzag white markings, sometimes broken 

 up into spots, and frequently with an articulated white and chestnut 

 band on the periphery. Length 9-12 mill. 



Washington Territory to Southern California. 



The variations of this beautiful species are too numerous for des- 

 cription: several of them have received names; such as L. plena, 

 Gould, (fig. 1), L. lepida, Gld. (fig. 2), L. pullata, Carp. (fig. 3). 



L. TESSELLATA, Phil. PL 45, fig. 89. 



Shell rather thin, whorls convex, the last very obtusely angulated 

 on the periphery, closely lineately grooved and finely tessellated 



