54 THE NAUTILUS. 
it shall require the chartering of the small schooner now lying in 
the channel, to carry them down to the City! 
Deseo que el lugar que ha sicto tan atractivo y productivo en lo 
pasado para el que se suscribe para siempre permanetea inmutable. 
Bolinas, Cal., July 4th. 
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NOTE ON A CALIFORNIAN HELIX. 
BY HENRY A. PILSBRY. 
In the “ Manual of American Land Shells” Mr. Binney figured 
a shell from San Pablo as a form of “ Arionta californiensis var. 
ramentosa Gld.” It would seem that the same form has been sub- 
sequently described by both Dall and myself, although until recently 
collating materials for the new catalogue of U.S. land shells, I had 
entirely forgotten that I had ever noticed the form in question. 
The published references are as follows: 
1885.—“ A smaller form of this variety [7. e. ramentosa] from San 
Pablo,” W. G. Binney, Man. Amer. L. Sh., Bull. 28 U.S. Nat. 
Mus., p. 133, f. 108 (no description). 
1895, Feb. 2.— Epiphragmop hora californiensis v. contracoste Pilsbry, 
Guide to the Study of Helices, Man. Conch. (2), IX, p. 199 (a 
nude name). 
1895, Oct. 1.—Epiphragmophora californiensis var. contracoste. Pils- 
bry, Nautilus IX, p. 72 (description). 
1896, Apr. 23.—Epiphragmophora Arnheimi Dall, Proc. U.S. Nat. 
Nat. Mus. XVIII, p. 6 (no description; refers to Binney’s 
figures). 
1897, Jan —Epiphragmophora Arnheimi Dall, Proc. U. S. N. M. 
XIX, p. 375 (full description). 
As will be seen from the above, the form was recognized by my- 
self in 1894 when reviewing the Helices for the “Guide” but the 
number in which the name appears although printed in 1894, was 
not issued until February, 1895, and it was in no way defined at 
that time; the brief diagnosis then prepared being overlooked for 
some months, finally appearing in October, 1895. I do not know 
when the form was first recognized by my friend in Washington, 
but from the notorious tardiness of the Proceedings of the Nat. Mus., 
and the fact that a partial abstract or Dall’s article appeared in 
Navuriwus for Sept., 1895, and was furnished by him a month or two 
