90 THE NAUTILUS. 
rest went out on the breakwater to admire the scene. The high tide 
by moonlight was exquisitely beautiful. 
At three o’clock, after having breakfasted, we started out to col- 
lect while the moon was still shining brightly on the water. The 
tide was so low it seemed to me we could have walked over to San 
Pedro. Mrs. O. and I lingered back of the other collectors, and 
soon she picked upa Ranella californica Hds.,a fine specimen which 
now has a corner in my cabinet. How I did wish I could find one, 
I poked around with my trowel and suddenly I struck a lump; pick- 
ing it up, it proved to be a perfect specimen of Pleurotoma carpen- 
teriana Gabb, four and a quarter inches long. As I was afterward 
told, the only live one found inthe bay. After returning to the 
cabin we put it in water, and when disturbed it exuded a purple 
fluid. 
We walked to Dead Man’s Island and found a number of Acton 
punctocelatus Cpr. in the pools, Marginella Jewettii Cpr., Phasia- 
nella compta Gld. clinging to the sea grass on the rocks ; plenty of 
Fissurella voleano, Chlorostoma aureotinctum and Littorina planaxis 
all along the breakwater. On our way back to the cabin we col- 
lected Haminea virescens Sby., Bulla nebulosa Gld., Conus califor- 
nicus Hds. and Nassa tegula Rve. We also brought home a good 
many Chione, from which we made delicious soup. 
In July we went to Alamitos Bay, five miles from Long Beach ; 
it was another fine iow tide. This timeseven of us went in a wagon 
at four o’clock in the morning. We found Crucibulum spinosum 
Sby. on oyster shells, Cerithidia californica and Melampus olivaceus 
crawling up the grass stalks near the edge of the water, Gidalia 
subdiaphana, Angulus variegatus, Liocardium substriatum and Donax 
flecuosus living as it seemed in harmony together, also Amiantis cal- 
losa Conr., Tapes staminea Conr., Olivella betica Cpr., and many 
other shells. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
MouuuscAN FauNA oF FRESHWATER LAKES IN CENTRAL 
CrLepes.—Herrn P. and F. Sarasin direct attention to the re- 
markable molluses which live in the large and deep inland lakes of 
Celebes. The forms they were able to capture point to the existence 
of a fauna perhaps as interesting as that of the Lake of Baikal. 
