116 THE NAUTILUS. 
grooved to the end of the canal. Outer lip thin and broken, 
the notch shows small on the last line of growth. Aperture el- 
liptical; columella curved, slightly encrusted. There is a slight 
umbilical fissure. Length, 23; breadth, 9 mm.; length of aper- 
ture including canal 9 mm. 
Type, University of California, coll. Type locality, upper 
pleistocene, at Pacific Beach, San Diego, Co. The type and 
three other specimens were collected by Mr. Henry Hemphill. 
CoNUS CALIFORNICUS FOSSILIS, var. nov. Plate V, fig. 9. 
This answers the description of Conus californicus with the 
exception that it is much larger, stronger, and with spire much 
more elevated. Length, 40; width, 19; height of spire 14 mm. 
angle of spire 70. 
Type is in the Oldroyd collection, Stanford University. 
Type locality, lower San Pedro series, Nob Hill cut, San Pedro. 
This variety is found in both the upper and lower San Pedro: 
beds. 
VERMETUS NopDosus, n. sp. Plate V, fig. 10. 
Shell a fragment; length, 46; breadth, 11 mm.; smooth and 
perfectly round and curved, septate within. The specimen has 
three large pear-shaped nodes, two of which are opposite each 
other, over the septum, one lengthwise of the shell, and the 
other crosswise. 
Type is in the Oldroyd collection Stanford University. Type 
locality, lower San Pedro series of the Nob Hill cut, San Pedro. 
TORNATINA TUMIDA, n. sp. Plate V. fig. 8. 
Shell cylindrical, smooth, white, whorls five including the 
nuclear, which is small and sunken; spire rather flat, sutures 
deeply channeled; aperture nearly the length of the body whorl}. 
posterior end narrowed, anterior much dilated and rounded 
toward the columella, which is strongly plicated, and covered 
with a light incrustation extending nearly to the top of the 
whorl. Length, 6; breadth, 834 mm. 
Type is in the Oldroyd collection Stanford University. Type 
locality Lower San Pedro series of the Nob Hill cut, San Pedro,. 
Cal. 
