664 REPORT—1863. 
Nutt.| Jew. | B.A. | Smiths. Ins. Ken. | Lord./Swan.| Cooper. 
481. Chrysodomus CHTUS <2 2 s's > —{—|P VI PIiVIv a 
482 rectirostris ........ —|—|— 2n¥ Pees al! 
483. Fusus ambustus ........ — |Bfs.| C EME . |.—S9pSbnie|-Bpr 
484, Macron Kellettii........ ary ay Ti; Sell yee eT 
485, Tiyidan! } Sard ie sees) —]—}— Ty. . 4. 29S D 
486. Anachis subturrita ...... —|}—|— — ites ee D 
487. ? penicillata........ —|B/— — oe} REL rhein DI 
488. Argonauta Argo ........ —|—|— — ane |) Hey) ae I 
489, Octopus punctatus ...... —|—j}—| (FL). |/?P| —/?v I 
490, Ommastrephes giganteus .| — | — | — = tes) ahah eat I 
491, —— Ayresli .......... —/}/—;-] — Lb aby isa I 
492. Onychoteuthis fusiformis .| — | — | — ?M P Putra I 
481. Chrysodomus dirus, Rve.=incisus, Gld. = Sitchensis, Midd. Dark liver, with 
spiral grooves. 
482. Chrysodomus rectirostris, n.s. Small, white, smooth, with straight canal. 
483. Fusus ambustus, Gld. Otia. Close to clavata, Brocchi, from Mediterranean. 
Farallone Is. teste Darbishire ; 16 fm. c. Cp. 
484. Macron Kellettii, A. Ad, P. Z.S. 1853, p- 185, Mean with blunt keels, Dead, 
60 fm. Cat. Is. Cp. 
485. Macron lividus, A. jv Small, smooth. 
486. Anachis subturrita, n. 8. Aspect of small Rissoina, 20 faint ribs: no spiral 
sculpture. 
487. P Anachis penicillata, n. 8. Small, with Metuloid sculpture. Beach-10 fm. Cp. 
Class CEPHALOPODA. ~— Family Argonautide. 
488, Argonauta Argo, Linn. auct. Like the Mediterranean form. Hundreds on Sta 
Cruz Is. Cp. 
Family Octopide. 
489, Octopus punctatus, Gabb, Proc. Cal. Ac. 1862, p. 170. S, Clemente Is. Cp. 
Family Loligide. 
490. Ommastrephes giganteus, D’Orb. Peru. Common at 8. Clemente Is. Cp. 
491. Ommastrephes Ayresii, Gabb, Proc. Cal.Ac. Hundreds on S. Clemente i Cp. 
492. Onychoteuthis gusfor mts, Gabb, Proc. Cal. Ac. 1862, p. 171. “Cape Horn, 
Mus. Ac.” lemente Is. C; "Dp. 
113. It remains to tabulate the shells which have been received from 
special localities, south of the State of California, either by the writer or by 
the Smithsonian Institution; wide Br. Assoc. Rep., par. 77. 
The promontory of Lower California has been so little explored, that the 
existence of a large inland fiord, in lat. 28°, was not known to the autho- 
rities. It appears that the whales have long delighted in its quiet waters; 
and those whalers who were in the secret carefully preserved the exclusive 
knowledge of so profitable a hunting-ground. All that we know at present 
of the molluscs of that region is from collections made at Cerros Island, by 
Dr. Ayres and Dr. Veitsch. They are mostly shore shells, and are sadly 
intermixed with an abundance of cowries, cones, strombs, and other clearly 
Pacific species, which throw great doubt upon those which may be truly 
from the coast. As it is manifestly a “hotbed of spurious species,” nothing 
can safely be built upon the data, which present a singular intermixture of 
northern and southern forms. Excluding the Central Pacific importations, 
the lists stand as follows, the temperate species being distinguished (as in the 
first Report) by a *, the tropical by a t:— 
