140 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vouxxii. 



Bolinas, Tomales, and Bodega bays, particularly the first and the 

 adjacent Duxbury reef, being near San Francisco, have been visited by 

 a few collectors, by Colonel Jewett and myself in 1866, and since by 

 Eaymond, Hemphill, and Wood, and again by the author, but nothing 

 like thorough work has been done even at these places, the number 

 of species of mollusks usually obtained being from 90 to 100. At 

 Bodega, visited by Dr. Kewcomb and myself in 1867, some 90 species 

 were collected. Mr. Hemphill has collected at Fort Bragg and Hum- 

 boldt Bay, at the latter place securing some interesting forms, including 

 Paludinella neivcomhiana^ a new species. On the coast of Mendocino 

 County, nearly thirty years ago, Mr. Harford found near Big Spanish 

 Flat a new Fusus {F. harfordii). His collection was exceedingly 

 meager, most of his time having been devoted to botany. A visit to 

 Crescent City made by the author in 1862 was a failure so far as shell 

 collecting was concerned, for the beaches and shores in every direction 

 were so piled up with driftwood and the refuse of the great flood of the 

 previous winter as to be absolutely inaccessible. Some little collecting 

 has been done at Coos and Shoalwater ^ bays and at Grays Harbor, on 

 the coast of Washington. 



It will be seen from the foregoing that the totality of research 

 throughout this great stretch of coast is quite insignificant. The same 

 may be said in great measure of the biological investigation of the 

 uplands back from and bordering on the shore. 



The occurrence of Olivella intorta in quantity somewhere along the 

 coast in the neighborhood of Trinidad is implied by the large number 

 of this rare species contained in a necklace ^ obtained from the Hoopa 

 Indians by Lieutenant Eay. 



Another peculiar form has recently been added to the few that have 

 been detected in the region herein reviewed. 



HALIOTIS FULGENS Philippi var. WALALLENSIS Stearns. 



On the coast of Mendocino County, California, in the extreme south- 

 west corner, close to the northerly boundary line of Sonomo County, is an 

 embarcadero, or shipping point of the lumber interests of that neighbor- 

 hood. Here is situated a small settlement known as Gualala.^ The 

 coast hereabout is broken and rocky, with blufls 50 to 100 feet high. 

 In the immediate vicinity of this village Mr. J. J. Rivers some years 

 ago collected the form here described,"* specimens of which are contained 



' It may be well to recall what I have elsewhere mentioned, the planting of Mya 

 arenaria in Shoalwater Bay by Captain Simpson, of San Francisco. This was some 

 fifteen years ago. 



2 Cat. No. 77185, U.S.N.M., Ethnological department. 



•■'Gualala, which is the official post-ofSce name of the village, is a localized cor- 

 ruption of the Indian WalaUa, which latter, I think, should be perpetuated. 



•*A preliminary description of this variety was published in The Nautilus, No. 9, 

 XII, January, 1899. 



