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polish or villosity; lines of growth distinct, spiral sculpture of 
fine strie with wider flattish interspaces, alternately coarser on 
the base; suture deep, the whorl below it often obscurely puckered 
near the suture; canal rather short, wide, and recurved. Alt. 70, 
diam. mm. 
1389 Volutopsius trophonius Dall. 
South of Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea, in 81 fms. 
1890 Volutopsius kobelti Dall. 
Pribiloff Islands, Bering Sea, and Nunivak Island. 
Synonymy:—?Tritonium behringii Midd.—Neptunea behringii 
Kobelt.—Strombella beringi Dall. 
1391 Volutopsius castaneus Mecerch. 
Synonymy:—Neptunea castanea Moerch.—Neptunea badia 
Moerch.—Strombella castanea Dall. 
Aleutian Islands and eastward to Kadiak, in shallow water. 
1392 Volutopsius attenuatus Dall. 
Synonymy:—vVolutopsis attenuata Dall.—Strombella atten- 
uata Dall. 
Bering Sea and adjacent Arctic waters. 
1393 Volutopsius regularis Dall. 
Synonymy.—vVolutopsis berengi var. reguJaris Dall.—Strom- 
bella regularis Dall. 
Aleutian and Shumagin Islands, Alaska, rare. 
1394 Beringius crebricostatus Dall. 
Synonymy:—Chrysodomus crebricostatus Dall. 
Unalaska, Aleutians, in 100 fms. (Dall). 
1395 Beringius? kennicottii Dall. 
Synonymy:—Buccinium  kennicottii Dall. :—Chrysodomus 
kennicottii Dall.—Neptunea behringi Kobelt. 
Kadiak Islands, Alaska. 
1396 Liomesus Nux Dall. 
Synonymy:—Buccinopsis nux Kobelt. 
East shore of Nagai Island, Shumagins, and at Unalaska in 15 
fathoms. 
1397 lLiomesus canaliculatus Dall. 
Synonymy:—Buccinopsis canaliculata Dall. 
North end of Nunivak Island, Bering Sea (Dall). 
1398 lLiomesus ooides Middendorf. 
Tugar basin, Okhosk Sea (Midd.).—Bering Strait (Stimpson). 
Synonymy:—tTritonium ooides Midd.—T. ovoides Midd.— 
Bucecinium ovoides Kobelt. 
1399 Astyris aurantiaca Dall, Am J Con 7:115 (1871),t15f 138. 
Monterey, Cal., at low tide (Dall). 
Color varies from orange yellow to brown or yellow with zig- 
zag brown markings; generally subtranslucent. 
1400 Murex (Pteropurpura) Carpenteri Dall. 
ecole maa carpenteri Dall, Nautilus 12:148 
Farallones Islands, Cal., south to vicinity of San Diego, Cal., 
in 15-60 fms. 
Shell of a somewhat livid pale brown, pinkish toward apex, 
white around aperture; surface smooth (except of the nuclean 
whorls and anterior faces of the varices). 
1401 Murex (Pteropurpura) petri Dall, Nautilus 14:37 (1900). 
San Pedro, Cal., in about 50 fms. (Oldroyd). 
Yellowish-white, curved with finely imbricated spiral threads, 
of which about every fourth one is slightly larger; aperture white, 
varices distally curved. 
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