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the geographical range and means of distribution of shells. San 
Diego soc, nat. hist. tr. 1:85-113 (1911). 
in this last named paper are described the following: 
2238 Murex carpenteri tremperi 
Newport, Cal. 
2239 Ocinebra stearnsi 
Monterey, Cal. 
2240 Helix loricata sonomaensis 
Healdsburgh, Sonoma Co., Cal. 
2241 Tonites wascoensis 
Wasco Co., Oregon. 
2242 Helix walkeriana 
San Luis Obispo, Cal., with the next. 
2243 Variety Morroensis 
2244 Circinaria kelseyi 
San Mateo and San Luis Obispo counties, Cal. 
2245 Helix avalonensis 
A variety of the strigosa group. Catalina Island, Cal. 
2246 Berry, S. S.: 
Note on the occurrence of a giant squid off the California 
coast. Nautilus 25:117. Records a specimen 30 feet across float- 
ing in Monterey bay, Cal., not Dosidicus gigas. 
2247 Dosidicus gigas D’Orbigny. 
This attains a length of 4 or 5 feet, and frequents the waters 
off the Californian shores as far north as Monterey, Cal. 
Synonymy:—Ommastrephes gigas D’Orbigny. 
2248 Aisopus goforthi Dall. 
Named in honor of W. C. Goforth, who is aL avaty to have 
collected it at Monterey, Cal. 
‘“‘Shell smooth, slender, elongate, with inconspiéusus sutures 
and about 8 whorls; nucleus defective, smooth; subsequent whorls 
gradually increasing, moderately convex; color greenish-waxen 
with fiammules of dark chestnut so arranged on the last whorl 
as to form 2 irregular bands, one above and the other below the 
periphery, which also show in the interior of the aperture and on 
the base of the pillar; the paler portion of the surface is also 
irregularly mottled with opaque whitish blotches Aperture short, 
rather wide; the outer lip simple, sharp, smooth within; body and 
pillar smooth, with a thin wash of callus; canal short, wide, not 
recurved. Length of shell 13, of last whorl 6, of aperture 4, max. 
diam. of shell 3.3.’—Dall, Nautilus 25:127. 
2249A Genus Grippina Dall. 
‘Shell slightly inequivalve, donaciform, small, with a well- 
marked, rounded, ascending pallial sinus; right valve receiving 
the dorsal edges of the left in grooves beneath its own dorsal 
margins; cardinal teeth 2, large, subequal, prominent, horizon- 
tally produced and fitting under the beak of the left valve; resil- 
ium strong, compressed, situated between the 2 cardinals attached 
under the beak of the left valve, and having on its ventral sur- 
face a thin calcareous coating or ossiculum.’’—Dall, Nautilus 25: 
128. Allied to Corbula. Type:— 
2249 Grippina californica Dall. 
“Shell minute, subtrigonal, whitish, solid for its size, finely 
concentrically sculptured; beaks moderately elevated, smooth; 
inner margins of the valves smooth, the left valve with no hinge- 
plate; a narrow lanceolate lunule and subequal, similar escutch- 
