A. E. Verrill on Shells from the Gulf of California. 219 
The color is varied with white, light lemon-yellow, rosy, 
brown, and purple; these colors being arranged partly in 
humerous rays, partly in spots and patches. Usually there are 
many alternating narrow rays of white and rosy, the other 
Callista pollicaris. 
_ Carpenter, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xiii, p. 312, 18 
65. 
prora var., Reeve, Conch. Icon., xiv, PL x, fig. 45, (non Conrad). 
Several spocunany of this rare and beautiful species were 
obtained, w 
ich show considerable variation, especially in color. 
most of the specimens, but in some, especially the smaller ones, 
the anterior wrinkles are obsolete, and sometimes also the 
Posterior ones. Palial sinus large, broad and oval. Some 
ran 
rown; more commonly the color is yellowish with concent 
waved or zigzag streaks and spots of orange-brown, sometim 
With imperfect radiating bands of the same color in addition ;~ 
a large specimen is thus marked for about an inch from apex, © 
beyond which it is white, faintly specked with brown. One 
hite wit ra 
Length, 2-10 inches. 2°08 15 
Height, Fe en io 
Breadth, Ce : 
Apex to posterior end, i eee ie = 
Palial sinus fromedge, 115 “ 
