48 Bulletin Santa Barbara Society of Natural History. Vol, I. 



Vermiculus Fewkesi, L. G. Yates, (no v. sp.) PI. 2, 

 Figs. 8-9. 



Shell consisting of a long, brown, conical tube, mark 

 ed with numerous unequal raised lines along its entire 

 length; at the pointed end is a spire of ten closely con 

 nected whorls, upon each of which is a sharp raised 

 line below the central portion of the whorl; a less prom- 

 inent raised line shows at the jointure with the next 

 whorl below, and after the whorls seperate another and 

 still less prominent Hue is seen; on the upper portion 

 of the whorl which in the turritelloid portion of the 

 shell is covered, or merged into the line of contact of 

 the different whorls above, numerous fine lines are 

 seen between, and all are crossed by distinct lines of 

 growth; as the shell increases in size the lower raised 

 line, instead of the central one, becomes most promi- 

 nent. The turritelloid portion of the single specimen 

 found is nine millimeters long, the aperture is circular, 

 three millimeters in diameter, the entire length of the 

 shell is sixteen millimeters. One specimen found near 

 Ellwood by Albert E. Yates. This shell is dedicated 

 to my esteemed friend Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, Secre- 

 tary of the Boston Society of Natural History, as a 

 recognition of the time and labor spent by him in the 

 description and delineation of some of our new marine 

 fauna. 



