found it an all-sufficient recompense for the absence of human 
society. But better still, if, without Se lg the att tach A 
ments and comp nionships ‘of our k d, add to them some — 
charming friendships with the fil wild- folk of wood and field — __ 
James Buchum, i in N, Y. Obse : 
WEST AMERICAN MOULUSCA 
The last twelve or fifteen years ie been prolific in shang 
in the nomenclature of our shells and in discoveries of new varie 
ies. The following ieebHatons are in many 
compiled from the original publications cited. 
FUPA CALAMITOSA Mit Se Phila ac Pe 1889 411, ¢ 12, f eae 
expanded, calu 
margin rather dilated; parietal wall bearing 2 Sata lamell, 
arising near the termination of the outer lip, t the other 
y seated, elevated, entering less obliquel eh columella with wa 
white deep-seated obliquely ee ts outer lip wit 
white lane! le Altitude 1.7, diameter .8 mm. Near th 
of the Santo ‘Tomas river, Lower Califor, ee ee Te 
Hemphill; and near San Diego, Cal. by Ore 
MYOFORCEPS ARISTATUS edge 
oe friend, F. W. Kelse r, of nen Diego, Cal. 
that a teh specimens @ are ‘foun it imbedted in in bard rock 
that it is not of very recent inteoduetion, Se bigeee 
--tilus 13:131. March 1900. ee 
P usus Roperi Dall. a sh 
‘Shell small, rather abort and wid with a short, 
spire and almost 6 whorls; color Recetas bro hy 
ly zoned and lighter on the siphonal fasiole, pi ‘Mar er? roa 
ish, outer lip between the white of the throat and ‘the mar 
showing’ ee spiral brown tines on a yellowish ground, wh 
2 with a agin mn! toa ee narrow aevies) ake most evident on 
