96 MARINE SHELLS OF WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 
Shell wide, with short spire, and sloping- but rather well-defined 
shoulder; densely costulate longitudinally, crossed by about ten spiral 
riblets, forming a cancellated surface; yellowish ash-color. (Tryon, 
Manual of Conchology.) 
Type in Copenhagen. Type locality, Bellsound, 5 examplarres. 
(Kroyer.) 
Range. Sea Horse Islands, Arctic Ocean, to Kodiak Island, Alaska. 
Circumboreal. 
Described as Bala impressa. 
Lora scalaris Moller, 1842 
Plate 7, fig. 8 
Index Molluscorum Gronlandiae, 12. G. O. Sars, Mollusca regionis arcticae Norvegiae; 
PI. 23, fig. 5, 1878. 
Testa ovata-fusiformi, alba vel rubicunda; anfr. 6 justa suturam angu- 
latis, longitudinaliter lineis impressis cinctis, transversim costulatis; spira 
acuminata, longiore quam venter. L.6,5'". (Moller.) 
Shell ovate fusiform, white or reddish; with six whorls angulate to the 
suture, girdled longitudinally with impressed lines, transversely costulate; 
spire acuminate, longer than the venter. (Translation.) 
Type in Copenhagen. Type locality, Greenland. 
Range. Bering Sea to Sitka, Alaska. Circumboreal. 
Lora inequita Dali, 1919 
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 56:44; PI. 16, fig. 9. 
Shell yellowish white, thin, of about six moderately rounded whorls, 
the nucleus eroded; suture distinct; spiral sculpture on the early of two 
strong cords one on each side of the periphery, between which are first 
one, later two, and finally four smaller threads; the posterior cord gives 
the whorl a slight shoulder; on the last whorl in front of the anterior cord 
to the end of the canal are smaller, more or less alternate flattish cords, 
close-set, the interspaces wider on the canal; axial sculpture of (on the 
penultimate whorl about 20) rounded sigmoid ribs with wider or subequal 
interspaces, crossing the early whorls, becoming less evident on the later 
whorls, and obsolete on the base of the last whorl; the incremental lines 
are more or less evident; aperture narrow, simple; pillar white, erased, 
attenuated in front. Height of shell, 11; of last whorl, 7; diameter, 4 mm. 
(Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum, No. 222238. Type locality, 
Plover Bay, Bering Sea. 
Range. Plover Bay to Boca de Quadra, Alaska. 
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