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MARINE SHELLS OF WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 
Lora regulus Dali, 1919 
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 56:48; PI. 15, fig. 1. 
Shell small, white, slender, with predominant spiral sculpture, five 
whorls, the nucleus eroded; anal fasciole constricted, narrow, the suture 
inconspicuous, appressed; axial sculpture occasional, faint traces of thread¬ 
like obsolete ribs; spiral sculpture of (on the penultimate whorl four or 
five, on the last whorl about nine) flattish, somewhat undulated spirals 
with irregular interspaces, usually wider on the last whorl, and on the 
canal finer, close, spiral threads; aperture narrow, inner lip erased, canal 
short, slightly recurved. Height of shell, 8; of last whorl, 5; diameter, 
3 mm. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum, No. 207262. Type locality, 
off Point Reyes, California, in 61 fathoms. 
Range. Known only from the type locality. 
Lora miona Dali, 1919 
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 56:47; Pi. 14, fig. 2. 
Shell white, small, roundly shouldered with rather coarse sculpture on 
the spire, which becomes obsolete on the last whorl; axial sculpture of (on 
the penultimate whorl 13) rounded irregular ribs with subequal inter¬ 
spaces, the ribs nodulate by the intersection of three or four rather strong 
spiral cords with narrower interspaces; on the last whorl the ribs are 
obsolete and the spiral sculpture feebler, flatter, and with occasional inter¬ 
calary smaller threads; anal fasciole and sulcus obscure, aperture narrow, 
inner lip erased, canal short. Height of shell, 8; of last whorl, 5; diameter, 
3.5 mm. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum, No. 252208. Type locality, 
Boca de Quadra, Alaska. 
Range. Boca de Quadra, Alaska, to Point Reyes, California. 
Lora fidicula Gould, 1849 
Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 3: 141. United States Explor¬ 
ing Expedition; fig. 284, 1852. 
Testa parva, tenuis, albida, longitudinaliter lamelloso, costata, costis 
viginti-quattuor, striis volventibus ad octo decussatis; spira conica, turrita; 
anfractibus septem tabulatis, ultimo in rostro brevi subito attenuato: aper- 
tura angusta, dimidiam longitudinis testae baud aequanas, postice angu- 
lata; labro acuto, crenulato; columella postice arcuata, alba, polita. (Gould.) 
Shell small, thin, dirty white, turreted, short fusiform. Surface sculp¬ 
tured with delicate, regular, obtuse, longitudinal rib-folds, about twenty- 
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