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MARINE SHELLS OF WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 
Shell ovate-fusiform, ashy-rosy, obsoletely latticed; with six whorls 
rotund-angulate next to the suture, longitudinally girdled with high lines 
transversely plicate; with rather short spire. (Translation.) 
Type in Copenhagen. Type locality, Arctic. 
Range. White Island, Arctic Ocean, to north of Bering Sea. 
Lora harpularia Couthouy, 1838 
Boston Journal of Natural History, 2:106; PI. 1, fig. 10. 
Shell oblong, fusiform, turreted; color, yellowish-brown; whorls, 6-8, 
convex, slightly angular superiorly, and planulated at the suture, which is 
clearly defined; they are traversed by numerous, oblique, rounded ribs, to 
the number of 19 on the body-whorls, whose interstices are filled with deli¬ 
cate but distinct, transverse striations, extending nearly across the ribs; 
aperture elongated, oval, rendered somewhat angular at the outer, superior 
extremity by the plantation of the body-whorl; lip sharp and smooth 
internally; columella smooth, arcuated, with a slight callus upon its inferior 
portion; canal short and inclined to the left. Long., 11/20; diameter of 
last whorl, 5/12 in. (Couthouy.) 
Type in Boston Society of Natural History. Type locality, from a cod 
taken off Phillips’ Point, Lynn, Massachusetts. 
Range. Point Belcher, Arctic Ocean, to Puget Sound. Circumboreal. 
Lora nazanensis Dali, 1919 
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 56:45; PI. 15, fig. 8. 
Shell short-fusiform, white with a brown band in front of the suture 
and another on the base, or all white with about five whorls and a very 
small blunt nucleus, suture distinct, whorls moderately rounded; axial 
sculpture of (on the penultimate whorl about 25) narrow, crowded, sig¬ 
moid ribs not passing the periphery but extending from the preceding 
suture with narrower interspaces; spiral sculpture of narrow grooves with 
wider interspaces, more close toward the base and on the spire cutting the 
summits of the ribs; aperture simple, pillar white, erased; canal short, 
straight. Height of shell, 11; of last whorl, 8; diameter, 5.5 mm. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum, No. 220327. Type locality, 
Nazan Bay, Atka Island, Aleutian Islands. 
Range. Norton Sound, Alaska, to Aleutian Islands. 
Lora morchi Leche, 1878 
Konglige Svenska Vetenskaps Akadcmie, Handlinger, 16:57; PI. 1, fig. 18. 
Att ej foreliggande form utan den foljande (se nedan) ar “PI. gigas 
Beck PI. violacea Migh. et ad, var. gigantea Morch,” af hvilken Morch 
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