CLASS GASTROPODA 
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Cytharella victoriana Dali, 1897 
Plate 11, fig. 7 
Bulletin of the Natural History Society of British Columbia, No. 2, 13; PI. 1, fig. 9. 
Shell small, solid, brownish or livid purple, with six whorls; spire 
rather acute, nucleus worn, but apparently smooth, the succeeding whorls 
sculptured with strong, flexuous, discontinuous ribs, which cross from 
suture to suture; the interspaces are wider than the ribs, of which there 
are nine on the last whorl; suture distinct, somewhat appressed and un¬ 
dulated by the ends of the ribs; aperture long, narrow, with a wide, 
strong, anal notch, the outer lip strong and heavy; pillar smooth, canal 
short, not recurved. Length of shell, 7; max. diameter, 3 mm. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum. Type locality, near Vic¬ 
toria, Vancouver Island, B. C. 
Range. Known only from type locality. 
Cytharella amatula Dali, 1919 
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 56:78; PI. 21, fig. 2. 
Shell small, pale waxen yellow, with occasional brown spots between 
the ribs, with about one and a half, smooth, white nuclear and about five 
and a half subsequent whorls; axial sculpture of (on the last whorl eight) 
stout protractively arcuate ribs with subequal or narrow interspaces not 
continuous up the spire, but extending from the suture over a slight 
shoulder to the canal; spiral sculpture of numerous, fine, sharp striae 
covering the shell (except on the anal fasciole) with flattish wider inter¬ 
spaces ; there is a slight angle at the shoulder; aperture narrow, the outer 
lip infolded, the anal sulcus large, the canal hardly differentiated, pillar 
smooth. Height of shell, 6.5; diameter, 3 mm. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum, No. 127534a. Type locality, 
San Diego, California. 
Range. Known only from type locality. 
Cytharella merita Hinds, 1843 
Proceedings, Zoological Society of London, 42. Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. 
Sulphur, Molluscae; PI. 6, fig. 20, 1844. 
Testa ovata, turra, acuminata, laevigata pallida; anfractibus senis, 
plico-costulatis, superne angulatis et linea fusca spiraliter cinctis; sutura 
simplici; anfractus ultimi dorso fusco nebuloso, transversim striato; labro 
acuto, intus laevi; apertura oblonga; canali subnullo. Axis 4 lin. (Hinds.) 
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