CLASS GASTROPODA 
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The features of a young living specimen from Monterey are obscured 
by the shaggy epidermis, of which beach specimens show no trace what¬ 
ever. In much thickened specimens there is a lump on the whorl at the 
posterior angle of the aperture. It is perfectly distinct from the other 
Californian species and from any I find figured in the monographs. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum. Type locality, Monterey, 
California. 
Range. Monterey to San Diego, California. 
SECTION FUSINUS s.s. 
Fusinus luteopictus Dali, 1877 
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 7 :3. Proceedings of the United 
States National Museum, 15; PI. 20, fig. 4, 1892. 
Shell small, fusiform; whorls five, convex, crossed by nine rounded 
ridges which reach their maximum development on the middle of the 
whorl; surface ornamented with three or four prominent spiral lines, 
with finer ones sometimes intercalated; suture appressed; aperture sub- 
ovate; outer lip not thickened, with internal spiral lines; inner lip in- 
crusted; columella short; canal very short, narrow. Long., 19; lat., 10; 
body-whorl, 13.5; aperture including canal, 10; canal, 3 mm. (Arnold.) 
Type in United States National Museum. Type locality, Monterey, 
California. 
Range. Monterey, California, to Gulf of California. Fossil: Pleis¬ 
tocene, San Pedro, California. 
Fusinus diminutus Dali, 1915 
Plate 8, fig. 1 
Nautilus, 29 :56. 
A little brownish species has been received from San Pedro Bay from 
several collectors which seems to be undescribed. It has five whorls 
without the nucleus, four or five strong spiral threads between the sutures 
on the spire and 13-15 on the last whorl, with a few minute and irregular 
intercalary threads; the interspaces are crossed by minute axial ribs, most 
distinct near the periphery. The shell is about 11 mm. long by 5.5 mm. 
wide, and 5 mm. of the length is included in the spire. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum. Type locality, San Pedro, 
California. 
Range. Known only from the type locality. 
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