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MARINE SHELLS OF WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 
shell, their wider interspaces striated by the incremental lines. Aperture 
about half as long as the shell, the outer lip sharp, the throat smooth and 
white; the pillar white, not callous, with three distinct, oblique plaits 
beside the slightly raised margin of the canal, these are only visible from 
the side of the aperture; anteriorly the pillar is tortuous, slightly recurved, 
open and rather wide. Length of shell, 14; of the aperture, 7; width of 
shell, 6 mm. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum. Type locality, off Avalon, 
Catalina Island, California. 
Range. Santa Barbara Channel, as far as Catalina Island. 
Family CHRYSODOMIDAE 
Genus KELLETTIA Bayle, 1884 
Shell large, fusiform, heavy. Whorls strongly spirally striated, nine 
or ten in number, nodulous along the median angulation. Outer lip thick¬ 
ened, showing the inner spiral ribs; inner lip smooth with callus. Spire 
high, almost fusiform. Aperture half the length of shell; canal moderately 
long, recurved; umbilicus open. (I. Oldroyd.) 
Type. Kellettia kellettii Forbes. 
Distribution. California, Lower California, and Japan. 
Kellettia kellettii Forbes, 1850 
Proceedings , Zoological Society of London, 1850, p. 274; PI. 9, fig. 10. 
F. testa crassa, fusiformi, pyramidata, anfractibus 9, spiraliter striatis, 
angulatis, noduloso-costatis in anfractibus ominbus 8, prope suturam obso- 
letis excavatis appressisque; anfractu ultimo testae occupante; aper- 
tura elongato-pyriformi, superne angulata; inferne canali oblique plus % 
aperture aequante; labro columellari reflexo, incrassato, labro externo, 
attenuato, subdenticulato; cauda incrassata, contorta, reflexa; colore sor- 
didae albido, ore albo. Long., 3; lat. max. anfr. ult., 1.2; long, apert., 
224; long, caud., .9 unc. (Forbes.) 
It is distinct from any known Fusus. In general aspect it closely 
resembles a Fasciolaria, but is greatly larger and has no plaits on the 
pillar lip. The striae which wind round the whorls are grouped in twos 
and threes. They become very strongly marked and assume the character 
of sulcations on the caudal portion of the body-whorl. The ribs are mainly 
developed a little above the centre on the angulated portion of the body- 
whorl and on the lower halves of the upper whorls, so prominently as 
to appear like large tubercles. (Forbes.) 
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