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the striae and intervals more or less fasciculated; aperture subtriangular, 
the outer lip modified by the sculpture, slightly expanded; throat and body 
glossy, pillar twisted; canal short, wide, recurved, forming a well-marked 
fasciole. Long, of shell, 38; of last whorl, 27; of aperture, 20; max. diam., 
20 mm. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum, No. 110518. Type locality, 
Station 3331, in Bering Sea, north of Unalaska. 
Range. Bering Sea, north of Unalaska, in 300 fathoms. 
Buccinum kadiakense Dali, 1907 
Plate 19, fig. 3 
Miscellaneous Collections, Smithsonian Institution, 50:147. Bulletin 112, United 
States National Museum; PI. 15, fig. 5. 
Shell small, acute, yellowish-white, with about six sharply sculptured 
whorls; suture distinct, not appressed; axial sculpture of (on the last 
whorl of the type about twelve) oblique, rounded, wave-like ribs, with 
wider interspaces, evanescent beyond the periphery; also of fine, promi¬ 
nent incremental lines; spiral sculpture of more or less alternated, distinct 
rounded threads, one at the periphery slightly more conspicuous than the 
others; the threads on the base, as usual, stronger than the others; aper¬ 
ture elongate, narrow, body and pillar callus, white, a slight, oblique 
ridge on the pillar near its anterior edge; pillar long, straight, white; 
canal wide, hardly recurved. Long, of shell, 21; of last whorl, 13.5; 
of apert., 9; max. diam., 8.5 mm. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum, No. 110527. Type locality, 
Kodiak Island, Alaska. 
Range. Kodiak Island, Alaska. 
Buccinum bulimuloideum Dali, 1907 
Plate 17, fig. 7 
Miscellaneous Collections, Smithsonian Institution, 50:150. Bulletin 112, United 
States National Museum; PI. 15, fig. 2. 
Shell small, very thin, with a thin periostracum of a straw-yellow 
color, distinct suture, subacute spire, and about six whorls; surface ap¬ 
parently smooth, but under the lens showing fine uniform microscopic 
spiral striation, but not fasciculated, but more or less undulate; aperture 
white, outer lip slightly expanded and thickened; a thin wash of callus 
on the body; pillar short, twisted, not pervious; canal short, wide, deep, 
forming a marked fasciole with no keel behind it; when fresh, the perios¬ 
tracum, rising on the incremental lines in microscopic elevated lines, 
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