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MARINE SHELLS OF WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 
Shell ovately conical, rather gibbous, smooth, blackish-ash, encircled 
with a yellowish band; spire rather short, sharp; whorls angled at the 
upper part, tubercled at the angle; aperture small, columella arched, 
with a thin spread callosity; lip thickly varicose. (Reeve.) 
Type in Museum Cuming. Type locality, California or Lower Cali¬ 
fornia. 
Range. San Francisco to San Diego, and Lower California to 
Panama. Fossil: Pleistocene—Santa Barbara, San Pedro, and San Diego, 
California. 
Alectrion nodicinctus Adams, 1851 
Proceedings, Zoological Society of London, 110. 
N. testa ovato-turrita; spira acuminata, pallida, lineis rufis transversis 
cincta, transversim sulcata; plicis distantibus longitudinalibus, apud suturas 
noduliferis ornata; labio cum callo albo laevi nitido tecta; labro extus vari- 
coso, intus lirato. (Adams.) 
N. with shell ovate-turreted; spire acuminate, pale, girdled with 
transverse reddish lines, transversely sulcate; ornamented with distant 
longitudinal plications nodular at the sutures; inner lip covered with 
callus, smooth and shining; outer lip varicose on the outside, within 
lirate. ( T ranslation.) 
Type in Museum Cuming. Type locality, Galapagos Islands. 
Range. San Diego, California, to Panama and the Galapagos 
Islands. 
Alectrion noduliferus Philippi, 1848 
Zeitschrift fiir Malakosoologie, 136. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen ncue oder wenig 
gekannte Conchylien, Buccinum; PI. 1, fig. 3. 
B. testa subturrita, longitudinaliter plicata, transversim lirata, noduli- 
fera, flavida, anfractibus convexis, superius linea transversa spadicea, 
inferius fascia caerulescente pictis; liris transversis obtusis in anfr. supp. 
duabus, in ultimo circa 8; apertura ovata; labro extus varice acuto intus 
lineis elevatis transversis 4 sculpto; labio parum dilatato, lineis elevatis 
obliquis 4 aspera; faucibus luteis, fasciis tribus spadiceis. Alt., 8i^ ; 
diameter, 4i4'". Patria: China borealis. Largilliert. 
Anfractus 8, rotundati, ultimus antecedentibus simul sumtis paullo 
brevior. Plicae longitudinales, rectae, 9-10, interstitiis dimidio angus- 
tiores, superne ad suturam evanescentes, in anfractu ultimo usque ad 
basim productae. Lirae transversae obtusae, ubi plicas secant, nodulos 
formantes, duae in anfractibus superioribus quattuor in penultimo, se- 
cunda a tertia magis distans, prima et quarta minor. In aperturae angulo 
supremo plica seu linea elevata solita sed obliqua in labio ceritur, quod 
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