Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Volume III, 1863-1867Various
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Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Volume III, 1863-1867
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C. t. subelevatá, brunnescens, fusco-purpureo nebulosa, anfr.
vii. valde tumentibus, suturis impressis; carinis majoribus
in spirâ duabus, gemmatis, interdum brunneo huc et illuc
tinctis; serie granulorum minorum prope suturam; serie quartá
minimorum inter duas carinas; lirulis basalibus circ. ix.,
fusco maculatis; interstitiis à lineis incrementi corrugatis;
aperturá subquadratá. Long. 0.47, long. spir. 0.34, lat. 0.43,
div. 68°.
_Hab._ San Pedro five; San Diego four dead on beach at low
water—very rare. It is well distinguished by the two principal
necklaces, with smaller rows intercalating. In coloring it
resembles C. eximium Reeve, (versicolor Menke, Mazatlan
Catal.), from the Gulf of California.
_Calliostoma splendens_ Carp. n. sp. State Collection, Species
530 a.
C. t. parvâ, latiore, tenuiore; exquisité rufo-castaneo et
purpureo, interdum intensioribus, et livido, varie nebulosâ
et punctatâ; anfractu primo nucleoso diaphano, granuloso,
apice mamillato; dein iv. normalibus, subtabulatis; primo
costibus spiralibus ii. acutis, valde expressis, alterâ parvâ
suturali; anfr. penult. costis iii. quarum media extantior,
superior subgranulosa; anfr. ult. aliis intercalantibus,
supra peripheriam v. quarum tertia magis extans; interstitiis
à lineis incrementi vix decussatis; costâ circa peripheriam
angulatam conspicuâ; basi costulis rotundatis, haud
extantibus, peripheriam et axim versus conspicuis, medio sæpe
obsoletis; basi nitidâ, subplanatâ; aperturâ subquadratâ,
intus carneo-nacreâ, valde splendente: operculo tenuissimo,
levissimo, pallido, diaphano, concavo; anfr. circ. x. crebris,
parum definitis.
Long. 0.23, long. spir. 0.15, lat. 0.24, div. 87°.
_Hab._ Monterey, 20 fms. dredged 2, dead; Santa Barbara, in
roots of kelp growing in about 10 fms. 13, dredged in 16 fms.
2, dead; S. B. Island, 2, dead, on beach; Catalina Island,
30-40 fms. 2, alive; San Diego, 1, dead.
The specimens here described are probably mature, and are well
marked in character. The painting is richly lustrous, of a
fleshy nacre inside; outside, of a rich orange-chestnut or red,
variously laid on a light ground, sometimes with streaks of
nacreous purple, often with dots on the ribs. The operculum is
extremely thin and transparent.
SOLARIELLA Searles Wood, 1843.
_Solariella peramabilis_ Carp. n. sp. State Collection, Species
1025.
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