134 THE NAUTILUS. 



Axinnea septentrionalis Midd. Reported by the late Rev. G. W. 

 Taylor as being not uncommon on the Northern and Western Coasts 

 of Vancouver Island, but not observed by him at Victoria or 

 Departure Bay, so that I was all the more surprised this summer, 

 to pick up a specimen in good condition at Maple Bay lying on the 

 beach near high water mark. Through the kindness of Mr. Taylor 

 I possess a good set of the species from Northern waters. 



Psammobia rubroradiata Nuttall. The late Rev. G. W. Taylor 

 in his List of the Marine Mollusoa of the Pacific Coast of Canada, 

 refers to this as being a rare species, stating that he had not seen 

 living specimens. At Maple, Bay this appears to be one of the 

 species occurring there in numbers, broken shells are in abundance, 

 and quite good ones are often washed up, many still retaining the 

 animal, and of quite a fair size. This shell seen lying in the water 

 is rather a beauty, but in the cabinet a very ordinary shell, as the 

 color seems largely to disappear. 



Semele rubropicta Dall. Quite a rare species at Maple Bay, and 

 while it might he captured by dredging, half a dozen specimens or 

 odd valves represent the catch for almost as many seasons. 



Volutella pyriformis Carpenter. This is a little beauty, and while 

 Taylor refers to it as a common species, I have only been fortunate 

 enough. with the exception of a tiny juv. specimen at Maple Bay, 

 to find it once, and that was at Foul Bay, near Victoria ; hen- 

 under a stone in a cavity under a large boulder, I secured a small 

 colony. 



Purpura lima Martyn. (= canaliculate, Duclos). This is the 

 only Purpura that I have taken in any of our inside coast waters 

 since leaving Victoria; there, P. crispata, Chemnitz, and saxicola, 

 Val., occurred in perhaps equal numbers with Lima: this absence 

 seems rather strange. The P. lima of Maple Bay is very common, a 

 large shell, solidly built, heavy, and sometimes brightly colored and 

 banded. 



Cerostoma foliatum Martyn. I took only two specimens of Cero- 

 stoma all the time I lived in Victoria, and those at extreme low 

 tide; at Maple Bay this is a fairly common species among the rocks 

 between tides, and juv. specimens are quite abundant. 



Eulima micans Carpenter. This species is usually only to be ob- 

 tained in our Northern waters by dredging in from ten to forty 

 fathoms, but I have met with it rarely at Maple Bay at extreme 



