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state, while recent specimens are so rare. Owing to the long- 

 siphons, this animal burrows deep and so is rarely brought 

 up alive by a dredge; this probably accounts for the rarity. 

 We have one large, beautiful specimen dredged by a scollop 

 fisherman outside of the Porcupine Islands, and we dredged 

 many young embedded in blue clay, the best spot being D 130, 

 in 239 feet of water. Reported off Casco Bay, 115 fathoms; 

 Eastport, 40 fathoms ; Georges Bank, Grand Manan, Halifax, 

 Gaspe. No Canadian specimens dredged alive. 



SCAPHOPODA 

 SOLENCONCHAE 



Dentalidae 

 Dentalium Linne 



D. ENTALis Linne, 1758, Syst. Nat. (Z>. striolatum Stimpson, 

 1851, Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. ; Entalis striolata Gould, 1870, 

 Inv. Mass., p. 266, fig. 528.) A widely distributed form 

 where there is grit of some kind in the mud. Stations : D 14, 

 27, 58, 62, 64, 65, 94, 99, 100, 103, 105, 106, 144. Reported 

 from Eastport southward to Massachusetts Bay. Abundant 

 on southern coast of New Brunswick, Annapolis Basin, Nova 

 Scotia. 



D. occiDENTALE Stimpsou. {D. dentate Gould, 1841, Inv. 

 Mass. ; D. Occident ate Stimpson, 1851, Shells of New England ; 

 Pilsbry and Sharp, 1897, ^[anual Conch. Ser. 1, vol. 17, p. 47, 

 pi. 13, figs. 9-11 ; pi. 9, figs. 41-43. Blaney reports a few dead 

 shells. Reported from Eastport, Casco Bay, Massachusetts 

 Bay, Gulf of St. Lawrence, especially around Anticosti 

 Island; Nova Scotia. 



