602 REPORT— 1863. 



maturc4y closed investigations of Pr. Kennerley are only the beginning of a 

 rich harvest. Dr. Georg-e Suckley, late assi.stant-surgeon of the U. S. army, 

 was appointed to complete the natural-history work, after his lamented 

 death. A complete list of the species collected will be found in the fifth column 

 of the Vancouver and Californian table, v. infra, par. 112. The particulars 

 of station, &c., and all the knowledge which the laborious explorer had col- 

 lected, are lost to science. It is quite possible that some of the species here 

 accredited to Puget Sound were obtained in neighbouring localities in the 

 Straits of De Fuca. The specimens are in beautifully fresh condition, and 

 of most of them the animals were preserved in alcohol. The following are the 

 shells first brought from the Vancouver district by the American N. W. 

 Boundary Commission, the diagnoses of new species being (according to 

 custom) first published in the Proceedings of the Ac. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia. 



No. 



1. Zirphcea crispafn. Two living specimens of this very characteristic Atlantic sp. 



2. Saxicava phoiadis. Several living specimens. 



3. Sji}i(Pnia uvoidea, n. s. One sp. living. 



4. Cryptornya C'aUfornica. Several living sp. 



5. Thracia curta. ()ne specimen. 



G. Mytilhneria Nuttidlii. Three sp. living at base of test of Ascidian. [The animal 

 appeared too peculiar to venture on a dissection. It has been entrusted to 

 Dr. Alcock, of the Manchester Museum.] 



7. Ne<era pectinata, n. s. One sp. liviua'. 



8. Kennerliajilosff, n. s. and n. subg. Several living specimens. 



9. Psammobia ruhruradiuta. One fresh specimen of uniform tint. 



10. Macoma (?v.) cxjmnsa. Adult broken ; young living. Belongs to a gi'onp of 



forms classed together by some writers under Icda or pruxima, but the cha- 

 racters of the hinge and mantle-bend have not yet been suthcieiitly studied. 



11. Macoma yoldifonnis, n. s. One valve. 



12. Anyuhts modestiis, u. s., but closely allied to the eastern A. tener, Say. Two 



sp. living. 

 126. Anyulus (hnodestus, var.) obtuaiis. Several fresh specimens. 



13. Clementia stibdiaphana, n. s. Very rare, living. Intermediate between Cle- 



mmtia proper and the prora group of thin Callist(e. 



14. Pseplds Li>i-di, Baird. Several living sp. from which the subg. was eliminated. 



15. Venus Kennerlyi, live. Verv rare. One sp. living. Some of the shells called 



y. astartoides by Midd. may be the young of this. 



16. Petiicola carditut'des. Several fresh specimens. 



17. Astarte (? var.) compacta. One sp. living; may hereafter be connected with A. 



cumpressa. 



18. Serripes Groenlandictis. Several young living specimens. 



19. Lncina tvmdsculpta, n. s. Two li^nng specimens, of which one had the surface 



disintegrated. 



20. Crypfndon serricntus, n. s. One living sp. 



21. KclUa Lapcrousii. A few li^•ing specimens. 



22. Kcllia suborbieidaris. A few li\ing specimens. 



23. La^ea rubra. One sp. living. 



24. Pythina ruyifera, n. s. Two liA-ing sp. Intermediat-e between Pythina and 



Kellia. 



25. TeUimya tumida, n. 8. One sp. living. 



26. Modioiaria lavigata. Two li\-ing sp. 



27. MudioUiria marmurafa. One sp. living. (A shell in the U. S. E. E. Col., 



though marked "Fiji"' in Dr. Gould's MS. list, probably came from Puget 

 Sound, being thus confirmed.) 



28. Nucula tenuis. Two sp. living*. 



29. Acila castrmsis. One sp. living. 



30. Leda fossa, Baird. One normal sp. living. 



* These species were kindlr determined by Mr. Hanley. 



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