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88. Maooma inquinata, Deshaycs. 



I'roc. Zool. Soc. London, 1S54, p. M57. 

 Very coniinon : set.- iioto under lust si>ecies. 



89. Macoma edentula, Broderip und Sowerby, s)). 



Tellina t'llrnhda, Br. and Shy., Zool. .lour., vol. iv., pt. 15, p. 3(5:^ (1«2'J). 



This is the name 1 apply to a Macoma that I have not infrequently 

 dredged at Nanaimo (but always dead), and which I have also found 

 living in sand between tides at Cordova Bay. 



It bears some resemblance to a very large variety of M. inconspicua, 

 and possibly the large specimens from False Head, Vancouver Island, 

 recorded by Mr. Whiteaves as M. inconspicua, may prove to be the pre- 

 sent species. 



Call's tigure of his Macoma Middendorffi (= edentula. Middendortf, 

 not Brod. and Sby.) Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum, 1886, pi. iv., tig. ll.^ is 

 Avonderfully like some specimens of our shell. 



1)0. Macoma lata, G-melin, sp. 



Trllinit lata, Gniel., Sy.st. Nat., ed. xiii., vol. i., pt. 6, p. ^237. (17SS). 

 = T. calcarea, Chemnitz. 1782. (Not binomial). 

 = T sabulosa, Spengler. 1798. 

 ^ 7'. proxima. Brown. Etc., etc. 



This form is quite ditterent to the one last named. I have found 

 it (dead) wherever I have dredged, and it is a not uncommon fossil in 

 the Leda clay. Dr. Dawson obtained living specimens by dredging at 

 Dixon Entrance in 111 fathoms, and in Quatsino Sound in shallower 

 water. 



Mr. Whiteaves adopts the speciHc name sabulosa in his tirst report 

 and calcarea in his second. As before mentioned (under Serripes Grcen- 

 landicus), Chemnitz in volume vi. of the Conchylien Cabinet is not 

 binomial, and therefore his name should not be used, and Spengler's 

 name is ante-dated by the appropriate one of Gmelin. 



1 In this paper, which is entitled •' Supplementary notes on some species of 

 MoUusks of the Behring Sea and vicinity," Dr. Dall has interesting notes on several 

 of our species besides the Macoma e,lcntula, muuely ■.Mangiha levidensis, Brla- 

 Hcnlpiurata, Admetc Conthonyi, Trophon muriviformU (= Dalhi), T. orpheu.s, ^ 

 fenuUcvlpius and Alva,,ia castanea. Also excellent figures of M. Mrddendort^ 

 (see above), B sctdpturata, T. Dalli and A. castanea. Dr. Dall has previously 

 called attention to M. edentula in a paper in the same Proceedings, vol. v,.., IsM. 

 I). Ml. 



