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specimen, which I have seen, is not an (Edalina. but may belong to th^ 

 last named species of Macoma. 



CUMINCtIA. Sowerby. 



96. CuMiNGiA Californica, Conrad. 



.Itmin. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. vii., pt. t, \). 284, pi. xvii., fig. 12 (is:i7>. 



This Species is included in our list on the strength of Mr. AVhiteaves's 

 record (in the Ottawa Naturalist for December, 1893) of a single speci- 

 men collected by Professor Macoun in 1887 at Barclay Sound. 



8EMELE, Schumacher. 



97. Semele rubropicta, Dall. 

 Ainer. .Jour. Conch., vol. vii., p. 144, pi. xiv., tig. 10 (November, 1871). 



This is the shell that Californian conchologists, following Carpenter, 

 called S. rubrolineata, Conrad, but Dr. Dall, believing, as Dr. Carpenter 

 himself suspected, that it is not the species intended by Conrad, has re- 

 described it, with an excellent figure, in the American Journal of 

 Conchology, loc. cit. 



The shell is by no means common, but has been found, dead, at 

 Victoria and Dejjarture Bay, and, by Dr. Newcoml>e, at Clayoquot. 



SILIQUA, Muhlfeldt. 



98. SiLiQUA PATULA, Dixon, sp. 

 So/en 2}atulufi, Dixon, Voyage, etc., p. 355, tig. 2 (1789). 



This tine species is moi'c common on the west and north than on 

 the east coast of Vancouver Island, though both Dr. Newcombe and 

 myself have dredged young specimens near Victoria. 



Dr. Dawson found this shell dead on the beach at Masset and Eose 

 Point, Queen Charlotte Islands, and Dr. Newcombe procured tine living- 

 specimens in the sands, between tides, at Clayoquot. I have received 

 these shells also from other points on the west Vancouver coast. 



I have not heard of this species being sold or used for food in this 

 province, but the first discoverers of the shells, Captain Dixon's crew, 

 are said to have preferred them to the cockles, C. NuttalU, that abounded 

 in the same locality. 



SOLEN, Linne. 



99. SoLEN sicARius, Gould. 



Pror. Bust. Sue. Xat. Hi.st., vol. iii., p. 214 (May, 1850); and U.S. Expl. Kxped.. 

 MoUusca, p, 387, lig. .501-5011) (1852). 



Generally distributed, but not easy to obtain, as it lives l)uried 

 rather deeply m sand below low water-mark, and is consequently seldom 



