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under this mime (though most unfortunately as var. compactum instead 

 of percrassum) that our tirst British Columbian specimens were recorded. 



Under this name (compactum) will be found a note of two speci- 

 mens, dead, found by Mr. Richardson on the beach at Victoria in 1875 

 and of one specimen, also dead, that was taken by Dr. Dawson off False 

 Head. Vancouver Island, ten years later. 



Since that date Dr. Newcombe has dredged thi-ee dead specimens 

 off Macauley's point near Victoria, and both the doctor and myself have 

 found fossil specimens in the Boulder Clay. 



B. percrassum is not uncommon, living, to the north of us. 



217. BucciNUM CYANEUM, Bruguiere. 



var. Mqerchianum, Fischer. 



Valuto/iai-jxi nKirchiaHa, Fischer, Journ. de Conch., vol. vii., p. 299 (March, 1859). 



In 1890 I received from Mr. E. S. Wilkinson, four specimens of 

 this sf)ecies, that had been picked up by him on the beach at Alert Bay, 

 Vancouver Island. One of the specimens was alive when found, the 

 other three dead. Dr. Newcombe has since found a dead specimen on 

 the shore at Victoria. 



My shells were kindly determined for me by Dr. Dall. 



CHEYSODOMUS, Swainson. 



218. Chrysodomus pornicatus, O. Fabricius, sp. 



Tritoniuinfurnicatum, O. Fab., Fauna Groenl., p. 399(1780). 



The tirst specimens of this species found here were two dead ones 

 dredged by myself outside Victoria Harbour in 1886. Dr. Newcombe 

 has since dredged a couple of living specimens in the same locality. 

 When fresh the shell is of a dark purplish brown colour, with an 

 olivaceous epidermis. 



219. Chrysodomus liratus, Martyn, sp. 



Buccinitm iifatuni, Martyn, Univ. Conch., vol. ii., no. 43, pi. xiii. and xiv., fig. 1 (1784). 

 = decenicosfatus, Midd., not Say. 

 = Middendorffi, Cooper. 



Five living specimens of this species were dredged b}' Dr. Dawson, 

 in 1885, at Freshwater Bay, near Malcolm Island, and off False Head, all 

 of which localities are in Queen Charlotte Sound, 



I have not seen living specimens from any more southerly localities, 

 but Dr. Newcombe has dredged dead specimens near Victoria. 



