[I'^^LOK] MARINE MOLLUSCA 83 



KATICA, Lamarck. 



292. Natica clausa, Broderip and Sowerby. 



Zool. Jonrn.. vol. iv., pt. 15, p. :^72 (1829) ; and Zool. Voy. Blossom, p. 136, pi. xxxiv 

 lis:. :i and pi. xxxvil., fig. (i (18:^9). 



Not a very common species but found in nearly all localities in 

 which dredging has been carried on. 



Most of my specimens were dredged in about twenty fathoms in 

 Departure Bay. The adult shell is nearly unicolorous, but the youn- 

 are prettily marked with dark stripes. Dr. Newcombe has found thi*^ 

 species fossil in the boulder clay. 



LUNATIA. Gray. 

 293. LuNATiA Lewisii, Gould, sp. 



Natica Leu-f^li Gould. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. ii., p. 239 (.July, 1847) ; and 

 L. b. l^xpl. Exped., Mollusca, p. 211, %. 253 and 253a (1852).' 



Common at and above low water mark, burrowing in the sand as the 

 tide recedes. The annular egg ribbons of this species are frequently 

 seen on the beaches and are very puzzling to those who are unacquainted 

 with their true nature. 



294. LuNATiA PALLIDA, Broderip and Sowerby, sp. 



Natica pallida, Br. & Sby., Zool. Journ., vol. iv., pt. 15, p. 372 (1829) ; and Zool. Voy. 

 Blossom, p. 13(i, pi. xxxiv, fig. 15 (1839). 

 = L. caurina and L. soluta, Gould. 



Not rare in ten to forty fathoms at Victoria and Departure Bay 

 Dr. Newcombe records it from Comox, and Dr. Dawson from Queen 

 Charlotte Sound. This species may easily be distinguished from the 

 young of i. Lewisii, by the shape of the whorls and by its much smaller 

 umbilicus. 



LAMELLAEIA, Montagu. 



295. Lamellaria Stearnsii, Dall. 



Amer. .Journ. Conch., vol. vii, p. 122, pi. xv., figs. 2, 3 and (i (Novnnber, 1871). 

 == L. flepressa, Dall, MS. 18B(i. 



I have only two notes of the occurrence of this shell in our waters. 

 One dead specimen Avas dredged in Houston-Stewart Channel (Q. C. I.) 

 m fifteen to twenty fVithoms by Dr. Dawson in 1878, and a second ex- 

 ample was obtained by Dr. Newcombe in Clayoquot Sound last summer. 

 The original (type) specimens were found dead on the beach at Monterey. 



