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\n<:LUTIXA, Fleming. 

 296. \'elltina laevigata (Linn.) Auct. 



Tliis shell has long gone under the above name but, asmany author?* 

 have pointed out, it cannot be the Helix Laevigata of Linne [Syst. Nat., 

 ed. xii., vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 1250, no. 709 (1761)] the description oi" which i& 

 quite inapplicable to our shell. Jeffreys (Erit. Conch., vol. iv., p. 242) 

 retainsthe familiar name but quotes Pennant (Jirit. Zool., vol. iv., p. 1-lU, 

 \>\. Ixxxvi., tig. 139) as the authority, his description and figure being 

 in accord with the shell in question. 



Several American conchologisis have used the name haliotoides, O. 

 Fab., but though the species under consideration is no doubt the halio- 

 toides of Fabricius, it is not the haliotoides of Miiller or of Linne, both 

 earlier in date than Fabricius. (.Teffreys.) 



V. Icevigata, \i' ^ve n\ay L-ontiwne for the present to call it by this 

 name, is not uncommon, attached to stones and shells dredged in ten to 

 thirty fathoms. It has been found at Victoria, Departure Bay, Comox, 

 ('layoquot Sound (Dr. Newcombe) and Discovery Passage (Dr. Dawson.) 



297. Velitina proeongata, Carpenter. 



Kept. Brit. Assoc., 1S(W, p. (i(il (August, 1864); and Ann. Mag. Nat. }list., scrit-.s :i, 

 vol. XV., p. 32 (.January, 18t)o). 



This is a rare species. (*arpenter described it as rare in Swan's 

 collection and since that time it has only been found in British Colum- 

 bia b}' Dr. Newcombe, who took some very large specimens between 

 tides at Victoria and Avho has found others at the roots of Macrocystis at 

 Clayoquot Sound. 



V. prolongata has been found, according to Dr. Dall, both to the 

 north and to the south of us, from Sitka to Monterey. 



ACMJ^:A, Eschscholtz. 



298. AcjNi^A patina, Eschscholtz. 



Zool. Atlas, pt. .5. p. 19, pi. .x.xiv, tigs. 7, S (1S33). 



Those who wish information as to the rather extensive synonym}' 

 of this and other west coa.st limpets are referred to the papers of Drs. 

 Carpenter ^ and Dall - in the American .lournal of Conchology ; of Dr. 

 Dall ^ in the ' Proceedings of the L^nited States National Museum,' and of 

 Dr Pilsbry in volume xiii. of the Manual of Conchology. 



' "On the Acmafidtie of the Vancouver and Californian province " Amer. .Jourii. 

 Conch., vol. ii, pp. 832-348 (186(i). 



-' " On the Limpets ; with speci.vl reference to the species of the west coast of 

 America, and to a more natural classification of the group." Amer. Journ. Concli., 

 vol. vi., pp. 227-282, pi. xiv. to xvii. (1870). 



' " Report on the Limpets and Chitons of the Alaskan and Arctic regions with 

 <lescriptions of genera and species believed to be new." Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., I, 

 pp. 281-344, .5 plates (1878), 



