[taylok] marine MOU.USCA 91 



compai'ed speciiiieiis from Victona with Mr. Smith's tj-pc of Vancouver- 

 ensis. in the Xatural History Museum (South Kensington), and found 

 them to agree in every partieuhir. 



319. SoLARiELLA I'ERAMABiLis, Carpeutor. 



Rept. Brit. Assoc, Wili, p. (io:^( Aujiust, lSf>4): and Proc. C.il. Acad. Sci., vol. iii.. Min. 



This rare shell was tirst found at Catalina Island, Califoi-nia. hy 

 Dr. Cooper. In our province six tine living specimens were dredged 

 by Dr. Dawson otf False Head, Vancouver Island, in thirty fathoms, and 

 one dead shell, in fair condi1i«Mi. was dredged hy myself in Departure Hay 

 in 1888. 



o20. Sol ARi ELLA ciDARis. rari)enter,, sp. 



Mnniarita cidarlsiA. Ads.)Cpr.. Rept. Brit. A.ssoc. 186:^ p. 6.53 (August, \HM) : and 

 Ann. Mau'. Nat. Hist., series 3, vol. xiv., p. 42H (December, 1864). 



Until 1885 this beautiful species was known only by the unique 

 type specimens collected by Swan in Puget Sound. In that year Dr. 

 Dawson dredged a splendid series of twenty-two specimens — in Forward 

 Bay, (eighteen specimens) otf False Head, (two specimens) and in t^uat- 

 sino Sound (two specimens). 



This shell has since been obtained b}' the U.S. Fish Commission in 

 San Pedro Bay. 



• Mr. Whiteaves lias a note on this species and two excellent tigures 

 of the largest of Dr. Dawsons specimens, in the " Ottawa Naturalist " for 

 December, i893 (vol. vii., ]i. 135). 



HALIOTIS, Linne. 



321. Haliotis kamtschatkana, .lonas. 



Zeilsclir. f. Mai., 1S4.5, p. UW. 



Not uncommon on boulders at low-water mark on our northern and 

 northwestern coasts. The animal is used as food, bj' the Indians, and the 

 shell for ornamental purposes. Dr. Pilsbry in his " ^Eanual " places H. 

 Kamtschat/iana at> a variety of H. gigantea. Chemnitz (Japan). 



PUNCTUIIELLA, IJ. T. Lowe. 



322. PUNCTLIRELLA CI CULLATA. (lould. Sp. 



Bitnit/a rurullatn. Could, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. ii., p. 1.59(August. ls4()i : 

 and U.S. Ex})l. K.xped., Mollusca, p. :«iS, fijj;. 47.i-47oc (1852). 



323. I'lincturella galeata, (Jould.sp. 



Bhiiuld yalcnta, Gould, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. ii., p. lo'J (Aug\ist. 1S4(>) ; 

 and IT.S. Expl. Kxped., Mollusca, p. 369, pi. xxxi., fisf. 476-476a (lS.=i2). 



