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to which Gould’s name, caurina, more strictly applies. The shore variety 
sometimes attains a very large size, one mentioned by Dall measuring 
58 X 50 X 31 mm. I have specimens from Salt Spring Island and 
Departure Bay nearly as large. | 
LAQUEUS, Dall. 
3. LAquEus CaALtrornicus, Koch, sp. 
Terebratula Californica, Koch, Kuster’s Martini, vol. viii., pl. xxvi., figs. 21-23. 
This is not a common shell in any locality. Dall quotes its range as 
from Port Etches to Catalina Island, California, and remarks that it is 
everywhere rare, owing to its deep-water habitat. It is sometimes, how- 
ever, found in comparatively shallow water, as at Victoria, where Mr. 
Richardson, Dr. Newcombe and myself have all dredged it. It has also 
been taken within the province by Dr. Dawson, in Discovery Passage 
and Johnston Strait and at the Queen Charlotte Islands. 
British Columbian specimens are said to be smaller than Californian 
ones, and have received from Dr. Davidson, in his latest work, the 
varietal name of Vancouverensis. 
MEGERLIA, King. 
4. MeGEerLiA JEFFREYSI, Dall. 
Ismenia (2) Jeffreysi, Dall, Amer. Journ. Conch., vol. vii., p. 65, pl. xi., fig. 7-10 
(March, 1871). —- 
The only specimen that I have heard of as having been taken in 
British Columbia is the single dead shell obtained by Mr. J. Richardson 
at Victoria in 1875. 
HEMITHYRIS, D’Orbigny. 
5, HEMITHYRIS PSITTACEA, Gmelin, sp. 
Anomia psittacea, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., ed. xiii., vol. i., pt. vi., p. 3348 (1788). 
This is a common and well-known circumpolar shell, which on the 
west American coasts seems to reach its southern limit at the Straits of 
Fuca. 
Though not ‘so abundant in British Columbia as 7’. transversa or 
T. unguicula, it has been met with at Victoria by Mr. Richardson, Dr. 
Newcombe and myself, and at Discovery Passage and Johnston Strait 
by Dr. Dawson. 
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1 ** Monograph of Recent Brachiopoda,’ Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. iv., 
1886-87. 

