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88. Macoma INQUuINATA, Deshayes. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1854, p. 357, 
Very common ; see note under last species. 
89. Macoma EDENTULA, Broderip and Sowerby, sp. 
Tellina edentula, Br. and Sby., Zool, Jour., vol. iv., pt. 15, p. 363 (1829). 
This is the name I apply to a Macoma that I have not infrequently 
dredged at Nanaimo (but always dead), and which I have also found 
living in sand between tides at Cordova Bay. | 
It bears some resemblance to a very large variety of A. inconspicua, 
and possibly the large specimens from False Head, Vancouver Island, 
recorded by Mr, Whiteaves as M. inconspicua, may prove to be the pre- 
sent species. 
Dall’s figure of his Macoma Middendorji (= edentula, Middendortt, 
not Brod. and Sby.) Proc. U.S. Nat. Museum, 1886, pl. iv. fig. 11,' is 
wonderfully like some specimens of our shell. 
90. MacomMa LATA, Gmelin, sp. 
Tellina lata, Gmel., Syst. Nat., ed. xiii., vol. i., pt. 6, p. 3237. (1788). 
= T. calcarvea, Chemnitz. 1782. (Not binomial). 
T sabulosa, Spengler. 1798. 
T. proxima, Brown. Ete., ete. 
This form is quite different to the one last named. I have found 
it (dead) wherever I have dredged, and it is a not uncommon fossil in 
the Leda clay. Dr, Dawson obtained living specimens by dredging at 
Dixon Entrance in 111 fathoms, and in Quatsino Sound in shallower 
water. 
Mr. Whiteaves adopts the specific name sabulosa in his first report 
and calcarea in his second. As before mentioned (under Serripes Gren- 
landicus), Chemnitz in volume vi. of the Conchylien Cabinet is not 
binomial, and therefore his name should not be used, and Spengler’s 
name is ante-dated by the appropriate one of Gmelin. 

‘In this paper, which is entitled “‘Supplementary notes on some species of 
Mollusks of the Behring Sea and vicinity,” Dr. Dall has interesting notes on several 
of our species besides the Macoma edentula, namely :—Mangilia levidensis, Bela- 
sculpturata, Admete Conthonyi, Trophon muriciformis (— Dallii), T. orpheus, T. 
tenuisculplus and Alvania castanea. Also excellent figures of M. Middendorfji 
(see above), B. sculpturata, T. Dalli and A. castanea. Dr. Dall has previously 
called attention to M. edentula in a paper in the same Proceedings, vol. vii., 1884, 
p. 347. 
