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specimen, which I have seen, is not an Gdalina, but may belong to the 
last named species of -Wacoma. 
CUMINGIA, Sowerby. 
96. CumineiA CALIFORNICA, Conrad. 
Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. vii., pt. 2, p. 234, pl. xvii., fig. 12 (1887). 
This species is included in our list on the strength of Mr. Whiteaves’s 
record (in the Ottawa Naturalist for December, 1893) of a single speci- 
men collected by Professor Macoun in 1887 at Barclay Sound. 
SEMELE, Schumacher. 
97. SEMELE RUBROPICTA, Dall. 
Amer. Jour. Conch., vol. vii., p. 144, pl. xiv., fig. 10 (November, 1871). 
This is the shell that Californian conchologists, following Carpenter, 
called S. rubrolineata, Conrad, but Dr. Dall, believing, as Dr. Carpenter 
himself suspected, that it is not the species intended by Conrad, has re- 
described it, with an excellent figure, in the American Journal of 
Conchology, loc. cit. 
The shell is by no means common, but has been found, dead, at 
Victoria and Departure Bay, and, by Dr. Newcombe, at Clayoquot. 
SILIQUA, Muhlfeldt. 
98. SILIQUA PATULA, Dixon, sp. 
Solen patulus, Dixon, Voyage, etc., p. 355, fig. 2 (1789). 
This fine species is more common on the west and north than on 
the east coast of Vancouver Island, though both Dr. Newcombe and 
myself have dredged young specimens near Victoria. 
Dr. Dawson found this shell dead on the beach at Masset and Rose 
Point, Queen Charlotte Islands, and Dr. Newcombe procured fine living 
specimens in the sands, between tides, at Clayoquot. I have received 
these shells also from other points on the west Vancouver coast. 
I have not heard of this species being sold or used for food in this 
province, but the first discoverers of the shells, Captain Dixon’s crew, 
are said to have preferred them to the cockles, C. Muttalli, that abounded 
in the same locality. 
SOLEN, Linne. 
99. SoLEN SICARIUS, Gould, 
Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. iii., p. 214 (May, 1850); and U.S. Expl. Exped., 
Mollusea, p. 387, fig. 501-501b (1852). 
Generally distributed, but not easy to obtain, as it lives buried 
rather deeply in sand below low water-mark, and is consequently seldom 
