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under this name (though most unfortunately as var. compactum instead 
of percrassum) that our first British Columbian specimens were recorded. 
Under this name (compactum) will be found a note of two speci- 
mens, dead, found by Mr. Richardson on the beach at Victoria in 1875 
and of one specimen, also dead, that was taken by Dr. Dawson off False 
Head, Vancouver Island, ten years later. 
Since that date Dr. Newcombe has dredged three dead specimens 
off Macauley’s point near Victoria, and both the doctor and myself have 
found fossil specimens in the Boulder Clay. 
B. percrassum is not uncommon, living, to the north of us. 
217. BuccINUM cYANEUM, Bruguière. 
var. MQERCHIANUM, Fischer. 
Votutoharpa merchiana, Fischer, Journ. de Conch., vol. vii., p. 299 (March, 1859). 
In 1890 I received from Mr. E. S. Wilkinson, four specimens of 
this species, that had been picked up by him on the beach at Alert Bay, 
Vancouver Island. One of the specimens was alive when found, the 
other three dead. Dr. Newcombe has since found a dead specimen on 
the shore at Victoria. 
My shells were kindly determined for me by Dr. Dall. 
CHRYSODOMUS, Swainson. 
218. CHRYSODOMUS FORNICATUS, O. Fabricius, sp. 
Tritonium fornicatum, O. Fab., Fauna Greenl., p. 399 (1780). 
The first specimens of this species found here were two dead ones 
dredged by myself outside Victoria Harbour in 1886. Dr. Newcombe 
has since dredged a couple of living specimens in the same locality. 
When fresh the shell is of a dark purplish brown colour, with an 
olivaceous epidermis. à 
219, Curysopomus LIRATUS, Martyn, sp. 
Buccinum liratum, Martyn, Univ. Conch., vol. ii., no. 43, pl. xiii. and xiv., fig. 1 (1784). 
= decemcostatus, Midd., not Say. 
— Middendorffi, Cooper. 
Five living specimens of this species were dredged by Dr. Dawson, 
in 1885, at Freshwater Bay, near Malcolm Island, and off False Head, all 
of which localities are in Queen Charlotte Sound. 
I have not seen living specimens from any more southerly localities, 
but Dr. Newcombe has dredged dead specimens near Victoria. 
