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Types: Location not ascertained. 
Type Locatity: Not ascertained. Probably in Canada. 
ANIMAL, JAW, Rapura and GeNniTALiA: Unknown. 
Rance: New York to Michigan, north to Central Ontario. A 
race of the Great Lakes drainage (Canadian region) characteristic of 
the Transition and Upper Austral life zones. 
RECORDS. 
UniTep STATES. 
Micnican: Saginaw Bay (Miles); Stoney Island, Saginaw Bay, Tuscola 
Co. (Walker) ; River Rouge, Detroit, Wayne Co. (Miss Walker). 
New York: Rose Hill Cemetery, Buffalo; Fort Erie Grove, Erie Co. 
(Miss Walker). 
BritisH AMERICA. 
Ontario: Pigeon Lake, Peterborough District (Clapp). 
GEOLOGICAL DistrrBuTION: Unknown. 
Ecotocy: Not recorded. 
REMARKS: Ontariensis may be distinguished from canadensis, 
some forms of which it closely resembles, by its short, very acute spire, 
the whorls of which are very flat-sided, 2 line drawn from the periph- 
ery of the body whorl being scarcely interrupted by the convexity of the 
whorls, as is the case in canadensis. The aperture is also different, 
being triangularly ovate. It is also a smaller shell. 
In 1862 Kiister (op. cit.) placed in the synonymy of emarginata 
a shell which he called ontariensis and credited to Muhlfeldt in manu- 
script. This was said to be ovate-conic with an acuminate spire, con- 
vex whorls and a semioval aperture. It seems evident from this de- 
scription that the shell herein recorded, and which was first brought to 
the attention of the writer by Mr. Bryant Walker, is the form which 
Muhlfeldt had in mind. In the absence of types or of typical speci- 
mens for comparison, and as this distinct little form is without a name, 
it would appear quite proper to use Kiister’s name. The shells vary 
somewhat, particularly in the convexity of the whorls, which resemble 
those of emarginata in some examples. The aperture flares markedly 
in some specimens. The immature shell has a strong, twisting columel- 
lar plait, but the adult has the usual wide, flattened inner lip of the 
emarginata group. This race has been called both emarginata and cat- 
ascopium and is probably so labelled in many collections. 
Galba contracta Currier. Plate XLVI, figures 1-4. 
Limnea contracta CurriER, Kent. Sci. Inst., Mis. Pub., No. 1, 1868.—Sowe., 
Conch. Icon., XVIII, Lim., pl. 15, fig. 32 b, 1872—WatLkeEr, Journ. Conch., IT, 
p. 330, 1879; Nautilus, VI, p. 33, 1892; Rev. Moll. Mich., p. 18, 1894. 
Limnophysa contracta Currier, Kent. Sci. Inst., Pub. No. 5, p. 14, pl. 1, 
fig. 1, 1881. 
