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few specimens were dredged by the writer, off Charleton Point, Anticosti, in 

 120 fathoms, and off the East Point Lighthouse, twenty-four miles distant, 

 in 212 fathoms, in 1871 ; also between Anticosti and the Gaspe peninsula, 

 in from 200 to 220 fathoms, in 1873. Rev. Canon Norman regards T. sep- 

 tentrionalis as only a variety of T. caput serpeniis, and the supposed " thin, 

 silvery fibrous epidermis " of the former, as a " hispid coating of sponge."* 



Terebratalia Spitzbergensis (Davidson). 



Terehratella Spitzbergensis, Davidson (1852). 

 Waldhcimia cranium, Willis (1863) ; non Mtillpr, sp. 

 Terebratalia Spitzbergensis, Beecher (1895). 



St. Margaret's Bay (about twenty-five miles west of Halifax), N.S., one 

 specimen, the Waldheimia cranium of Willis' list, t In the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, T. Spitzbergensis has been dredged, but always sparingly, by the 

 writer, off Perce, in Gasp^ Bay, off Cape Gaspe, Cap des Rosiers, Charleton 

 Point, Anticosti, and other places, in from 30 to 120 fathoms; and by Sir 

 J. W. Dawson, at Murray Bay, in from 20 to 25 fathoms. The species 

 seems to be circumpolar, as it has been taken also at Greenland, Spitzbergen, 

 the Shetlands, and northern Japan. In Canada, it has been found fossil in 

 the Leda clay at Riviere du Loup. 



Terebratella Labradorensis (Sowerby). 



Terebratula Labradorensis, Sowerby. 

 Terebratella Labradorensis, Davidson. 



" In the British Museum, from Labrador. C. Goodsir " (Sowerby). "Stimp- 

 son, Fisher}^ Banks, rare " (Willis). " Type in British Museum, species 

 requiring more investigation (Davidson, 1880). Sowerby's figure of this 

 species represents a ^mall terebratuloid shell, witli a large foramen to the 

 ventral, and the dorsal radially plicate. In the writer's judgment, its 

 occurrence on the Labrador and Nova Scotian coast needs confirmation. 



Dall, in a recent letter to the writer, says : " I have never seen it, and 

 suspect it was a very young specimen of the very variable T. caurina, Gould 

 { = T. transversa, Sowerby). "Anyhow I should reject it as N.E. American." 

 Terebratella Frielei, Davidson, has been recorded by Jeffreys as occurring 

 near Halifax, in 1,340 fathoms, but that locality is obviously too far from 

 land to come within the limits of this paper). 



* In Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series Six, vol. xii., pp. 441-442. 



t "In a MS. of Stimpson's in my possession he notes that Willis' W. cranium is a var. 

 of T. Spitzbergensis, from examination of Willis' specimen." Dall, in letter dated March 20> 

 1901. 



