185 

 in each of the collections made at Port Burwell and Ashe Inlet, Hudson 



Strait, by Dr. Bell in 1884. x. -di • + 



Sir J W. Dawson says that it is " much more plentiful in the Pleistocene 

 beds" of eastern Canada, than as a living shell, and that in a fossil state it 

 has been found at St. John, etc., N.B.; at Riviere du Loup, Labrador and 

 Greenland. 



BucciNUM ciLiATUM (Fabricius). 



Tritonium ciliatiim, O. Fabricius (1780) ; teste Stimpson and VerriU. 



Buccinum ciliatum, MoUer (1842). 



Buccinum ciliatum, Gould (1841 and 1870) ; in part only, not 

 the figures (VerriU). 

 " Dr Stimpson mentions a specimen from Nova Scotia received from Mr. 

 J R Willis, but the collection of Mr. Willis was largely derived from the 

 bank fisheries, and his specimen may have come from the Grand Bant 

 (VerriU ; op. cit., pp. 498 and 499). Jeffreys has identified with this species 

 a specimen dredged by the writer in 1871, north of the Island of A-ticosti 

 in 112 fathoms; and Sir J. W. Dawson says that he has collected recent 

 specimens of B. cUiatim, off Little M^tis, at Riviere du Loup and Murray 

 Bay Miss Bush also includes the name of this species in her "Catalogue ot 

 the Mollusca and Echinodermata dredged on the coast of Labrador by the 

 Stearns expedition," and says that " this species was found in 3 to 8 fathoms 



at Henley Harbour." u "P f 



Sir J. W. Dawson records B. ciliatum as having been found fossil in ttie fost- 



Pliocene deposits at Riviere du Loup and Montreal. 



According to Stimpson "the appressed form of the shell, narrow, some- 

 what canaliculated aperture, and the tooth on the columella, are its prominent 

 characters."* 



Buccinum Gouldii, VerriU. ♦ 



Buccinum ciliatum (pars) Gould, 1841, fig. 209 ; and 1870, fig. 635? 

 Buccinum Humphrcysianum, Stimpson (1865) ; non Bennett. 

 Buccinum Gouh.lii, Verrill (1882). 

 "This name is proposed, provisionally, for the shell figured by Gould 

 (ed 1) and described as B. Humphrey siamcm by Dr. Stimpson. It diflFers 

 from the European species, of that name, as already mentioned by Jeffreys 

 and others, in having a ciliated epidermis and in other characters. 



"This shell is remarkable for its swollen, rounded whorls, the deep 

 excavation of the columella-lip, the anterior expansion of the rounded outer 

 lip and the thinness and nearly smooth surface of the shell. 



'<This shell may, perhaps, prove to be only a variety of some previously 

 known species. In that ca se Gouldii may still be used as a variety name, 

 i Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, New Series, vol. ii., p. 374. 



