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Stimpson, that Miss Bush figures on Plate ix. of the sixth volume of 

 Proceedings of the XJ. S. National Museum, Under the heading of B. 

 plectrum, too, Sir J. W. Dawson expressed the opinion that only five of 

 the Buccinums found living in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the coast of 

 the Maritime Provinces, or in the Pleistocene deposits of eastern Canada, 

 viz., B. undatuin (undulatuni), B. cyaneum {Groenlandicwm, auct.), B. tenue, 

 B. ciliatum, and B. glaciale, are probably entitled to rank as "distinct specific 

 types." 



BucciNUM DoNOVANi, Gray. 



Buccinum glaciale, Donovan (1799) ; Gray (1824) ; and Brown (1827) ; 



but not B. glaciale, L. (1758). 

 Buccinum Donorani Gray (1839) ; et auct. 

 Buccinum tubulosum. Reeve (1847). 

 Tritonium Donovani, Morch (1857). 



Oft Little Metis (Sir J. W. Dawson) ; Banks of Newfoundland (Stimp- 

 son) ; Henley Harbour, Chateau Bay, Labrador, at low-water and 15 fathoms, 

 Stearns expedition (Miss Bush); Greenland (Morch). 



" The B. Donovani is a species of very recent origin and has not, I believe, 

 been found anywhere in a fossil state. It differs from B. glaciale in its 

 elongated form, more convex whorls, more concave columellar lip, and more 

 convex spiral ridges. The uncarinated variety may be distinguished from 

 B. undatum by the character of the spii-al grooving, the distinction between 

 the primary and secondary grooves being far more strongly marked than in 

 that species. The BtcGcinum Donovbrni in Mr. Bell's list of the shells of the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence is the Fusus Kroyeri of Moeller " * (Stimpson, 1865). 



Neptunea despecta, var. tornata, Gould. 



Fusus tornatus, Gould (1839, 1841 and 1870). 

 Neptunea despecta (L. ) forma ti/pica, G. O. Sars (1878). 

 NepUmea despecta, var. tornata, Verrill (1882). 



Gulf of St. Lawrence north of the Bale des Chaleurs, and mouth of the 

 River St. Lawrence, in from 10 to 60 fathoms. The writer has di'edged this 

 species sparingly on the Orphan Bank and in Gaspd Bay ; Bell has obtained it 

 near St. Anne and at Rimouski Village ; Sir J. W. Dawson has dredged many 

 large specimens off Little Metis; Verrill, a ''large dead shell," at the 

 Mingan Islands ; and Packard, " a large specimen tenanted by a hermit 

 crab," on the north shore of the Gulf, off Caribou Island, just inside of the 

 Strait of Belle Isle. 



This variety of iV. despecta has been found fossil in Pleistocene deposits 

 at New Richmond, River Charles, &c., N.B. ; at Riviere du Loup, Murray 

 Bay, Quebec, and Montreal, P.Q. ; and at Labrador. 



* Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, New Series, vol. ii, p. 370. 



