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SiPHO OsaiANi (Friele). 



Neptunea Ossiani, Friele (1879) ; by typ. error Ossiania. 

 Sipho Osstani, Verrill (1882). 



A specimen, which Professor Verrill has identified with this species, was 

 dredged at Murray Bay by Sir J. W. Dawson, and is now in the Kedpath 

 Museum at Montreal. The only other specimen of this shell that has been 

 recorded from American waters, " was obtained near the Grand Bank in 180 

 fathoms and presented to the U. S. Fish Commission by Capt. McCormick 

 and crew, schooner Wachusett of the Gloucester fishing fleet" (Verrill). 



Sipho pubescens, Verrill. 



Neptunea propinqua, Verrill (1878) ; non Alder. 

 Neptunea {Sipho) propinqua, Verrill (1880). 

 Sipho pubescens, Verrill (1882). 



" Off" Cape Sable, N.S., in 88 to 91 fathoms, fine compact sand, where it 

 occurs in considerable numbers, living ; and off Halifax, 42 fathoms, dead"; 

 U. S. Fish Commission S.S. Speedwell, 1877 (Verrill). North shore of the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence, off Egg Island (between Pointe des Monts and Seven 

 Island Bay) in 70--80 fathoms, sandy mud, one adult living specimen, dredged 

 by the writer in 1871. 



Sipho pygm^us (Gould). 



Fustis Tslandicus, var. ppgmceus, Gould (1841). 



Tritonium pygvi(£um, Stimpson (1851). 



Neptunea (Sipho) pygmcea, H. and A. Adams (1858). 



Fusus pygmceus, Gould (1870). 



Neptunea (Neptunclla) pygmcea, Verrill (1873). 



Sipho pygmceus, Verrill (1882). 



Bay of Fundy, Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, and Gulf of St. Lawrence 

 as far to the northward at least as Gaspe Bay, where the writer has dredged 

 it, living, in about 30 fathoms. The species is common on the New England 

 coast, and according to Verrill, its bathy metrical rangfe is from low- water to 

 430 fathoms. 



Sipho Spitzbergensis (Reeve). 



Fnstis Spitzbergensis, Reeve (1855). 

 Neptunea (Sipho) terebralis, Gould (1860). 

 Sipho lividusli'MoTch.) Verrill (1883). 

 Chrysodomus Spitzbergensis, Dall (1886). 



A few living specimens of this shell were dredged by the writer in Gaspe 

 Bay in 1871 ; in 60 fathoms ofi Bonaventure Island, in 1872 ; and on the 



