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identified with B. harpularia by Professor Verrill. In the writer's judg- 

 ment, also, most if not all of the specimens referred to £. harpularia by Sir 

 J. W. Dawson, in his list of Pleistocene fossils in the " Canadian Ice Age," 

 are the shell now called B. cmcellata, var. Canadensis, by Professor Verrill 

 and Miss Bush. 



Bela rosea, Sars. 



Bela harpularia, var. rosea, G. O. Sars (1878). 

 Bela rosea, Verrill (1882). 



" Halifax Harbour, 15 to 20 fathoms ; off Halifax, nine miles, 57 fathoms ; 

 U.S. Fish Commission, 1877" (Verrill, who, however, regards it, with ^. 

 elegans and B. angulosa, as species that are " still doubtful "). Forteau Bay, 

 20 fathoms ; L'Anse au Loup, 10 fathoms; Henley Harbour, 10 to 15 

 fathoms; Temple Bay, 10 fathoms ; and Dead Island, near Square Island, 

 Labrador, 2 to 4 fathoms ; Stearns expedition (Miss Bush). 



Bela angulosa, Sars. 



" From Principal J. W. Dawson I have received a shell dredged by him 

 off Metis, mouth of the St. Lawrence River, which agrees very closely with 

 Sars' description and figure of this species" (Verrill, 1882 ; op. cit., p. 486). 



Bela Gouldii, Verrill. 



? Bela rugulata, G. O. Sars (1878) ; non Reeve. 

 Bela rugulata, Verrill (1880). 

 Bela Gouldii, Verrill (1882). 



" Taken by the U.S. Fish Commission at Halifax Harbour and Bedford 

 Basin, in 16 to 41 fathoms, 1877. " I have seen no specimen from further 

 north" (Verrill, 1882; op. cit., p. 466). Quite recently, however. Pro- 

 fessor Verrill has recognized a single specimen of a variety of B. Gouldii, 

 among specimens dredged by the writer off Grande Greve, Gaspe Bay, in 

 1867. 



Bela Pingelii (Moller). 



Defrancia Piwiclii, Moller (1842). 



Bela Pingelii, H. and A. Adams (1858) ; G. O. Sars 1878 ; et auct. 



" One specimen was dredged by Messrs. S. I. Smith and O. Harger, of 

 the United States Fish Commission, in 1872, on Le Have Bank, off Nova 

 Scotia, in 45 fathoms." "It appears to be a very rare species, however, and 

 none of my specimens have the animals preserved " (Verrill, 1882 ; op. 

 cit., p. 465y. The occurrence of this species in Canadian waters, on the 

 authority of Jeffreys, had previously been recorded in the Canadian 



