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Naturalist and Geologist for March, 1870. The specimen sent to Dr. 

 Jeffreys was dredged by the writer off Grande Greve, Gasp^ Bay, in 

 1867 or 1869. 



Bel A CANCELLATA (Mighels). 



Fusus cancellatus, Mighels (1841). 



Bela cancellata, Stimpson (1860) ; and Gould (1870) ; but not of G. O. Sars. 



Grand Manan, dredged alive in 25 fathoms, shelly bottom, off Duck 

 Island (Stimpson). Bay of Fundy ; off Nova Scotia ; and Square Island, 

 Labrador, — sent by Dr. A. S. Packard, jr., as B. Vahlii, B. cancellata, and 

 B. pi/ramidalis (Verrill, 1882 ; op. cit., p. 476). 



Bela cancellata, var Canadensis, Verrill and Bush, M.S. 



Specimens that Professor V^errill and Miss Bush have recently identified 

 with this variety of B. cancellata, were dredged by the writer between Pictou 

 Island and Cape Bear, and by Sir J. W. Dawson at Little Metis and Murray 

 Bay. Some of these specimens are fully an inch in length. Similar speci- 

 mens appear to have been referred to B. harpularia by Sir J. W. Dawson in 

 his list of Pleistocene fossils in the Canadian Ice Age. Under that name 

 this shell is cited as occurring also (recent) at Riviere du Loup and Kamou- 

 raska ; and (fossil) at River Charles, &c., N.B. ; Riviere du Loup, Murray 

 Bay, Quebec, Montreal ; and Labrador. 



Professor Verrill states that B. scalaris is the largest species of Bela on 

 the coast of New England, but in the Gulf and mouth of the River St. 

 Lawrence B. cancellata, var. Canadensis, and B. nohilis (as recently identified 

 by Verrill and Miss Bush) are by far the largest species known to the 

 writer. 



Bela Sarsii, Verrill. 



Bela cancellata, G. O. Sars, (1878) ; non Mighels. 

 Bela Sarsii, Verrill (1880). 



"Several specimens dredged at Forteau Bay, 20 fathoms, L'Anse au Loup, 

 10 to 15 fathoms, have been directly compared with shells from Tromso sent 

 by Dr. Friele from the museum at Bergen. This is a rare species on the 

 American coast, having been rarely found before, except at Murray Bay, 

 Canada," by Sir J. W. Dawson (Miss Bush, in list of the mollusca, etc., of the 

 Stearns exploring expedition). 



