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Bela impressa, Beck. 



A specimen which has been identified with this species by Jeffreys in 

 1870, and by Verrill and Miss Bush in ]898 or 1899, was dredged by the 

 writer off Grande Greve, Gaspe Bay, in 1867 or 1869. 



Bela pleurotomaria (Couthouy). 



Fusu.i pleurotomarius, Couthouy (1838). 

 Fusus rufus, Gould (1841) ; non Montagu. 

 Mangdia pi/ramidaiis, Stinipsou (1851). 

 Bela pleurotonmria, H. and A. Adams (1858). 



Bay of Fundy, in 15 to 80 fathoms; and Halifax Harbour, in 20 to 25 

 fathoms (Verrill, who says that the species is found off Martha's Vineyard 

 to Labrador). Fishing banks off Sable Island (Willis). Betjveen Cape 

 Bear, P.E.T., and Pictou Island, N.S. (Whiteaves). Gulf and mouth of the 

 River St. Lawrence, at Gaspe Bay, Riviere du Loup, Murray Bay, and 

 Kamouraska (Sir J. W. Dawson) ; and at Salmon B*ay, near Caribou Island 

 (Packard). Labrador coast, at Square Island, in 30 fathoms, and Sandwich 

 Bay, in 4 fathoms (Packard) ; at L'Anse au Loup, in 10 to 15 fathoms; 

 Henley Harbour, in 10 to 15 fathoms; Temple Bay, in 10 fathoms; and 

 Dead Island, near Square Island, in 1 to 4 fathoms ; Stearns expedition, 

 (Miss Bush). 



Fossil in the Leda clay at Montreal (Sir J. W. Dawson). 



Bela bicarinata (Couthouy). 



Pleurotomaria bicarinata, Couthouy (1839). 

 Bela bicarinata, G. O. Sars (1878). 



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ariety violacea (Mighels and Adams). 



Pleurotoma violacea, Mighels and Adams (1841). 

 Bela violacea, H. and A. Adams (1858). 



Throughout the whole region, but apparently i-ather sparingly distributed. 

 Verrill says that this species ranges from Cape Cod to Labrador, from low- 

 water mark to 100 fathoms, and that he dredged both forms in Eastport 

 harbour and the Bay of I'undy, in 10 to 50 fathoms, in 1864, 1868 and 1870. 

 Willis records the occurrence of the var. violacea on the fishino- banks off 

 Sable Island ; and Smith and Harger dredged the same variety on the Le 

 Have Bank, in 45 fathoms, on the U. S. Fish Commission SS. Bache in 

 1872. Both forms were taken by the U. S. Fish Commission parties in 

 1877, in Halifax Harbour, in 16 to 33 fathoms; and the Gloucester fisher- 

 men have brought it in from the banks off Nova Scotia (Verrill). In the 

 Gulf and mouth of the River St. Lawrence, both forms have been dredf^ed 



