492 A, E. Verrill— Catalogue of Marine Mollusca. 
it from B. eyanewm and all the other species of our coast. In the 
form of the aperture and columella it resembles B. eyaneum. 
I have named this interesting shell in honor of Mr. Sanderson 
Smith, of the U.S. Fish Commission parties, during these explorations. 
Buccinum cyaneum Brig. 
Buecinum cyaneum Bruguiére, Eneye. Meth., Vers., i, 266, 1792, (t. Stimp., Jeffreys.) 
Beck, in Moller, Kréyer’s Tidsskrift, iv, 84, 1842. 
Reeve, Conch. Icon., iii, Bue., ix, p. 69, 1846, (t. Stimp , Jeffr.) 
Buecinum bereale Leach, Jour. de Phys, ete., lxxxviii, p. 464, 1819, (t. Stimp.) 
Gray, Zool. of Beechey’s Voy., p. 128, 1839, (t. Stimp., Jeffreys). 
Brod. and Sow., Zool. Journ,, iv, p. 375, 1829. 
Buccinum cyaneum Stimpson, Review Northern Buccinums, Canadian Nat., ii, p. 
[19], Oct., 1865. 
Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci., xvi, p. 210, 1878; Proce. Nat. Mus., iii, p. 371, 1 
Buccinum sericatum Hancock, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. [1], xviii, p. 328, pl. 
6, 1846, (t. Stimp., Jeffr.) 
Buceinum tenebrosum Hancock, Ann, and Mag. Nat. Hist. [1], xviii, p. 327, 1846, 
(t. Stimpson), (nen Moller). 
Tritontum grénlandicum Moreh, in Rink’s Grénland, Tilleg, Aftr., 84, 1857 (t 
Stimp., Jeffr.) 
Buectnum groniandicum G. O. Sars, Mollusca Reg. Arctic Norvegie, p. 259, pl. 13, 
figs. 9, 9a, pl. 25, figs. 1, 2, pl. x, fig. 11, a-b (dentition), 1878, (men Stimpson). 
Jeffreys, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Apr., 1876, p. 323 (animal described); North- 
ern Species of Buccinum, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.. vi, p. 424, Dee., 1880. 
Friele, Catal. Norweg. Nordm. Exp. Spitzb. Moll., p. 278, pl. 7, figs. 1-7 (dentition). 
Variety, Perdix, or Finmarchianum. 
Tritontum grénlandicum, var. perdix (Beck) Mérch, Faun. Moll. Islandiw, p. 211, 
1868. 
Tritonium grénlandicum, var. glabra Mérch, Cat. Moll. Spitzberg, p. 14 (description), 
1869. 
Buecinum finmarchianum Verkruzen ; G. 0. Sars, Mollusea Reg. Arctic Norvegiv, 
p. 262, pl. 13, fig. 10, pl. 25, figs. 3, 4, pl. x, fig. 12 (dentition), 1878. 
Buecinum gréniandicum, var. finmarchianum Jeffreys, op. ult. cit., p. 424, 1880. 
Puate XLII, rreurs 5. Puate LVI, rigure 11. 
This species was dredged by us in the summer of 1877, on the U.S. 
Fish. Com. steamer ‘“* Speedwell,” off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, in 82 
to 91 fathems, fine, compact sand, where it was common, and off 
Halifax, in 100 fathoms. In 1879, we also took it about 15 miles east 
from Cape Cod, in 70 to 90 fathoms. Tifis was the first instance of 
its occurrence on the New England coast. It was taken on Le 
Have Bank, in 45 fathoms, by Messrs. 8. I. Smith and O. Harger, on 
the “ Bache,” in 1872. It has often been brought in from the banks 
