recent shells. 4s9 
Class the ninth, ANNULATAS 
The two first orders have animals without shells (we have 
a few of those.) Testaceous animals commence in De Las 
mircks third order: Fhot 
ANNULATA SEDENTARIA. 
Amruirrirea, third family- 
Sabellaria. 
“Tubes many, composed of sand and fragments of shells 
aggregated into a common mass.” 
‘Animal Subcylindrical, with three rows on each side of 
shining palew, mouth fissure shaped placed below the exterior 
palea:’’ 
Sabellaria =? “Tubes brittle, summits jagged, orifices 
large rather angular, 
This shell is met with abeut 100 miles below Quebec, co- 
vering other shells &c. Of the species [am uncertain, De 
Lamarck says there are several, he describes but two; this 
does not appear to be either of them. The tubes are very 
loosely cemented together, white, thin and, semitranslucent: 
In the tenth class Crarirepa, none have as yet been dis- 
covered here, nor do | know whether any of them inhabit 
this country, there probably may be some in, or near the 
gulf: 
The eleventh class affords us several gencra. 
First order CONCHIFERA BIMUSCULOSA. 
Sorenacea, third family. 
The following genus inhabits Rimouski, but having only 
metwith animperfect specimen, the species could not be fixed. 
Solen{ Shell bivalve, equivalve, elongated, gaping at Loth 
ends, beaks small, cardinal teeth small, sometimes none, 
ligament external near the hinge. 
Myacra, fourth family. 
Mya. ‘Shell gaping at both ends, ligament short, internal ; 
one lange perpendicular Cooth on one valve, a pit on the other. 
Animal 
