13O WHITEAVES ON MARINE INVEETEBEATA, ETC., 



MESALIA RETICULATA, Mighcls. (=Turritella lactea, Moller, and Mesalia ladeola, Carpenter.) 

 Dredged rather abundantly, living, in the Strait of Georgia at station No. 5, in 

 Discovery Passage at station No. 8, in Johnstone Strait at station No. 10, in 

 Queen Charlotte Sound at stations Nos. 12, 13, 14 and 1*7, and in Quatsino Sound 

 at station No. 20. 



>BiTTlUM FILOSUM, Gould. Common, living, at low tide, in Malaspina Inlet, Strait of 

 Georgia ; in Discovery Passage, between Seymour Narrows and Elk Harbour ; in 

 Johnstone Strait, the Goletas Channel, and Queen Charlotte and Quatsino Sounds. 



BITTIUM MUNITUM. (= Cerithiopsis munita, Carpenter.) Queen Charlotte Sound at station 

 No. 12, ten fine and mostly living specimens. The writer is indebted to Mr. "W. 

 H. Dall for the suggestion that this shell is probably a Bittium rather than a 

 Cerithiopsis, and that the Cerithiopsis columna of Dr. Carpenter is only an abnormal 

 form of it. 



/ LITTORINA SITCHANA, Philippi. A common littoral species throughout the district. A few 

 specimens of it were dredged in Discovery Passage, at station No. 7. The late Dr. 

 Jeffreys regarded this shell as only a local variety of the European L. rudis. 



/ LITTORINA SCUTULATA, Gould. With the preceding species, but apparently not quite so 

 common. 



LACUNA SOLIDULA, Loven. (=L. carinata, Gould.) A few living specimens were taken at 

 or near low water in Alert Bay, B. C., and it was dredged living, but in very small 

 numbers, in Discovery Passage at station No. 8, and in Queen Charlotte Sound at 

 stations Nos. 12 and 15. Dr. Jeffreys was of the opinion that this shell is a variety 

 of L. divaricata, Fabricius (=L. vincta, Montagu), of northern Europe. 



JBARLEEIA SUBTENUIS, Carpenter. Queen Charlotte Sound at station No. 12, one living 

 specimen. 



J3UROULA PERVERSA, Gabb. Queen Charlotte Sound at station No. 16, one large, living 

 specimen, an inch and three-quarters in length, and another small but living shell ; 

 and station No. 17, an immature but living specimen. 



This large and remarkable species, which is invariably sinistral, was previously 

 dredged alive by Mr. James Richardson in from thirty to seventy fathoms in the 

 Strait of Georgia. In the young state the test is nearly smooth and covered by a 

 very pale, greenish-grey epidermis, and the body whorl is encircled by two spiral 

 bands of a faint reddish-brown tint, one next to the suture and the other a little 

 below the middle. 



x BELA FIDICULA, Gould. Johnstone Strait at station No. 10, four specimens ; Queen 

 Charlotte Sound at stations Nos. 14 and 16, one living specimen at the first, and 

 two full-grown, living shells at the second. 



' BELA TABULATA. (=Mangelia tabulata, Carpenter.) Queen Charlotte Sound at station 

 No. 16, two specimens. Perhaps only a variety of the last named species. 



VIOLACEA, Mighels, var. (Teste Dall.) Queen Charlotte Sound at station No. 14, one 

 living specimen. 



