12O WHITEAVES ON MARINE INVERTEBRATA, ETC., 



S NUCULA (AoiLA) LYALLI, Baird. Strait of Georgia at station No 9, Johnstone Strait at 

 stations Nos. 9 and 10, and Queen Charlotte and Quatsino Sounds at stations Nos. 

 12, 14, 17 and 20. Taken more or less plentifully and living at each of these 

 localities, in from ten to thirty fathoms. 



^-NucuLA TENUIS (Montagu), var. LUCIDA, Gould. Johnstone Strait at station No. 9, several 

 living specimens. Quatsino Sound at station No. 20, abundant, living but small. 



/PECTUNCULUS SUBOBSOLETUS. (=Axinaa subobsoleta, Carpenter.) Discovery Passage at 

 station No. 7, two living specimens. Queen Charlotte Sound at station No. 14, three 

 living shells, and at station No. 15, ten living specimens. North or north-west coast 

 of Vancouver Island, between Nahwitti Bar and Quatsino Sound, at low water, 

 one living shell. 



,/CRENELLA DECUSSATA, Montagu. Strait of G-eorgia at station No. 5, two living examples of 

 an unusually large form of the species. Queen Charlotte Sound at station No. 12, 

 three living specimens, of the same size ; and station No. 14, four specimens of the 

 usual size and one (living) which measures, length, twelve mm., height, eleven 

 mm., and maximum thickness, seven mm and a half. 



MODIOLARIA LJEVIGATA, Gray. Port Neville, on the mainland of British Columbia, near 

 Johnstone Strait, at low water, one living specimen associated with Saxicava rugosa. 



x NIGRA, Gray. Strait of Georgia at station No. 5, Discovery Passage at sta- 



tion No. 7, and Queen Charlotte Sound, at stations Nos. 14 and 16, a few immature 

 living specimens at each of these localities. 



. MODIOLA MODIOLTJS, L. Johnstone Strait at station No. 10, six half-grown, living shells, 

 with a simply bearded epidermis. Queen Charlotte Sound at stations Nos. 11, 12, 

 14, 16 and 18, a few living, but for the most part, very young specimens at each. 

 The species usually lives in the crevices of rocks, or between or on stones. 



/ MYTILUS EDULIS, L. A few specimens of the fry of this very common and ubiquitous 

 species occur in dredgings in the Strait of Georgia, at station No. 5. 



MYTILUS CALIFORNIANUS, Conrad. Low water at Galiano Island, in the Strait of Georgia, 

 and dredged at station No. 11, in Queen Charlotte Sound. 



KELLIA LAPEBOTJSEI, Deshayes. Low tide, entrance to Malaspina Inlet ; one fine and adult 

 living specimen, which measures twenty-five mm. (or just one inch) in length by 

 twenty mm. in height, and a few smaller ones. 



r KELLIA LAPEROUSEI, var. CHIRONII, Carpenter. Strait of Georgia, at low water, one living 

 shell ; and Johnstone Strait, also at low water, seven living specimens. 



.DIPLODONTA ORBELLA, Gould. Entrance to Malaspiua Inlet at low water, three adult 

 living specimens ; also north or north-west coast of Vancouver Island, between 

 Nahwitti Bar and Quatsino Sound, at low water, one adult and living shell. 



/CRYPTODON FLEXUOSUS, L. Strait of Georgia at station No. 2, four large and perfect 

 specimens ; and Quatsino Sound at station No. 20, two equally perfect specimens. 





