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Vermilia serrula. Stimpson. 



Fossil Riviere-du-Loup, on shells. 



Recent Gulf St. Lawrence. It is quite likely the Greenland species 

 identified by Fabricius with Serpula triquetra. 



SpiocJicBtopterus typus. Sars. 

 Fossil Labrador (Packard). 

 Recent Labrador (Packard) ; Norway (Sars). 



Spirorbis glomerata (Stimpsoni, Verrill). Muller. 



Fossil Riviere-du-Loup; Little Metis; Labrador (Packard) ; Green- 

 land (Fabr.) ; Gaspe. This species is Spirorbis Stimpsoni of Verrill, 

 being regarded by him as distinct and new. 



Spirorbis vitrea. Fabricius. 



Fossil Montreal ; Quebec ; Riviere-du-Loup ; Murray Bay. Very 

 common on stones and shells. 



Recent Little Metis ; Greenland (Fabricius) ; Gulf St. Lawrence. 



Spirorbis boreal/is. Daudin. 



Fossil Riviere-du-Loup, on shells. 



Recent Gulf St. Lawrence ; Greenland (Fabricius). 



Spirorbis lucidus. Fleming. 



Fossil Riviere-du-Loup, on the inside of shells. 



Recent Gulf St. Lawrence ; Fishing Banks, American Coast 

 <Gould). 



Spirorbis carinata. Montague. 



Fossil Riviere-du-Loup, on shells. 



This is a Spirorbis with one carina, found also in the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, and possibly the same with the 8. contortuplicata of 

 Fabricius from Greenland ; Little Metis. 



The beautiful Spirorbis cancellata of Fabricius, so common in the 

 modern Gulf of St. Lawrence, and also in Greenland, has not yet been 

 found in the Pleistocene. 



Nereis pelagica. Linn. 



Fossil Green's Creek (collection of Mr. J. Stewart, Ot f awa, and 

 J.W. D.) 



The specimens are in the nodules from this locality. They resemble 

 at first sight whitish strips of calcareous matter about four inches in 

 length and scarcely two lines in breadth. This strip of calcite is a 



