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yet been found fossil, though the three former at least live in the gulf 

 of St. Lawrenee.* 



Cardinm ))iiiiiii/titnm, Conrad. 



Fossil— Leda clay ; Lawlor's Lake and St. John, N.B. (Matthew). 

 Recent— Oulf St. Lawrence, and coast of Nova Scotia and New 

 England. 



Cardinm Ii/atidicion. Linn. 



B^ossil— Rivit-'re-du-Loup; Murray Ray; Saguenay; Little Metis ; 

 Vancouver Island ((i. M. D.) ; Portland, Maine ; Lawlor's Lake, N.B. ; 

 (ireenhuid (Mdllfir). 



Recent -Riviere-du- Loup ; Little Metis; from (Jreenland to New 

 England. 



Our fossil specimens are mostly small, and similar to the northern 

 variety or sub-species named l)y Stimpson C. Ifay^tii, and which also 

 occurs living as far south as Nova Scotia, and seems to be tiie C. ciliatnm 

 of B'abricius. Decorticated specimens are not distinguishable from 

 C. Dtut'souii oi Stimpson, from the Pleistocene of Hudson's Ray; of 

 which I have seen only specimens in this state. 



Cardium {Scrri/icx) 0'rn-iifiiii(licnm. Ciiemnitz. 



Fossil— Leda clay and boulder-clay, (Quebec ; Riviere-du-Loup ; 

 Murray Bay; Lawlor's Lake, &c., N.B. (Matthew); New Riciimond ; 

 Restigouclio ; Bathurst (I'atsley) ; Cape Elizal)eth, Maine; Labrador 

 (Packard) ; (ireenland (Mdllor) ; Chaudiore Station. 



Recent — Little Metis; (iaspo ; Oulf St. Lawrence, sometimes of 

 large size ; Arctic seas, and Greenland to Cape Cod. 



This shell is somewhat rare and of small size in the Post-pliocene, 

 and has not yet Ijeen found higher up tlie St. Lawrence than Quebec. 

 Specimens of good size occur at Portland. 



Kellia Snhorhicuhiris. Mont. 

 Black Point, N.B. (Matthew). 



* Astarte quadrttiis, Could, has been dredged, living, off Esquimaux 

 point, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence. Axfarfe crenutu. Gray, 

 and a small form of A. rrehricostate, Forbes (= A, lens, Stimpson), 

 have been dredged in 200 to 300 fathoms between Anticosti and the 

 south shore. The form of .1. iindala, Gould, which comes closest to 

 A. sidcata, is abundant, living, in Northumberland straits and 

 between Cape Breton and Prince Edward I land. J. F.W. A. castanea 

 occurs in Minas basin, Bay of Fundy. 



