256 'i'HE ICE a(;e in Canada. 



iimlulatum, and on the other resembling B. Orn^nlnndlcitm, it has 

 received many names. It is believed to l)e B. borcdle of Leach, and 

 Orivnlandicum of Morch. It is a very characteristic northern form. 

 (See Hgure, I'lale I.) 



Buccinmn Oranhtndicum. Chemnitz. 



Fossil— Leda clay and boulder clay, Montreal; 8t. Nicholas; 

 Kivir-re-du-Loup ; 'rattagoucho River (Paisley). 



Kecent — (ireenland ; Alaska? (Dall) ; Little Metis; Murray Bay. 

 Specimens from Morch are identical with our fossils. This species is 

 prol)ably the B. undntuin. of Fabricius. It is allied to B. cynneum, 

 and may possibly pass into it. li mi\y ha B. angrdosnm (Gray). (See 

 figure, Plate I.) 



Buccinmn temte. Gray. 



Fossil — Riviere-du-Loup, not uncommon; St. John, kc, N.B. 

 (Matthew^ ; (ireenhnid (Hayes) ; Labrador (Packard). 



Recent — Little Metis; Murray Hay ; (iaspe ; Labrador (Packard); 

 Alaska (Dall) ; Arctic seas generally. A common arctic species, and 

 now living in the Gulf, though much more plentiful in the Pleistocene 

 beds. (See figure, Plate I.) 



Buccinnm ciliatum. Fabricius. 



Fossil — Montreal ; Riviere-du-Loup. 



Recent — Murray Ray; Little Metis, Riviere-du-Loup; (ireenland 

 (Fabricius) ; Nova Scotia (Willis) ; Alaska (Dall). 



This is the original B. ciliatum of Fabricius, and has been recog- 

 nized as such by Dr. Stimpson. It is easily distinguished by its 

 narrow Nassa-like mouth, armed with a tooth on the front of the pillar 

 lip. It varies much in colour, especially in the longitudinal ril)s. The 

 variety found at Montreal is only slightly ribbed. That at Riviere-du- 

 Loup is more distinctly ribbed, thus resembling the recent specimens 

 from Murr.ay Ray. It is quite distinct from B. ciliatum ((lould), whicli 

 is very near the smoother varieties of B. undulatum. As it is a rare 

 and little known sliell, I liave figured two extreme varieties, a fossil 

 specimen from Montreal and a recent from Murray Ray. I submitted 

 specimens of this shell to the late Mr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys in 1876, and 

 after comparison with the type in Copenluigen he agrees with me in 

 referring them to Fabricius' species. He says it is the species figured 

 \,y Reeve as B. Moelleri. 



