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A. E. Yerrill — Catalogue of Marine Mollasca. 
it from B. cyaneum and all the other species of our coast. In the 
form of the aperture and columella it resembles B. cyaneum. 
I have named this interesting shell in honor of Mr. Sanderson 
Smith, of theU. S. Fish Commission parties, during these explorations. 
Buccinum cyaneum Brug. 
Buccinum cyaneum Bruguiere, Encyc. Meth., Vers., i, 266, 1792, (t. Stimp , Jeffreys.) 
Beck, in Moller, Kroyer’s Tidsskrift, iv, 81, 1842. 
Reeve, Conch. Icon., iii, Buc., ix, p. 69, 1846, (t. Stimp , JefTr.) 
Buccinum boreale Leach, Jour, de Phys., etc., Ixxxviii, p. 464, 1819, (t. Stimp.) 
Gray, Zool. of Beechey’s Voy., p. 128, 1839, (t. Stimp., Jeffreys). 
Brod. and Sow., Zool. Journ., iv, p. 375, 1829. 
Buccinum cyaneum Stnnpson, Review Northern Buccinums, Canadian Nat., ii, p. 
[19], Oct., 1865. 
Yerrill, Amer. Journ. Sci., xvi, p. 210, 1878; Proc. Nat. Mus., iii, p. 371, 1880. 
Buccinum sericatum Hancock, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. [1], xviii, p. 328, pi. 5, fig. 
6, 1846, (t. Stimp., Jeffr.) 
Buccinum tenebrosum Hancock, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. [1], xviii, p. 327, 1846, 
(t. Stimpson), (non Moller). 
Triionium gronlandicum Morch, in Rink’s Gronland, Tillseg, Aftr., 84, 1857 (t. 
Stimp., Jeffr.) 
Buccinum gronlandicum G. 0. Sars, Mollusca Reg. Arctic* Norvegi*, p. 259, pi. 13, 
figs. 9, 9a, pi. 25, figs. 1, 2, pi. x, fig. 11, a-b (dentition), 1878, (non Stimpson). 
Jeffreys, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Apr., 1876, p. 323 (animal described); North- 
ern Species of Buccinum, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, vi, p. 424, Dec., 1880. 
Friele, Catal. Norweg. Nordm. Exp. Spitzb. Moll., p. 278, pi. 7, figs. 1-7 (dentition). 
Variety, Perdix, or Finmarchianum. 
Tritonium gronlandicum , var. perdix (Beck) Morch, Faun. Moll. Island!*, p. 211, 
1868. 
Tritonium gronlandicum , var. glabra Morch, Cat. Moll. Spitzberg, p. 14 (description), 
1869. 
Buccinum finmarchianum Yerkruzeu ; G. 0. Sars, Mollusca Reg. Arctic* Norvegi*, 
p. 262, pi. 13, fig. 10, pi. 25, figs. 3, 4, pi. x, fig. 12 (dentition), 1878. 
Buccinum gronlandicum, var. finmarchianum Jeffreys, op. ult. cit., p. 424, 1880. 
Plate XLIII. figure 5. Plate LVIII, figure 11. 
This species was dredged by us in the summer of 1877, on the U. S. 
Fish Com. steamer “Speedwell,” off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, in 82 
to 91 fathoms, fine, compact sand, where it was common, and off 
Halifax, in 100 fathoms. In 1879, we also took it about 15 miles east 
from Cape Cod, in 70 to 90 fathoms. This was the first instance of 
its occurrence on the New England coast. It was taken on Le 
Have Bank, in 45 fathoms, by Messrs. S. I. Smith and O. Ilarger, on 
the “ Bache,” in 1872. It has often been brought in from the banks 
