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Natural History 
Genus Lepton Turton 
X. rude Whiteaves. 104. 
Vic., (Dr. Hasell, C.F.N.) Comox, (V/.H.) Q.C.I., (G.M.D.) Attached, 
when living to abdominal segments of Gebia ]>ugettensis , the common “mud 
prawn.” Referred to by Stimpson in Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., Vol. VI — 
No. IV., 1857, p. 488. 
Family ASTARTIDyE 
Genus Astarte J. Sowerby 
A IZsquimalti Baird. 2, 93. 
Vic., rare, (C.F.N.) Dep. Bay, (G.W.T., C.F.N.) St. of Georgia, Dis- 
covery Passage, Johnstone St., Q.Ch.Sd. and Q.C.I., (G.M.D.) “Closely 
related to A. ( Rhectocyma) mirabilis , Dali. [E. A. Smith, 93.] 
A compacta Cpr. 13, 21, 93. 
Puget Sound, (Kennerley). A small species, apparently not taken 
recently. 
A* undata Gld. var. of 58, 62, 93. 
Vic., (G.W.T., N.H.S., C.F.N.) Dep. bay, (C.F.N.) Q.C.I., (G.M.D.) 
St of Georgia, Discovery Passage, and Johnstone St., (G.M.D.) 15 to 30 
fms. Sandy mud. 
Mr. Whiteaves, (Trans. R. S. Can., Sec. 4, Vol. IV., 1886), states that 
Dr. Dawson’s specimens from the St. of Georgia, can scarcely be separated 
from examples of a variety of A. undata , dredged in the Atlantic, off 
Prince Edward’s Island. 
Genus Miodon Cpr. 
M jiToloncjatus Cpr. 13, 16, 100. 
Vic., (C.F.N.) Vesuvius Bay, (G.W.T.) Dep. Bay, (C.F.N.) Q.C.I., 
(G.M.D.) Between tides to 20 fms. 
See Stearns, (100) pi. XVI., figs. 7 and 9, and p. 217. Also found by 
Dali in Alaska. 
Family MYTILID^E 
Genus Mytilus Linn 
M Calif omiGnus Conr. 23, 7. 
Generally distributed to Q.C.I., (G.M.D.) Very large on the West coast. 
Between tides. 
3£ edulis Linn. 
Generally distributed to Q.C.I, (G.M.D.) 
