114 THE NAUTILUS. 



In connection with this work I have endeavored to learn what 

 work has already been done on the Mollusca of Staten Island. 

 The literature is as follows: 



Wheatley, Charles M., Catalogue of the Shells of the United 

 States and their Localities, 12 pp., 1842 & 1845. 



Eleven species are here listed as coming from S. I., of which 

 Periploma leanum, Pandora gouldiana, Lyonsia hyalina and Astarte 

 castanea are mentioned as fairly common or abundant. The 

 last one I have not as yet found on the island although it is 

 found on the Long Island ocean beaches in increasing abund- 

 ance with distance from the city. 



DeKay, James E., Nat. Hist, of N. Y., Zoology of N. Y., 

 Mollusca, 271 pp., 40 pis., 1843. 



Pandora gouldiana, Pkolas truncata, Odostomia triftda, Colum- 

 bdla avara and ('. lunata are recorded from the island on the 

 authority of Wheatley. 



Hubbard, Eber ' Ward & Smith, Sanderson, Catalogue of the 

 Mollusca of Staten Island, Annals of the Lyceum of Nat. Hist, 

 of N. Y., vol. 7, pp. 151-154, 1865. 



This paper is revised in: 



Smith, S., Catalogue of the Mollusca of S. L, Nat. Sci. Ass. 

 of S. L, Proc., vol. 1, p. 35, 1886 and p. 50, 1887. 



Of the 78 species listed, Solemya velum, Yoldia limatula, Nucula 

 proxima, Venericardia horealis, Rochefortia planulata, Cardium 

 mortoni, Cumingia tellinoides, Siliqua costata, Zirfaea wispata, 

 Epitonium lineata, E. humphreymi, Triphoris per versa nlgrocincta, 

 Cerithiopsi* greenii, Bittiwn aUernatum, Columbella avara, Man- 

 gilia cerina (M. plicata not mentioned), and Acteon pundostriata 

 are the rarer species listed. Anomia aculeata, Pholas costata, 

 Martesia tmithii, Litorina irrorata, Natica pusttla, Aledrion vibex 

 and Hami.nea solitaria are of special rarity. I do not know of 

 their having been again reported from the vicinity of the city. 

 Astarte castanea is included on authority of Wheatley. The list 

 is largely based on dredgings made about the southern end of 

 the island by Hubbard whose collection was later sold to Crooke, 

 whose collection now forms part of the American Museum col- 



'The " J" in the literature is an error. 



