20 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Area (Bathyarca) pectunculoides crenulata Verrill. 



Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad., 1882, vol. 5, p. 575. "off Martha's 

 Vineyard." 



]Mass.— Off Marthas Vineyard, 85 to 120 fathoms. 



Area (Bathyarca) anomala (Verrill and Bush). 



Bathyarca anomala Verrill and Bush, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. , 

 1898, vol. 20, p. 844, pi. 77, fig. 8. " off Cashes Ledge, [Gulf 

 OF Maine]." 



Me. — Off Cashes Ledge, Gulf of Maine, 27 fathoms. 



PTERIID.AE. 

 Pteria hirundo vitrea (Reeve). 



Dall, Trans. Wagner Free Inst. Sci., 1898, vol. 3, pt. 4, p. 670. 



Avicula vitrea Reeve, Conch. Icon., Avicula, 1857, vol. 10, pi. 18, 

 fig. 68. " West Indies." 



Avicula hirundo var. nitida Verrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 

 vol. 3, p. 402; Trans. Conn. Acad., 1882, vol. 5, p. 582, pi. 58, fig. 43. 



Mass. — South of Marthas Vineyard; found in considerable 

 numbers adhering to hydroids, in 65 to 192 fathoms (Verrill). 



OSTREIDAE. 



*Ostrea virginica Gmelin. 



The Oyster. 



Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1790, vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 3336. " Oceano 



AMERICANO ET INDICO." 



Ostrea virginiana Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 202. Brooks, The 

 Oyster, Baltimore, ed. 2, 1905. 



Ostrea borealis Lamarck, Hist. Nat. Anim. sans Vert., 1819, vol. 

 6, pt. 1, p. 204. 



