42 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Cuspidaria (Cardiomya) perrostrata (Dall). 



Neaera ornatissima d'Orbigny var. perrostrata Dall, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., 1881, vol. 9, p. 110. [off Toktugas.] 



Cardiomya perrostrata Verrill and Bush, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 1898, vol. 20, p. 809, pi. 73, fig. 2; pi. 74, fig. 3. 



Mass.— Ofl" Marthas Vineyard, 85 to 120 fathoms. 



TELEODESMACEA. 



PLEUROPHORIDAE. 



*Cyprina islandica (Linne). 



Lamarck, Hist. Nat. Anim. sans Vert., 1818, vol. 5, p. 557. 

 Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 129, fig. 443. 



Venus islandica Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1767, vol. 1, p. 1131. 



" ISLANDIA." 



Me. — Casco Bay, 10 to 20 fathoms; Frenchman's Bay, 16 fath- 

 oms; Eastport. 



Mass. — Massachusetts Bay; off Gay Head, 19 fathoms; 

 Georges Bank, 45 fathoms. 



R. I.— Off Block Island, 29 fathoms. 



ASTARTIDAE. 

 *Astarte castanea (Say). 



Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 117, fig. 431. 



Venus castanea Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1822, ser. 1, 

 vol. 2, p. 273. " COAST OF New Jersey." 



Me. — Casco Bay; Frenchman's Bay, 25 to 30 fathoms. 

 Mass. — Massachusetts Bay; Chatham; Nantucket; Marthas 

 Vineyard. ' 



Conn. — Off New I^ondon. 



