76 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



R. I. 



Conn. — New Haven. 



Siliqua squama (Blainville). 



Solecurtus squama Blainville, Diet, des Sci. Nat., 1827, vol. 49, 

 p. 419. " Terre-Neuve." 



Machaera squama Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 46, fig. 369. 



Not unfrequently taken from the stomachs of codfish caught at 

 the Banks and sometimes off our shores (Gould). 



MACTRIDAE. 



*Spisula (Hemimactra) solidissima (Dillwjoi). 



Dall, Nautilus, 1894, vol. 8, p. 26. 



Mactra solidissima DillwjTi, Cat. Recent Shells, 1817, vol. 1, 

 p. 140. "North America." Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 73, 

 fig. 387. 



Me. to Conn. — The Common Beach Clam or Hen Clam. 



Spisula (Hemimactra) solidissima similis (Say). 



Mactra similis Say, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1822, ser.l, 

 vol. 2, p. 309. " coast of the United States." 



Mass. — Provincetown. 



R. I.. 



Conn. 



*Spisula (Hemimactra) polynyma (Stimpson). 



Mactra polynyma Stimpson, Smithson. Misc. Coll., 1860, vol. 2, 

 art. 6, no. 3, p. 3. 



Mactra ovalis Gould, Inv. Mass., 1841, p. 53, fig. 32 {non Sowerby, 

 1817). Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 75, fig. 388. 



Me. — Casco Bay; Frenchman's Bay; Eastport; Penobscot 

 Bay. 



Mass. — Massachusetts Bay; Georges Bank. 



