258 A. E. Verrill — 3Iollusca of the New England Coast. 



Length, 3""" ; greatest diameter, -8""". Some specimens are more 

 slender tlian the ones measured. 



No additional specimens have been taken since those already 

 recorded from the collections of 1880 and 1881. 



Mytilimeria lieXUOSa Verrill and Smitli, MSS. 



Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci., xxii, p. 306, 1881 ; xxiv, p. 3C5, 1882; these Transac- 

 tions, vol. V, p. 567, pi. 58, fig. 38, 1882. 



The animal of this shell, in alcohol, has a small and short anal 

 tube, surrounded by small papillae, and a very much larger incurrent 

 orifice, occupying a ventral position and surrounded by numerous 

 long and large tentacle-like papillae; the orifice for the foot is small; 

 the edge of the mantle is bordered by very small papillae There is 

 a slender, translucent byssus. The hinge-ligament is strengthened 

 by a distinct ossicle, placed lengthwise, more or less ovate in form, 

 with the smaller end next to the hinge-teeth, and somewhat trun- 

 cated. 



Additional specimens were taken at station 1093, in 349 fathoms, 

 1882 (two living), and at station 2079, in 75 fathoms, 1883 (one 

 large dead shell). 



Pecchiolia gemma Verriii. 



These Transactions, vol. v, p. 565, 1882. 



Plate XXX, figures 7. 8. 

 Ossicle longitudinal, with the posterior end broadest and notched 

 in the middle, the narrower anterior end truncated. 



Three additional specimens of this species were taken at station 

 1(»9;4, in 349 fathoms, 1882 ; living specimens were also taken in 1883 

 at stations 207() and 2078, in 906 and 499 fathoms; and dead valves 

 at station 2077, in 1255 fathoms; station 2084, in 1290 fathoms; 

 and station 2079, in 75 fathoms. 



Venericardia granulata Say. 



Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., vol. iv, p. 142, pi. 12, fif?. 1, 1824. 

 Cardita granulata Conrad, Fossils of the Medial Tertiary of the U. S., p. 12, ])1. 7, 



fig. 1, 1838. 

 Cardita borealis Conrad, Amer. Mar. Conch., p. 39. pi. 8, fig. 1, 1831. 



Gould, Invert. Mass;, Binney's edition, p. 146, fig. 455. 



A direct comparison of fossil specimens from the Miocene of Vir- 

 ginia with a large series of recent specimens from various localities 

 alorig our coast, both northern and southern, sIioavs that the fossil 



