942 PROCEEDTXaS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvi. 



ASTARTE GLOBOSA Moller, 1842. 



East and Wost (Tn'onliiiid, and adjacent Arctic waters, in 10 to 150 

 fathoms. 



Small, bhmt, ^ entricose, yellow brown, the anterior end longer, 

 rounded, the posterior end subtruncate, the surface closely, tinely, con- 

 centrically silicate all over. The species was identified as conipressa 

 bv ]\ro<d)ius, iST-t, and Jetfreys called it eompre.s.s(/ variety stri'ifa. It 

 is one of tliree or four related forms fairly recognizable which have 

 been usually "lumped*' under one name. Nothing- which can be 

 properly identified with th(^ British ^1. eoiiqyi'ema is known from 

 American waters. 



ASTARTE FABULA Reeve, 1855. 



Fi-anz Josef Land to Greenland and adjacent Arctic waters in 12 to 

 IHi fathoms. Also in the Polar Sea. near Bering Strait. 



A thin elongate-ovate, inflated species, with the posterior end 

 slightly longer, the umbonal region peculiarly, squarely, concentricall}" 

 sulcate, and the l)asal portion striated. The color is usually dark 

 bi'own. It was descrilied l)y Sowerljy in lST-1, as ^1. )<emillrata, and 

 has frequently been identified as ^4. haiiJi'xii^ but it is not A. hanJi'sli 

 of Leach. 



ASTARTE PULCHELLA Jonas, 1845. 



Hogarth Sound, Cumberland Lilet, and adjacent Arctic waters, also 

 Novaia Zemlia, in 5 to 10 fathoms. 



Ovate, thin, polished; evenly, concentrically, elegantly sulcate, with 

 narrow lanceolate lunule; the color light brown, and the beaks nearly 

 central. It is the A. inarhami Hancock, 1846. 



ASTARTE BANKSII Leach, 1819. 



Baffin's Bay and adjacent waters to lat. 80'^ N., also Spitsbergen, 

 in 12 to 60 fathoms. 



Mr. E. A. Smith has shown that the numerals of the figures of 

 striata and ha/dsil, Leach, in Beechej^'s Zoology of the Voyage of 

 the Blossom, are exchanged and the figure formerly referred to .striata 

 represents JkoiI-hU and vice versa. This confusion runs through much 

 of the literature. Specimens of ^^^1. JmiuIsH, which is a nearly smooth 

 species of a reddish brown or olivaceous tint, were labeled covtjrressa 

 variet}^ striata hy Jeffreys. 



ASTARTE STRIATA Leach, 1819. 



Baffin's Bay, Davis Strait, and adjacent waters, and south to the 

 Grand Banks, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and Massachusetts Ba}-, in 

 10 to 85 fathoms. 



Subtrigonal, with somewhat coarseh^ sulcate umbonal region, the 



