70 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Mass. — Marblehead; Nahant; Province town; Vineyard Sound 

 and Buzzards Bay, 2 to 10 fathoms. 

 R. I. — Narragansett Bay. 

 Conn. — Stonington; Stratford; New Haven. 



*Venus mercenaria Linne. 



Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 686. " Pensylvania." 

 Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 133, fig. 445. 



Me. — Quahog Bay, in Casco Bay. 



Mass. — Revere ; Province town ; common south of Cape Cod. 



R. I. — Narragansett Bay; Button woods. 



Conn.^ — Common along the entire coast. 



*Venus mercenaria notata Say. 



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

 vol. 2, p. 271. " coast of the United States." Gould, Inv. 

 Mass., 1870, p. 135, fig. 446. 



Mass. — Edgartown. 



R. I. — Newport; Buttonwoods. 



Conn. — Stonington. 



Liocyma fluctuosa (Gould). 



Dall, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1902, vol. 26, p. 364. 

 Venus fluctuosa Gould, Inv. Mass., 1841, p. 87, fig. 50. " Bank 

 fisheries." 



Tapes fluctuosa Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 136, fig. 447. 



Me. — Frenchman's Bay, 35 fathoms (Blaney). 



* Gemma gemma (Totten). 



Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 137, fig. 448. 



Venus gemma Totten, Amer. Journ. Sci., 1834, ser. 1, vol. 26, 

 p. 367, pi. 1, fig. 2. " Massachusetts and Rhode Island." 



