[645] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. B51 
of the last whorl, but these are frequently absent. Length of a rather 
large specimen, 17"; breadth, 7™™; length of an average specimen, 
13""; breadth, 5" ; length of a slender specimen, 15" ; breadth, 5", 
ASTYRIS LUNATA Dall. Plate XXI, fig. 110. (p. 306.) 
Proceedings Boston Soc. Natural History, vol. xiii, p. 242, 1870. Nassa lunata Say , 
Journal Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, vol. v, p. 213, 1826. Buccinum 
lunatum Adams, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. ii, p. 226; Gould, Invert. of 
Mass., ed i., p. 312, fig. 196. Columbella lunata Gould, op. cit., ed. ii, p. 359, 
fig. 629. Fusus Trumbulli Gould, Amer. Journ. Science, vol. vi, p. 235, fig. 7, 
1848, (non Linsley). Buccinum Wheatleyi Dekay, Nat. Hist. of New York, 
Mollusea, p. 132, Plate 7, fig. 162, 1843. Columbella Gouldiana Ag. MSS.; Stimp- 
son, Shells of New England, p. 48, 1851; Smith, Annals Lyceum Nat. Hist. 
of New York, vol. viii, p. 398, fig. 5, 1865. Astyris “limata Say” and A. 
“Turnbulliit Linsl.,” H. and A. Adams, Genera, vol. i, p. 187 (typographical 
errors). 
Massachusetts Bay to Northern Florida and the northern shores of 
the Gulf of Mexico; local and not abundant north of Cape Cod, at Prov- 
incetown, Nahant, and Swampscott, Massachusetts. Very abundant in 
Vineyard Sound, from low-water to 10 fathoms; and in Long Island 
Sound; Great South Bay, Long Island; and Great Egg Harbor, New 
Jersey; Fort Macon, North Carolina, and southward. Estella Pass, 
Florida (Jewett) ; Georgia (Couper). 
Fossilin the Post-Pliocene deposits of South Carolina; and at Gardiner’s 
Island, New York (S. Smith); and inthe Pliocene of South Carolina. 
The color-variety, separated by several writers as C. Gouldiana, is 
identical with the Wheatleyi of Dekay. 
ASTYRIS ZONALIS Verrill. Plate X XI, fig. 111. (p. 399.) 
Bucecinum zonalis Linsley, American Journal of Science, ser. i, vol. xlviii, p. 2&5, 
1845 (no description); Gould, Amer. Journ. Science, series ii, vol. vi, p. 236, 
fig. 8, 1848. Columbella dissimilis Stimpson, Proceedings Boston Soc. Nat. 
History, vol. iv, p.114, 1851; Shellsof New England, p. 47,1851; Gould, Invert. 
of Mass., ed. ii, p. 358, fig. 628. ; 
Long Island Sound, near New Haven; Vineyard Sound; Casco Bay ; 
Eastport, Maine, 10 to 60 fathoms. Grand Menan, New Brunswick, 
in 8 fathoms, sand, (Stimpson). Stonington (Linsley). 
ASTYRIS ROSACEA H. and A. Adams. (p. 508.) 
Genera of Recent Mollusca, vol. i, p. 187, 1858. Buccinum rosaceum Gould, Ameri- 
can Journal of Science, xxxviii, p. 197, 1840; Invert. of Mass., ed. i, p. 311, 
fig. 195, 1841. Columbella rosacea Stimpson, Shells of New England, p. 47, 
1851; Gould, Invert. of Mass., ed.ii, p. 257, fig. 627. (?)Fusus Holbdllit 
Moller, Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, vol. iv, p. 88, 1842. 
East of Block Island, 29 fathoms, fine sandy mud; Stonington, Con- 
necticut (Linsley); Massachusetts Bay to Gulf of Saint Lawrence; Isles of 
Shoals, 20 fathoms, and West Isles, 10 fathoms (Stimpson) ; Casco Bay, 
10 to 20 fathoms; Bay of Fundy, 8 to 60 fathoms; Sable Island, Nova 
Scotia (Willis) ; Grand Menan, in deep water, (Stimpson). 
