[653] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 359 
Sound; Buzzard’s: Bay. Very abundant north of Massachusetts Bay, 
in Casco Bay, Bay of Fundy, Labrador, ete. Staten Island and Long 
Island (S. Smith). 
Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of northern Great Britain and Scandi- 
navia. 
Lacuna neritoidea Gould. 
American Journ. of Science, vol. xxxviii, p. 197, 1540; Invert., ed. i, p. 263, fig. 
170; ed. ii, p. 303, fig. 574. 
This species is a very doubtful inhabitant of this region, having been 
recorded by no one except Linsley, 1845, who reports it from Long 
Island Sound (Oyster River and Long Beach, Stratford, Connecticut). 
I have never been able to find it in the same region, nor has any one else 
had better success. Linsley’s specimens may have been incorrectly 
named. Itoccurs in Massachusetts Bay; at Cape Elizabeth, Casco Bay ; 
Grand Menan Island, ete.; northward to Greenland ; and on the northern 
shore of Europe. 
LITTORINELLA MINUTA Stimpson. Plate XXIV, fig. 140. (p. 469.) 
Researches upon the Hydrobiine and Allied Forms, p. 42, May, 1865, in the 
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Turbo minutus Totten, American Journ. 
Science, ser. i, vol. xxvi, p. 369, fig. 6,1834. Cingula minuta Gould, Invert., ed. i, 
p. 265, fig. 171. Rissoa minuta Gould, op. cit., ed. ii, p. 298, fig. 566. crobia 
minuta (provisional name) Stimpson, op. cit., p. 42, 1865. ? Cingula modesta 
Lea, Boston Journal of Natural History, vol. v, p. 238, Plate 24, fig. 5, 
The tentacles in this species are rather short, scarcely exceeding the 
breadth of the head, slightly tapering, blunt; the eyes are on low prom- 
inences on the outer side of the bases of the tentacles; rostrum large, 
stout, transversely wrinkled, longer than the tentacles, tapering some- 
what, but divided at the end by a deep emargination into two rounded 
lobes, which are often somewhat expanded. oot short and broad, sub- 
truncate anteriorly, with the angles broad and but little produced, pos- 
terior end broadly rounded. 
New Jersey to Nova Scotia and Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Abundant 
along the brackish and muddy shores of Long Island Sound, Buzzard’s 
Bay, Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts Bay, Casco Bay, and Bay of 
Fundy. 
It is not confined to brackish waters, but often occurs also on the 
ocean shores, under stones between tides. 
LITTORINELLA LZVIS Verrill. 
Cingula levis Dekay, Natural History of New York, Mollusca, p. 111, Plate 6, 
fig. 118 (poor), 1843. Odostomia limnoidea (Dekay, MSS.), Linsley, Amer. 
Journ. Science, ser. i, vol. xlviii, p. 284, 1845 (no description). (?)Rissoa 
Stimpsoni 8. Smith, Annals Lyceum Nat. Hist., New York, vol. ix, p. 393, 
fig. 2, 1870. 
Long Island Sound, near New Haven. Stratford, Connectieut 
(Linsley); near New York (Dekay); Greenport, Long Island (S. 
Smith). 
