[685] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETc. 391 
Gaspé, Canada, are not this species, but a short variety of A. elliptica. 
The latter is a much more northern shell, and I have dredged but one 
specimen on the New England coast (off Casco Bay, 65 fathoms). 
Fossil at Point Shirley, Massachusetts, in the Post-Pliocene, (Stimp- 
son, as A. suleata); and at Gardiner’s Island (S. Smith). 
ASTARTE CASTANEA Say. Plate XXIX, fig. 204. (p. 432.) 
American Conchology, Parti, 1830, Plate 1; Binney’s Say, p. 150, Plate 1; Gould, 
Invert., ed. i, p. 76, fig. 45; ed. ii, p. 117, fig. 431. Venus castanea Say, Journ. 
Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. ii, p. 273, 1822; Binney’s Say, p. 96. “Crassina 
castanea Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert., ed. ii, vol. vi, p. 258; Hanley, Recent 
Shells, p. 88, Plate 9, fig. 27. 
Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, to Nova Scotia. Common on the 
shores of Long Island, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and Cape Cod ; 
Long Island Sound, not very common; Vineyard Sound and Buzzard’s 
Bay, 5 to 20 fathoms, frequent; Casco Bay and Bay of Fundy, 5 to 20 
fathoms, not common. Massachusetts Bay, abundant, (t. Gould). Saint 
George’s Bank, 25 to 40 fathoms, (S. 1. Smith). Halifax and Sable 
Island, Nova Scotia (Willis). Off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia (A. E. V.): 
Off New London, Connecticut (T. M. Prndden). Fossil in the Post- 
Pliocene at Nantucket and Point Shirley, Massachusetts. 
ASTARTE QUADRANS Gould. Plate X XIX, fig. 205. (p. 509.) 
Invert., ed. i, p. 81, fig. 48, 1841; ed. ii, p. 123, fig. 434 ; Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci., 
vol. iii, p. 287, 1872. Astarte Portlandica Mighels, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., 
vol. iv, pp. 320, 345, Plate 16, fig. 2, 1843 (variety) ; Gould, Invert-, ed. ii, p. 
127, fig. 441. 
Stonington, Connecticut, to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Mouth of Vine- 
yard Sound, and off Martha’s Vineyard, 19 to 25 fathoms, rare ; Massa- 
chusetts Bay ; Casco Bay; Bay of Fundy, in 6 to 40 fathoms, not un- 
common. Saint George’s Bank (S. I. Smith). Gulf of Saint Lawrence 
‘Whiteaves). 
Var. Portlandica occurs, with intermediate forms, in Casco Bay and 
Bay of Fundy, 10 to 25 fathoms, not common. 
GOULDIA MACTRACEA Gould. Plate XXIX, figs. 206, 207. (p. 418.) 
Invert., ed. ii, p. 128, fig. 442, 1870. Astarte mactracea Linsley, Amer. Jour. Sci., 
vol. xlviii, p. 275 (figure), 1845 ; Gould, op. cit., ser. ii, vol. Vi, p. 233, figs. 1. 
2,1848. (?)Astarte lunulata Conrad, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad., vol. 
vii, p. 151, 1837; Fossils of the Medial Tertiary of the U.S., p. 45, Plate 21, fig. 
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8, 1840; Gouldia lunulata Conrad, Catal. of Miocene Shells, in Proc. Acad. 
Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. xiv, p. 578, 1862. 
Florida and northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico to Cape Cod. 
Common, living, and of large size, in Vineyard Sound and Buzzard’s 
Bay, especially at Wood’s Hole, 3 to 10 fathoms. Stonington, in 
stomach of cod (Linsley). Huntington ‘and Greenport, Long Island 
(S. Smith). Off New London, Connecticut (coll. T. M. Prudden). Fort 
Macon (Coues). South Carolina (Kurtz). West Florida (E. Jewett). 
Tampa Bay (Conrad). 
