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Macoma inflata, Verrill and Bush. 



Macoma inflata (Stimpson M. S.) Dawson (1872). Name only. 



Macoma injiata, Verrill (1882). Name only. 



Macoma inflata, Verrill and Bush (1898). Figured, but not described. 



Murray Bay, P.Q. (Sir J. W. Dawson). The writer has dredged living 

 specimens of this shell off Grande Greve, Gasp^ Bay, in 1869 ; off Cap des 

 Rosiers, in 38 fathoms, and six miles off Cap des Hosiers, in 125 fathoms, 

 in 1871 ; and eleven miles from Perc^, in 60 fathoms, in 1872. 



M. inflata ha? also been found in the Pleistocene deposits of Riviere du 

 Loup and Montreal. 



" This species was named by Stimpson in manuscript, and the name 

 published b}^ Dawson, but the first real definition of " its " name is by 

 Verrill and Bush " * (Dall). 



Family Solenidce. 

 Ensis directus (Conrad). 



Solen cnsis, Conrad (1842) ; non Linne. 

 Solen directus, Conrad (1843) ; teste Dall. 

 Sohn Americanus, (xould (1870). 

 Ensatella Americana, Verrill (1872). 

 Emis directus, Dall (I'JOO). 



Grand Manan (Stimpson) ; Bay of Fundy, low-water mark to 40 fathoms, 

 sand (Verrill) ; Hospital Island, Passamaquoddy Bay (Ganong) ; Atlantic 

 coast of Nova Scotia and Sable Island, common (Willis). Shediac Bay 

 (Whiteaves) ; near Charlottetown, P. E. I., Professor Macoun ; Gaspd Bay 

 and Little Metis (Sir J. W. Dawson) ; Bic, Rimouski, and numerous locali- 

 ties on the Gasp^ coast (Bell) ; near Caribou Island, P.Q. (Packard). 



SiLiQUA cosTATA (Say). 



Solen costatus, Say (1822). 



Machcera costata, Gould (1841 and 1870). 



Siliqua costata, H. and A. Adams (1858). 



Fishing banks off Halifax (Willis) ; beach at Amherst Harbour, Magdalen 

 Islands (Whiteaves) ; Gaspe Bay (dead shells on beach), and Little Metis 

 Bay (Sir J. W. Dawson) ; Rimouski (Bell). "Not observed in the Bay of 

 Fundy" (Verrill). 



Siliqua squama (Blainville). 



Solccurtus squama, Blainville. 



Machara nitida, Gould (1841). 



Muchmra sc/tuima, Stimpson (1851) ; and Gould (1870). 



Siliqua squama, H. and A. Adams (1858). 



Fishing banks off Halifax, rare (Willis). 

 * Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, \ol. xxiu. (1900) p. 299. 



