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 B. Iiijimoiis: 



1. By destroying food-producing molliisks or shell fish, 



such as clams, mussels, oysters, and razor-fish : 



32860. Ribbon whelk (Fitlgur carica). Florida. T. A. Conrad. 



32859. Reversed whelk (Fulgur perversa). Caroliuas. Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



32861. YiaAxy \;\ie\k. {Sijcotypus canaliculatus). Vineyard Sound. Dr. Wm. 



Stimpson. 

 32864. Winged conch {Strovibus alatus). Tampa Bay, Florida. T. A. Conrad. 

 32863. Thorny drill {Hemifusus hicoronatns). Tampa Bay, Florida. T. A. 



Conrad. 

 32835. Drill (Urosalpinxdncrevs). Florida to Massachusetts Bay. W. H. Dall. 

 32975. Drill. South Norwalk, Conn. Hoyt Bros. 



32837. Periwinkle (Pwrj^Hra/owZanrt). Barataria Bay, La. Gustav Kohn. 

 32892. Sea-snail (Lunaiia Lewisii). Monterey, Cal. H. Hemphill. 

 32913. Sea-snail {Nevcrita recluziana). CaUfomia. W. H. Dall. 

 27620. Sea-snail {Nevcrita dupUcata). North Carolina. T. D. Kurtz. 

 32866. Sea-snail (Lunaiia heros). Massachusetts Bay. C. B. Fuller. 



2. Injurious by destroying vegetable substances and 



garden plants : 



33088. Slug {Umax Hewstoni). Oakland, Cal. H. Hemphill. 



ITIolliisca acephaSa.— Bivalve shellfish. 

 A. Producing food or used as bait. 



* Oysters. 



1. Series illustrating distribution and geographical vari- 

 eties: 



Osf rea virg'inica, Gmelin. — East Aimerican oysters. 



32784. Northern variety ( 0. Vorealis, Lam.) Prince Edward's Island. J. 



W. Dawson. 



32813. Nova Scotia. J. H. Willis. 



32785. Shediac, New Brunswick. W. H. Dall. 



33092. " PouiTier Bed." Shediac, New Brunswick. G. F. Mathew. 



33093. "Buctouche." Kent County, New Brunswick. G. F. Mathew. 

 32783. Miramichi River, New Brunswick. W. H. Dall. 



32977. Indigenous oyster, now extinct. Shell-heaps. Damariscotta, Maine. 



Robert Dixon. 



32978. Ditto. Shell-heaps. Shcepscot River, Maine. Robert Dixon. 

 32810. Indigenous oyster (var. horcalis). Buzzard's Bay, Mass. Dr. Wra. 



Stimpson. 



32814. Specimens showing color-bands. Rhode Island. General Totten. 



Note. — The following series of oysters from the vicinity of New 

 York were furnished by Mr. B. J. M. Carley, oyster-dealer, of 

 Fulton Market, New York, through Mr. E. G. Blackford : 



32790. "Greenwich." Greenwich, Conu. 



32777. "Blue Point." Long Island, New York. 



32779. "Lloyd's Harbor." Long Island, New York. 



