INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEi-ARD SOUND, ETC. G63 



and salt-pouds aloug the shores of Viueyard Sound, Buzzard's Bay, 

 and Loug Ishmd Soimd. Abandaut in a small poad near Holmes' Hole ; 

 in New Haven Harbor, in ditches near Fort Hale. 



Cyltchna oryza Sfcimpsoa. Plate XX7, fi^-. ir,\,. (p. 43^.) 



Smithsonian Check List, p. 4, ISjO ; GDuld, Invert., oil. ii, p. 221, dr. 512. Billa 

 oryza Totteu, Aiusr. Jour. ScieiKio, vol. xxviii, p. :r)0, fi,:;-. 5, 1855 ; Crould, 

 Invert., ed. i, p. 163, fig. 93. 



Cape Cod to South Carolina. Not uat;o;n:n>.! ia Vi i^yard Siuad, 

 Buzzard's Bay, and Long- Island Sound. This species was recorded as 

 from Casco Bay by Dr. Mighels, but as this habitat has not been con- 

 firmed subsequently, it was probably based on an erroneous identifica- 

 tion. Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Canada (Dawson). 



Cyliciina ALEALoven. Plate XXV, fig. 1G3. (p. 508.) 



Ofversigt af Koagl. Vet.-Akad. Forhandliugar, vol. iii, p. 142, 1843; Gould, 

 Invert., ed. ii, p. '220, fig. 511. Volcnria alba Brown, 111. Conch. G. B., iii, j). 

 3, figs. 43,44. Bulla triticea Couthouy, Boston Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. ii, p. 88, 

 Plate 2, fig. 8, 1838 ; Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 165, fig. 98. 



Xear Block Island, northward to the Arctic Ocean ; northern coasts 

 of Europe to Bergen ; and on the northwest coast of America, south to 

 Sitka. • Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Canada and Great Britain. 



Most of the specimens of this shell dredged in the Bay of Fundy are 

 opaque, yellowish brown or chestnut color, but those from Casco Bay 

 are nearly all clear white and translucent, although of equal siz:\ 



Utrioulus canaliculatus. Plate XXV, fig. 160. (p. 432.) 



,Stimpson, Smithsonian Check-List, p. 4, 1860; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 219, fig. 

 510. Foh'aria caualiculata Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, vol. 

 V, p. 211, 1826; Binuey's Say, p. 121. Bulla caualiculata Gould, Invert., ed. i, 

 p. 166, fig. 97. Toriiatina canaHculata H. and A. Adams, Genera, vol. ii, p. 13. 



Massachusetts Bay to South Carolina. Common in Buzzard's Bay and 

 Vineyard Sound, in 2 to 8 fathoms ; less common in Long Island Sound. 

 Fort Macon, North Carolina, abundant, (Dr. Yarrow). Fossil in the 

 Post-Pliocene of North and South Carolina ; and the Pliocene of South 

 Carolina. 



Amphisphyra debilis Verrill. Plate XXV, fig. 102. (p. 432.) 



Bulla debilis Gon\d, Amer. Journ. Science, ser. i, vol. xxxviii, p. 196, 1840; In- 

 vert., ed. i, p. 164, fig. 95, 1841. Diaplmna debilis Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 216,. 

 fig. 507. Bulla pellucida Brown, 1844. Amphisphyra pellucida Lovdn, op. cit., 

 p. 143, 1846. Bulla liyalina Turton, Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. vii, p. 353, 1834, (t. 

 Jefi'reys), (uou Gmelin). 



Cape Cod to the Arctic Ocean ; and on the northern coasts of Europe, 

 southward to Great Britain, Madeira, etc. Stoniugton, Connecticut, 

 from stomach of cod (Linsley). Not uncommon in Casco Bay and Bay of 

 Fundy, and northward, in 6 to 50 fathoms. Very rare south of Cape 

 Cod. Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Canada, Great Britain, Norway, and 

 Sweden. 



