INYEETEBKATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 071 



shells dredged, (A. E. V.) ; Long Island Sound. Atlantic City, i^Tew 

 Jersey (Tyron). Specimens from the east and west coasts of Florida; 

 and from near Vera Cruz, ISIexico (coll., Mr. Salt), are also in the 

 museum of Yale College. 



ZiRPH.i^A CRiSPATAMorcli, 1S53. (p. 433.) 



H. and A. Adams, Geuera, vol. ii,p. :>-27, Plate 89, figs. 5, 5rt, 185S ; Tryon, op. 



cit., p. 211, 18G2. Fholas crispata Liane, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1111, 1767 ; 



Gould, luvert., ed. i, p. 27. Zirfa'a crhpata Gray, Fi<i;m-e.s of Moll. Aniin., 



Plate 338, fig. 5, aud 339, fig. 5, 1857 ; Auu. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. ii, vol. 



viii, p. 385, 1851 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 39, fig. 365. 



Stoniugton, Connecticut, to Gulf of Saint Lawrence ; Iceland; north- 

 ern coasts of Europe, south to France, and the southern coasts of Great 

 Britain ; west coast of North America, south to California. Charles- 

 ton, South Carolina (Stimpson, t. Gould). New Jersey (t. Gould). 

 Wood's Hole, dead shells dredged, (A. E. V.). Common in Casco Bay, 

 in 10 to 20 fathoms, i)erforating hard clay aud sunken but sound wood ; 

 also in tlie Bay of Fundy, in 8 to 70 fathoms, in hard clay. Mr. C. B. 

 Fuller has obtained fine large specimens in submerged tree-stumps at 

 extreme low-water mark on Jewell's Island, Casco Bay. Fossil in the 

 Post-Pliocene of Maine, Scandinavia ; and in the Coralline and Bed 

 Crags of Great Britain. Its occurrence at Charleston, South Carolina, 

 needs confirmation. 



Martesia cuneiformis Gray, 1851; Tryon, op. cit., p. 210. Fholas cund- 

 formis Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. ii, p. 322, 1822. 



This species was found by Mr. Perkins in oyster-shells, near New 

 Haven, but it was probably brought from farther south (Maryland or 

 Virginia) in the oysters. It inhabits the coasts of Florida and the 

 West Indies. 



Biplotliyra Smithii Tr^'on, op. cit., p. 450, 1862. 



This species was described from specimens found in oyster-sbeils at 

 Staten Island, where they were supposed to have lived. If really indig- 

 enous there, it may be expected to occur in Lang Island Sound. 



Saxicava arctica Deshays. Plate XXVII, fig. 192. (p. 309.) 



Elem. Couch., Plate xii, figs. 8, 9 (t. Gould) ; Forbes and Hanley, Brit. Moll., vol. 

 i, p. 141, Plate 6, figs. 4-6; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 89, fig. 397. J///« arcHca 

 Liun^, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1113, 1767. MtjfUus rugosns Liuud, Syst. Nat., 

 ed. xii, p. 11.56. Saxicava rufjom Lamarck, Auim. sans Vert., ed. ii, vol. vi, p. 

 152 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 87 ; Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., vol. iii, p. 81. Mijtilus 

 pholadis Linn6, Mant. Plant., p. 548. Saxicava jj7io?rt(i(8 Lamarck, op. cit., vol. 

 vi, p. 152. (?) Saxicava distorta Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. ii, p. 318, 

 1822; Gould, ed. i, p. 62. 

 Georgia and South Carolina to the Arctic Ocean ; northern coasts of 

 Europe to the Mediterranean : Pacific Coast of America, south to Santa 

 Barbara, California. Various other parts of the world are given as locali- 

 ties by different authors. On our coast this shell is very common from 

 Massachusetts Bay to Labrador, occurring from low-water mark to 50 



