INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. G75 



Solen vtriflis Say. This species has been recorded from the southern 

 coast of New England by several writers (Stonington, Connecticut, Lins- 

 ley : Ehode Island, Conrad), but 1 have myself met with no authentic 

 New England specimens. It may, however, occur rarely and perhaps 

 accidentally. It is not nucomraon on the outer beach at Great Egg 

 Harbor, New Jersey, and farther south, to Florida. 



SiLiQUA COSTATA Adams. Plate XXXII, fig. 211. (p. 358.) 



II. and A. Adams, Genera, vol. ii, p. 345, 1858. Solcn costafits Say, .Tonr. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., Pbilad., vol. ii, p. 315, 1822; Hanley, Recent Shells, p. 15, Plate 9, fig. 

 28 (non Legumiiiaria costata Sebum., 1817 = »S'iZi(/Ma racZtato Liuu6, sp.). Solen 

 Sayii Gray, Griffith's Cuvier, xii, Plate 31, fig. 3 (t. Gould). Machm-a costata 

 Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 34, and fig. on p. 24, 1841 ; ed. ii, p. 47, fig. 370. 

 Cape Hatteras to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Eare or local north of 

 Casco Bay. Not observed in the Bay of Eundy. Common in Massa- 

 chusetts Bay; Vineyard Sound; Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey. 

 Comparatively rare in Long Island Sound, near New Haven; Fire 

 Island Beach, Long Island (S. I. Smith). Coney Island, etc. (S. 

 Smith). Eimouski, Gulf of Saint Lawrence, common, (Bell). Banks off 

 Nova Scotia (Willis). The earliest name for this genus appears to be 

 SiUqita Muhlfeldt, ISIL It was named Leguminaria by Schumacher in 

 1817, and Machccra by Gould, in 184L The latter name is, moreover, 

 ]ireoccupied by Machccra Cuvier, 1832. 



Tagelus gibbus Gray. Plate XXVI, fig. 181 ; Plate XXX, fig. 217. 

 (p. 373.) 



Proc. Zool. Soc, London, xv, 1847 ; Dall, Proc. Bostou Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. xiii, 

 p. 251, 1870. Solen f/ihhm Spengler, Skrivt. Nat. Selks., vol. iii, p. 104, 1794 

 (t. Gould). Solen Gnineensis Chemnitz, Couch., xi, p. 202, Plate 198, fig. 1937, 

 1799. Solen Carihevus Lamarck, Auim. sans Vert., ed. ii, vol. vi, p. 58. 

 Sohcurtus Carihams Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 30. Solecurius (/ihhus Forbes and 

 Hanley, Brit. Moll., vol, i, p. 267 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 43, fig. 367. Sili- 

 qiiaria notata Schumacher, Essai d'uu Nouv. Syst. des Habit, des Vers test., p. 

 129, Plate 7, figs. 2, 3, 1817 (not the genus SiJiquaria Brug. ; Lam'arck, 1801). 

 SUiquaria glbha H. and A. Adams, Genera, p. 347, Plate 93, figs. 5, 5«, 1858. 



Caribbean Sea, West Indies, and Gulf of Mexico to Cape Cod. Simi- 

 lar if not identical species are found on the Pacific coast of Central 

 America, and on the west coast of Africa. Vineyard Sound and Buz- 

 zard's Bay, not uncommon ; Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, abundant. 

 Fort Macon, North Carolina, very common (Cones). Alabama (Mighels). 

 Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Virginia, South Carolina, aud Florida ; in 

 the Pliocene of South Carolina ; and in the Miocene of North and South 

 Carolina. 



The name, SUiquaria Schumacher, 1817, adopted for this genus by 

 several recent writers cannot be retained, because preoccupied by Bru- 

 giere, 1791, and by Lamarck (see Syst. des Anim., 1801, p. 98) for a 

 genus of Vermetidcc. 



This genus is widely different from the restricted genus Solecurtus 



