INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 677 



Macoma sabulosa Morch. 



Tcllina (Macoma) sabulosa Morcb, in Natnrh. Bidrag til Beskr. af Grouland, p. 

 90, 1857. Telliiia sahulosa Spengler, Skrivt. Nat., vol. iv, part 2, 1798. TelHna 

 proxima Gray, Zool. Beechey's Voyage, p. 1.54, Plate 44, fig. 4, 1839. TelUna 

 sbrdida Coutbouy, Boston Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. ii, p. .59, Plate 3, fig. 11, 1839. 

 Sanfjuinolaria sordida Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 67, 1841. TdUna lata Lov^n, 

 Ofvers. af Kongl. Vet.-Akad., FGrhaud., vol. xi, p. 195, 1846 (not TeUina lata 

 Gmelin, 1790, whicli is a Thracla, t. Morch). TelUtia calcarea Lyell, Phil. 

 Trans., 1833 (not Chemnitz, 1782 = a Jfrto/ra, t. Morch). Macoma proxima 

 Gould, ed. ii, p. 95, fig. 401 ; this Report, p. 503. Macoma cale%rz(i Adams ; 

 Dawson, op. cit., p. 73. 



Connecticut to the Arctic Ocean ; northern coasts of Europe; iN'orth 

 Pacific; south on the coast of Asia to Hakodadi, Japan ; and, perhaps 

 <;as M. expansa, a doubtful variety), on the west coast of America south 

 to Paget Sound. Off Block Ishxnd, in 29 fathoms, rare; Casco Bay, 3 

 to 60 fathoms, not uucouimou; Quahog Bay, Maine, 3 to 5 fathoms, soft 

 mud, hirge and abundant ; Bay of Fundy, 4 to 80 fiithoms. Stonington 

 and Stratford, Connecticut (Linsley); Saint George's Bank (S. I. 

 Smith). Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Maine, Nev*^ Brunswick, Canada, 

 Labrador, Scandinavia, and Great Britain. 



The TelUna tcnera Leach, 1818 {non Say), has been regarded as a 

 synonym of this species by most writers ; Morch considers it identical 

 with 71/. fragili.s. 



Angulus tener. Plate XXVI, fig. ISO ; Plate XXX, fig. 223. (p. 358.) 



TcUina (A»gulus) tenera H. and A. Adams, Genera, vol. ii, p. 398, 1858. Angu- 

 lus tencr Verrill, Anier. Jour. Science, vol. iii, p. 290, Plate 6, figs. 1, 1«, 

 1872. TelUna tenera S-^y, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. ii, p. 303,1822; 

 Hanley, Recent Shells, p. 65, Plate 9, fig. 38 ; Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 68, fig. 44 ; 

 ed.ii, p. 97, Bg. 403. 



Florida to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Common on the coast of Xew 

 Jersey, Long Island, Long Island Sound, Buzzard's Bay, Vineyard Sound, 

 Massachusetts Bay; less common iu Casco Bay and Bay of Fundy. 

 Gaspe, Canada (Dawson). Fort Macon, Xorth Carolina (Cones). A 

 closely-allied form {A decUvis .=^ TelUna decUvis Convdd, Journ. Acad. 

 N. Sc, Phil., vol. vii, p. 131) occurs in the Miocene of Virginia. 



Angulus tenellus A'errill. Plate XXX, fig. 224. 



Jnguhis modestus Verrill, Anier. Jour. Science, vol. iii, pp. 210, 285, Plate 

 G, figs. 2, 2a, 1872 ; this Report, p. 418, Cnon Carpenter, 1864). 



Shell smooth, shining, more or less iridescent, with very fine concen- 

 tric striie. Form similar to that of A. tener, but more oblong, and with 

 the anterior dorsal margin nearly straight, or even slightly concave ; 

 the beaks are at about the posterior third, and scarcely prominent; the 

 posterior end slopes rapidly, and is subtruncate at the end; the ven- 

 tral margin is but slightly convex in the middle, and sub-parallel with 

 the dorsal margin. The shell is often a little thickened, and firmer than 

 iu A. tencr, but is sometimes as thin. Color, pink, light straw-color, or 



