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(?) Venericardia cribraria Saj^, Amer. Couch., Part v, cover, 1832; Binney's Say, 

 p. 205. (?) Venericardia granulata Say, Jonv. A. Nat. Sci.,Philadelpbia, vol. 

 iv, ji. 142, Plate 12, fig. 1. Cardita aranulata Conrad, Fossils of Medial Tert. 

 of U. S., p. 13, Plate 7, fig. 1. 



New Jersey to Labrador. Coiumoa in the deeper j)arts of Vineyard 

 Sound, near its mouth, and off Gay Head and Buzzard's Bay, 10 to 25 

 fathoms; off Block Island, 29 fathoms; very common in OascoBay, Bay 

 of Fuudy, and Gulf of Saint Lawrence, 3 to 80 fathoms. Sandy Hook, 

 and Moutauk, Long Island (S. Smith). Off New London, Connecticut 

 (T. M. Pruddeu). Saint George's Bank, 25 to 65 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). 

 Straits of Belle Isle, 50 fathoms; Chateau Ba^', 50 fathoms ; Long Island, 

 Labrador, 15 fathoms, (Packard). A species, regarded as identical by 

 Dr. Carpenter, occurs on the North Pacific coast of America as far south 

 as Catalina Island, and on the northeast coast of Asia. 



Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Gardiner's Island; Nantucket and Point 

 Shirley, Massachusetts ; and Labrador. The Miocene form, G. granu- 

 lata (Say, sp.) is very closely allied to this, if not identical. It is .found 

 in Virginia and Maryland. 



Cyclocardia NovANGLiiE Morse. 'Plate XXIX, fig. 215. (p. 418.) 



Actinoiolus (Cyclocardia) Nova-angliw Morse, First Annual Report of Trustees 

 of Pea'body Acad, of Science, Salem, p. 76, cut, 1883. Ci/clocardia Xovang- 

 Jiw Verrill, Amer. Journ. Science, vol. iii, p. 211, 1872. 



Connecticut to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Mouth of Vineyard Sound 

 and off' Gay Head, 10 to 25 fathoms ; Casco Bay, and Bay of Fundy, 

 3 to 40 fathoms, not uncommon. Off New London, Connecticut (T. M. 

 Prudden). 



ASTARTE UNDATA Gould. Plate XXIX, fig. 203. (p. 508.) 



Invert., ed. i, p. 80, fig. 46, 1841 (provisional name); Pliilippi, Abbilduugen und 

 Besclir. neuer oder wenig gek. Concb., vol. ii, p. 1, Plate l,fig. 1, 1850; Verrill, 

 Amer. Jour. Science, vol. iii, p. 213, 1872. Crasina lafisnlca Hauley, Recent 

 Shells, p. 87, Plate 14, fig. 35, 1843. Astarte sulcata Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 78, 

 fig. 46, 1841 (not of European writers) ; ed. ii, p. 119, fig. 432 (poor figure; 

 from an old, deformed shell). 



Yav. httea= Astarte I utca Perkins, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. xiii, p. 150, 

 figure, 1869. . 



Long Island Sound to the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Law- 

 rence. Off Gay Head and Buzzard's Bay, aud in the deeper parts of 

 Vineyard Sound, 8 to 25 fathoms, common ; oft' Block Island, 29 fath- 

 oms: very common in Casco Bay and Bay of Fundy, 5 to 100 fathoms; 

 Saint George's Bank, 20 to 85 fathoms. Off" New London, Connecticut, 

 (T. M. Pruddeu). Southern part of Gulf of Saint Lawrence (Whit- 

 eaves). Var. hitea occurs rarely near New Haven (Perkins) ; and more 

 frequently off Gay Head and in Vineyard Sound, 8 to 19 fathoms, Avith 

 the ordinary varieties. It resembles the European sulcata more than the 

 common or typical varieties do, but i)asses insensibly into the ordinary 

 ibrms. The shells referred to undata, by Dawson and Whiteaves, from 



