INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 685 



Gaspe, Canada, are not this species, bnt a short variety of A. elliptica. 

 The latter is a much more northern sliell, and I have dredged but one 

 specimen on the ISTew England coast (otf Casco Bay, 65 fathoms). 



Fossil at Point Shirley, Massachusetts, in the Post-Pliocene, (Stimp- 

 sou, as A. sulcata) ; and at Gardiner's Island (S. Smith). 



ASTARTE CASTANEA Say, Plate XXIX, fig. 204. (p. 432.) 



American Conchology, Part i, 1830, Plate 1 ; Biuney's Say, p. 150, Plate 1 ; Gould, 

 luvert., ed. i, }>. 76, fig. 45; ed. ii, p. 117, fig. 431. Venun castanea Say, Journ. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., Pliilad., vol. ii, p. 273, 1822 ; Biuney's Say, p. 9G. CrassUia 

 castanea Lamarck, Anim. saus Vert., ed. ii, vol. vi, p. 258 ; Hanley, Recent 

 Shells, p. 88, Plate 9, fig. 27. 



Great Egg Harbor, Xew Jersey, to Nova Scotia. Common on the 

 shores of Long Island, Xantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Cape Cod ; 

 Long Island Sound, not very common; Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's 

 Bay, 5 to 20 fathoms, frequent; Casco Bay and Bay of Fundy, 5 to 20 

 fathoms, not common. Massachusetts Bay, abundant, (t. Gould). Saint 

 George's Bank, 25 to 40 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). Halifax aud Sable 

 Island, Xova Scotia (Willis). Off Cape Sable, Xova Scotia (A. E. V.). 

 Off Xew London, Connecticut (T. M. Prudden). Fossil iu the Post- 

 Pliocene at Xantucket and Point Shirley, Massachusetts. 



ASTARTE QUADRANS Gould. Plate XXIX, fig. 205. (p. 509.) 



Invert., ed. i, p. 81, fig. 48, 1841; ed. ii, p. 123, fig. 434 ; Verrill, Amer. Joiuu. Sci., 

 vol. iii, p. 287, 1872. Astarte Portlaiidioa Mighels, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. iv, pp. 320, 345, Plate Ifi, fig. 2, 1843 (variety) ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 

 127, fig. 441. 



Stonington, Connecticut, to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Mouth of Vine- 

 yard Sound, and off Martha's Vineyard, 19 to 25 fathoms, rare ; Massa- 

 chusetts Bay; Casco Bay; Bay of Fundy, in 6 to 40 fathoms, not un- 

 common. Saint George's Bank (S. I. Smith). Gulf of Saint Lawrence 

 ^Whiteaves). 



Var. Portlandica occurs, with intermediate forms, in Casco Bay and 

 Bay of Fundy, 10 to 25 fathoms, not common. 



GouLDiA MACTRACEA Gould. Plate XXIX, figs. 206, 207. (p. 418.) 



Invert., ed. ii, p. 128, fig. 442, 1870. Astarte mactraeea Linsley, Amer. .lour. Sci., 

 vol. xlviii, p. 275 (figure), 1845 ; Gould, op. cit., ser. ii, vol. vi, p. 23:>, figs. 1. 

 2, 1843. (f)Astarte luntilata Courad, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad., vol. 

 vii, p. 151, 1837 ; Fossils of the Medial Tertiary of the U. S., p. 45, Plate 21, fig. 

 8, 1840; Gouldia lunuJata Courad, Catal. of Mioceue Shells, iu Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. xiv, j). 578, 1862. 



Florida and northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico to Cape Cod. 

 Common, living, and of large size, in Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's 

 Bay, especially at Wood's Hole, 3 to 10 fathoms. Stonington, in 

 stomach of cod (Linsley). Huntington and Greenport, Long Island 

 (S. Smith). Off Xew London, Connecticut (coll. T. M. Prudden). Fort 

 Macon (Cones). South Carolina (Kurtz). West Florida (E. Jewett). 

 Tampa Bay (Conrad). 



