[663] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 369 



aiid salt-ponds along the shores of Vineyard Sound, Buzzard s Bay, 

 and Long Island Sound. Abundant in a small pond near Holmes Hole ; 

 in New Haven Harbor, in ditches near Fort Hale. 



CYLIOHNA ORYZA Stimpson. Plato XXV, fig. 10 L (p. 4!3J.) 



Smithsonian Check List, p. 4, 1830 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 221, fig. 512. Bttlla 

 oryza Totteu, Amer. Jour. Science, vol. xxviii, p. 350, fig. 5, 1835 ; Gould, 

 Invert., ed. i, p. 163, fig. 93. 



Cape Cod to South Carolina. Not uncorn:uo:i in Vineyard Sound,. 

 Buzzard s Bay, and Long Island Sound. This species was recorded as 

 from Casco Bay by Dr. Mighels, but as this habitat has not been con 

 firmed subsequently, it was probably based on an erroneous identifica 

 tion. Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Canada (Dawson). 



CYLICHNA ALBA Loven. Plate XXV, fig. 163. (p. 508.) 



Ofversigt af Kongl. Vet.-Akail. Forhaudlingar, vol. iii, p. 14), 1343; Gould, 

 Invert., ed. ii, p. 220, fig. 511. Volvaria alba Brown, 111. Conch. G. B., iii, p. 

 3, figs. 43, 44. Eidla tritloea Couthouy, Boston Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. ii, p. 83, 

 Plate 2, fig. 8, 1833 ; Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 165, fig. 93. 



Near Block Island, northward to the Arctic Ocean ; northern coasts 

 of Europe to Bergen ; and on the northwest coast of America, south to 

 Sitka. Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Canada and Great Britain. 



Most of the specimens of this shell dredged in the Bay of Fundy are 

 opaque, yellowish brown or chestnut color, but those from Casco Bay 

 are nearly all clear white and translucent, although of equal siz3. 



UTRIOULUS CANALICULATUS. Plate XXV, fig. 160. (p. 432.) 



Stimpsou, Smithsonian Check-List, p. 4, 1860; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 219, fig. 

 510. Volvaria canaUculata Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scienc es, Philadelphia, vol. 

 v, p. 211, 1826; Binuey s Say, p. 121. Bull a canaUculata Gould, Invert., ed. i, 

 p. 166, fig. 97. Tornatina canaUculata H. and A. Adams, Genera, vol. ii, p. 13. 



Massachusetts Bay to South Carolina. Common in Buzzard s Bay and 

 Vineyard Sound, in 2 to 8 fathoms ; less common in Long Island Sound. 

 Fort Macon, North Carolina, abundant, (Dr. Yarrow). Fossil in the 

 Post-Pliocene of North and South Carolina ; and the Pliocene of South 

 Carolina. 



AMPHISPHYRA DEBILIS Verrill. Plate XXV, fig. 1G2. (p. 432.) 



Bulla debilis Gould, Amer. Journ. Science, ser. i, vol. xxxviii, p. 196, 1840 ; In 

 vert., ed. i, p. 164, fig. 95, 1841. Diaphana deUUs Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 216, 

 fig. 507. Bulla pellucida Brown, 1844. Amphisplnjra pdlucida Lov6u, op. cit., 

 p. 143, 1846. Bulla Injalina Turton, Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. vii, p. 353, 1834, (t. 

 Jeffreys), (non Gnielin). 



Cape Cod to the Arctic Ocean ; and on the northern coasts of Europe, 

 southward to Great Britain, Madeira, etc. Stoniugton, Connecticut, 

 from stomach of cod (Liusley). Not uncommon in Casco Bay and Bay of 

 Fundy, and northward, in 6 to 50 fathoms. Very rare south of Cape 

 Cod. Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Canada, Great Britain, Norway, arid 

 Sweden. 



