376 EEPOKT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [670] 



TEREDO MEGOTARA Hanley. Plate XXVII, fig. 188. (p. 387.) 



Forbes and Hanley, Brit. Conch., vol. i,p. 77, Flate 1, figs. 1, 2; Plate 18, figs. 1, 

 2; vol. iv, p. 247; Tryon, op. cit., p. 466, 1862; Jeffreys op. cit., p. 176; 

 Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 30, fig. 357. 



Massachusetts Bay to South Carolina. Common in floating drift 

 wood, in the North Atlantic ; north to Greenland, Iceland, and Spitz- 

 bergen ; coasts of Scandinavia and Great Britain. Fossil in the Post- 

 Pliocene of Scandinavia. 



TEREDO THOMSONII Tryon. Plate XXVII, fig. 187. (p. 387.) 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, vol. xv, p. 28, Plate 2, figs. 3, 4, 5, 1863; 

 Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 31, fig. 358. 



Xew Bedford, Massachusetts, in cedar buoys (Tryon). Provincetown, 

 Massachusetts, in whale-ship (Atwood). 



TEREDO DILATATA Stimpson. 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. iv, p. 113, 1851 ; Shells of New England, p. 26 ; 

 Tryon, op. cit., p. 464, 1882; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 32, tig. 359. 



Massachusetts to South Carolina (Tryon). Cape Ann, in buoys, 

 (Stimpson). Provincetowu, Massachusetts (Gould). Greeuport, Long- 

 Island (S. Smith). I have not met with this species south of Cape Cod. 



XYLOTRYA FIMBRIATA Jeffreys. Plate XXVII, fig. 189. (p. 387.) 



Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. iii, vol. vi, p. 126, 1860 ; Tryon, op. cit., p. 478, 

 1862 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 34, fig. 361. Teredo palmulata Forbes and 

 Hauley, &quot; Brit. Moll., vol. i. p. 86, Plate 2, figs. 9-11, (non Lamarck). Xyl- 

 oirya palmulata Stimpson, Check-List, p. 3, 1860 ; Perkins, Proc. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. xii, p. 141, 1869. 



Long Island Sound to Florida ; Pacific coast, at the Straits of Fuca ; 

 Europe. In an old submerged wreck near New Haven. From the hull 

 of the &quot; Peterhoff,&quot; used in the blockade of the southern coast during the 

 late war. Frequent in vessels from foreign ports. 



PHOLA.S TRUNCATA Say. Plate XXVII. fig. 200. (p. 372.) 



Journal Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, ser. i, vol. ii, p. 321, 1822 ; Binuey s Say, 

 p. 107 ; Hanley, Recent Shells, p. 6, Plate 9, fig. 26 ; Tryon, op. cit., p. 202 ; 

 Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 38, fig. 364. 



Vineyard Sound to Florida. Payta, Peru (Tryon). Common on the 

 shores of Long Island Sound, near Xew Haven. The large specimens 

 from Sable Island (Gould), mentioned by Tryon, were not this species, 

 but Zi. crispata. 



PIIOLAS COSTATA Linne. (p. 433.) 



Systema Nature, ed. xii, p. 1111, 1762 ; Tryon, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phila 

 delphia, xiv. p. 201, 1862 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 37, fig. 363. 



Caribbean Sea to Buzzard s Bay. Southern Europe (Linne). New 

 Bedford Harbor, living, (Gould); Wood s Hole, Massachusetts, dead 



