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Solen viridis Say. This species lias been recorded from the southern 

 coast of New England by several writers (Stonington, Connecticut, Lins- 

 ley : Ehode Island, Conrad), but I have myself met with no authentic 

 New England specimens. It may, however, occur rarely and perhaps 

 accidentally. It is not uncommon on the outer beach at Great Egg 

 Harbor, New Jersey, and farther south, to Florida. 



SILIQUA COSTATA Adams. Plate XXXII. tig. 244. (p. 358.) 



H. and A. Adams, Genera, vol. ii, p. 345, 1858. Solen contains Say, Jour. Acad. 

 Nat, Sci., Philad., vol. ii, p. 315, 1822; Hanley, Recent Shells, p. 15, Plate 9, fig. 

 28 (non Leguminaria costata Sebum., 1817 = Slliqua radiafa Lhm, sp.). Solen 

 Sayii Gray, Griffith s Cuvier, xii, Plate 31, fig. 3 (t. Gould). Maclucra costata 

 Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 34, and fig. on p. 24, 1841 ; ed. ii, p. 47, fig. 370. 



Cape Hatteras to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Eare or local north of 

 Casco Bay. Not observed in the Bay of Fundy. Common in Massa 

 chusetts Bay; Vineyard Sound; Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey. 

 Comparatively rare in Long Island Sound, near New Haven ; Fire 

 Island Beach, Long Island (S. I. Smith). Coney Island, etc. (S. 

 Smith). Bimouski, Gulf of Saint Lawrence, common, (Bell). Banks off 

 Nova Scotia (Willis). The earliest name for this genus appears to be 

 Siliqua Muhlfeldt, 1811. It was named Leguminaria by Schumacher in 

 1817, and Maclmra by Gould, in 1841. The latter name is, moreover, 

 preoccupied by Macliccra Cuvier, 1832. 



TAGELUS GIBBUS Gray. Plate XXVI, fig. 181 ; Plate XXX, fig. 217. 

 (p. 373.) 



Proc. Zool. Soc., London, xv, 1847; D.ill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. xiii, 

 p. 251, 1870. Solen glVbm Spongier, Skrivt. Nat. Selks., vol. iii, p. 104, 1794 

 (t. Gould). Solen, Guinecnsis Chemnitz, Conch., xi, p. 202, Plate 198, fig. 1937, 

 1799. Solcn Car ibcKUS Lamarck, Auim. sans Vert., ed. ii, vol. vi, p. 58. 

 Solecurtua Caribcvus Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 30. Solccnrtas gibbus Forbes and 

 Hauley, Brit. Moll., vol. i, p. 267 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 43, fig. 367. SiU- 

 qnaria notata Schumacher, Essai d un Nouv. Syst. des Habit, des Vers test., p. 

 129, Plate 7, figs. 2, 3, 1817 (not the genus SiUquaria Brug. ; Lamarck, 1801). 

 Siliquaria gilba H. and A. Adams, Genera, p. 347, Plate 93, figs. 5, 5, 1858. 



Caribbean Sea, West Indies, and Gulf of Mexico to Cape Cod. Simi 

 lar if not identical species are found on the Pacific coast of Central 

 America, and on the west coast of Africa. Vineyard Sound and Buz 

 zard s Bay, not uncommon ; Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, abundant. 

 Fort Macon, North Carolina, very common (Coues). Alabama (Mighels). 

 Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Virginia, South Carolina, and Florida ; in 

 the Pliocene of South Carolina ; and in the Miocene of North and South 

 Carolina. 



The name, Siliquaria Schumacher, 1817, adopted for this genus by 

 several recent writers cannot be retained, because preoccupied by Bru- 

 giere, 1791, and by Lamarck (see Syst. des Anim., 1801, p. 98) for a 

 genus of Vermetidce. 



This genus is widely different from the restricted genus Solecurtus 



