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The American specimens of this shell differ so widely in form, and 

 especially in the structure of the hinge, from all the European speci 

 mens with which I have compared them, as well as from the descrip 

 tions and figures, that I cannot regard them as identical. Dr. Gould has 

 well defined the form and external characters of our shell. I have seen 

 no European specimens so elongated in form as the American examples 

 seen by me invariably are, but depend less on the external form than on 

 the structure of the hinge for distinguishing them. (See the greatly en 

 larged figure in the Anier. Journal of Science). 



Having had opportunities to study northern specimens of this shell, 

 since I gave it the name nitida, I have become fully satisfied that the 

 original shell described by Eabricius is identical with the American 

 species, rather than with the European. His description corresponds 

 well with our best specimens. The European species, if, as I believe, 

 distinct from ours, should, therefore, retain the name T. purpurea (Mon 

 tagu, sp. )j and minuta should be restored to the American form. 



KELLIA PLANULATA Stimpson. Plate XXX, fig. 22G. (p. 310.) 



Shells of New England, p. 17, 1851 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 83, fig, 393. A eUia 

 ndn-a Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 60, (non Montagu, sp.). 



Long Island Sound to Greenland. Near New Haven, Connecticut, rare $ 

 Vineyard Sound and Buzzard s Bay, 1 to 8 fathoms, not common $ Casco 

 Bay ; Eastport, Maine, 8 to 15 fathoms ; Bay of Fundy. Montauk and 

 Greeuport, Long Island, low-water to G fathoms, mud 5 and Gull Island, 

 low-water, under stones, (S. Smith). Boston Harbor, 5 fathoms, shelly, 

 (Stimpson). Sable Island, Nova Scotia (Willis). Greenland (Morch). 



MONTACUTA ELEVATA Stimpson. (p. 418.) 



Shells of New England, p. 16, 1851 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii. p. 86, tig. 393. Mon- 

 tacuta l)ideniata Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 59, 1841 (non Montagu, sp., 1803). 



Long Island Sound to Massachusetts Bay. Savin Rock, near New 

 Haven, rare; Naushon Island, Vineyard Sound, rare. Greenport, Long 

 Island (S. Smith). New Bedford (Gould). Chelsea Beach (Stimpson). 



LEPTON FABAGELLA Conrad. 



Marine Conchology, p. 53, Plate 11, fig. 3,1831; Dekay, Nat. History of New 

 York, Mollusca, p. 243, Plate 32, fig. 307, A, B. 



Khode Island (Conrad). 



I have not seen specimens of this shell. It seems to be rare and little 

 known. 



A closely-related species (L. mactroides Conrad, Fossils Medial Tert., 

 p. 19, Plate X, fig. 5, 1839) is found in the Miocene of Maryland. 



. SOLENOMYA VELUM Say. Plate XXIX, fig. 210. (p. 360.) 



Journal Acad. Nat. Sciences, Pliilad., vol. ii, p. 317, 1822 (Solemya); Gould, Invert., 

 ed. i, p. 35 : ed. ii, p. 48, fig. 371. 



North Carolina to Nova Scotia. Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey ; Long 

 Island Sound, near New Haven, low-water to 6 fathoms, not uncommon ; 



