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B. Injurious: 



1. By destroying food-producing inollusks or shellfish, 



such as clams, mussels, oysters, and razor-fish : 



32860. Ribbon whelk (Fulgur carica). Florida. T. A. Conrad. 



32859. Reversed whelk (Fulgur perversa). Carolinas. Dr. Wm. Stiinpsou. 



32861. Hairy whelk (Sycolypus canaliculatm). Vineyard Sound. Dr. Win. 



Stiinpson. 



32864. Winged conch (Stromlus alatus). Tampa Bay, Florida. T. A. Conrad. 

 32863. Thorny drill (Hemifusus Ucoronatus). Tampa Bay, Florida. T. A. 



Conrad. 



32835. Drill ( Urosa Ipin x cinereus). Florida to Massachusetts Bay. \V. H. Dall.. 

 32975. Drill. South Norwalk, Conn. Hoyt Bros. 



32837. Periwinkle (Purpura floridana). Barataria Bay, La. Gustav Kohu. 

 32892. Sea-snail (Lunatia Lewisii). Monterey, Cal. H. Hemphill. 

 32913. Sea-snail (Xeverita recluziana). California. "W. H. Dall. 

 27620. Sea-snail (Xeverita duplicata). North Carolina. T. D. Kurtz. 

 32866. Sea-snail (Lunatia heros). Massachusetts Bay. C. B. Fuller. 



2. Injurious by destroying vegetable substances and 



garden plants : 



33088. Slug (Umax Hewstoni). Oakland, Cal. H. Hemphill. 



Mollusca acephala. BIVALVE SHELLFISH. 

 A. Producing food or used as bait. 



* Oysters. 



1. Series illustrating distribution and geographical vari- 

 eties: 



Ostrea virginica, Gmelin. EAST AMERICAN OYSTERS. 



32784. Northern variety (O. lorealis, Lam.) Prince Edward's Island. J. 



W. Dawsoii. 

 32813. Nova Scotia. J. H. Willis. 



32785. Shediac, New Brunswick. W. H. Dall. 



33092. " Pourrier Bed." Shediac, New Brunswick. G. F. Matlievr. 



33093. "Buctouche." Kent County. New Brunswick. G. F. Mathew. 

 32783. Miramiclii River, New Brunswick. W. H. Dall. 



32977. Indigenous oyster, now extinct. Shell-heaps. Dainariscotta, Maine* 



Robert Dixon. 



32978. Ditto. Shell-heaps. Sheepscot River, Maine. Robert Dixon. 

 32S10. Indigenous oyster (var. lorealis). Buzzard's Bay, Mass. Dr. Win. 



Stimpson. 

 32714. Specimens showing color-bands. Rhode Island. General Totten. 



NOTE. The following series of oysters from the vicinity of New 

 York were furnished by Mr. B. J. M. Carley, oyster-dealer, of 

 Fulton Market, New York, through Mr. E. G. Blackford: 

 32790. "Greenwich." Greenwich, Conn. 

 32777. '-Blue Point." Long Island, New York. 

 32779. "Lloyd's Harbor." Long Island, New York. 



