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



Forbes and Hanley, Brit. Conch., vol. i,p. 77, Plate 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 5 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, tig. 358. 



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

 Massachusetts, in whale-ship (Atwood). 



TEREDO DILATATA Stimpson. 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. iv, p. 113, 18">1 ; Shells of New England, p. 26 ; 

 Tryon, op. cit., p. 464, 1852; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 32, tig. 359. 



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

 (Stimpson). Provincetowu, Massachusetts (Gould). Greenport, Long 

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



XYLOTRYA FIMBRIATA Jeffreys. Plate XXVII, fig. 180. (p. 387.) 



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

 1882 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 34, fig. 361. Teredo i>nli>inlnla Forbes and 

 Hanley, Brit. Moll., vol. i. p. 86, Plate 2, figs. 9-11, (non Lamarck). A///- 

 otrya 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 " Peterhoff," used in the blockade of the southern coast during the 

 late war. Frequent in vessels from foreign ports. 



PHOLAS TRUNCATA Say. Plate XXVII. fig. 200. (p. 372.) 



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

 p. 107 ; Hanley, Recent Shells, p. 6, Plate 9, fig. 26 ; Tryou, 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 Z. crispata. 



PHOLAS COSTATA Linne. (p. 433.) 



Systema Naturae, 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 



