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Solen viridis Say. This species has been recorded from tin- southern 

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

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

 New England specimens. It may, however, occur rarely :md pn-li:ip> 

 accidentally. It is not uncommon on the outer beach ;it <irc;it ' 

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



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



II. and A. Adams, Genera, vol. ii, p. 345, 1858. Solcn costatus Say, Jonr. Ac.-id. 

 Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. ii, p. 315, 1822; Hauley, Recent Shells, p. 15, Plat.- !i. ftg, 

 28 (non Leguminaria costata Sebum., 1817 = Siliqua radiata Linnd, sp.). Solen 

 Sayii Gray, Griffith's Cuvier, xii, Plate 31, fig. 3 (t. Gould). Macluvra costata 

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



Cape Halt-eras to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Rare 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). Rimouski, 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 Maclicera by Gould, in 1841. The latter name is, moreover, 

 preoccupied by MacJicera Cuvier, 1832. 



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



(p. 373.) 



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

 p. 251, 1870. Solen (jibbus Spengler, Skrivt. Nat. Selks., vol. iii, p. 104, 1794 

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

 1799. Solen Caribcvus Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert., ed. ii, vol. vi, p. 58. 

 Solecurlus Caribwus Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 30. Solccnrtus gibbus Forbes and 

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

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

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

 Siliquaria gibba 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 Solccurtua 



