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(?) Venericardia cribraria Say, Arner. Couch., Part v, cover, 1832; Binney's Say, 

 p. '205. (?) Venericardia yranulata Say, Jour. A. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, vol. 

 iv, p. 142, Plate 12, fig. 1. Cardita grannJata Conrad, Fossils of Medial Tert. 

 of U. S., p. 13, Plate 7, fig. 1. 



New Jersey to Labrador. Common in the deeper parts of Vineyard 

 Sound, near its month, and off Gay Head and Buzzard's Bay, 10 to 25 

 fathoms; off Block Island, 29 fathoms; very common in Casco Bay, Bay 

 of Fuudy, and Gnlf of Saint Lawrence, 3 to 80 fathoms. Sandy Hook, 

 and Montank, Long Island (S. Smith). Off New London, Connecticut 

 (T. M. Prudden). Saint George's Bank, 25 to 65 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). 

 Straits of Belle Isle, 50 fathoms; Chateau Bay, 50 fathoms ; Long Island, 

 Labrador, 15 fathoms, (Packard). A species, regarded as identical by 

 Dr. Carpenter, occurs on the North Pacific coast of America as far south 

 as Catalina Island, and on the northeast coast of Asia. 



Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Gardiner's Island ; Nantucket and Point 

 Shirley, Massachusetts ; and Labrador. The Miocene form, C. gmnu- 

 lata (Say, sp.) is very closely allied to this, if not identical. It is found 

 in Virginia and Maryland. 



CYCLOCARDIA NOVANGKLI^E Morse. Plate XXIX, fig. 215. (p. 418.) 



Actinobolm (Cyclocardia) Xova-anyllce Morse, First Annual Report of Trustees 

 of Peabody Acad. of Science, Salem, p. 76, cut, 1869. Ci/docm-din Xoi-ang- 

 lice Verrill, Amer. Jouru. Science, vol. iii, p. 211, 1872. 



Connecticut to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Mouth of Vineyard Sound 

 and off Gay Head, 10 to 25 fathoms ; Casco Bay, and Bay of Fundy, 

 3 to 40 fathoms, not uncommon. Off New London, Connecticut (T. M. 

 Prudden). 



ASTARTE UNDATA Gould. Plate XXIX, fig. 203. (p. 508.) 



Invert., ed. i, p. 80, fig. 46, 1841 (provisional name); Philippi, Abbildungeii uud 

 Besclir. neuer oder \venig gek. Conch., vol. ii, p. 1, Plate 1, fig. 1, 1850 ; Verrill, 

 Amer. Jour. Science, vol. iii, p. 213, 1872. Crasina latisnlca Hauley, Recent 

 Shells, p. 87, Plate 14, fig. 35, 1843. Astarte sulcata Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 78, 

 fig. 46, 1841 (not of European writers) ; ed. ii, p. 119, fig. 432 (poor figure, 

 from an old, deformed shell). 



Var. lutea = Astarte lutea Perkins, Proc. Bastou Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. xiii, p. 150, 

 figure, 1869. 



Long Island Sound to the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Law- 

 rence. Off Gay Head and Buzzard's Bay, and in the deeper parts of 

 Vineyard Sound, 8 to 25 fathoms, common ; off Block Island, 21) fath- 

 oms: very common in Casco Bay and Bay of Fundy, 5 to 100 fathoms; 

 Saint George's Bank, 20 to 85 fathoms. Off New London, Connecticut, 

 (T. M. Prudden). Southern part of Gulf of Saint Lawrence (Whit- 

 eaves). Var. lutea occurs rarely near New Haven (Perkins) ; and more 

 frequently off Gay Head and in Vineyard Sound, 8 to 19 fathoms, with 

 the ordinary varieties. It resembles the European sulcata more than the 

 common or typical varieties do, but passes insensibly into the ordinary 

 forms. The shells referred to undata, by Dawson and Whiteaves, from 



