[/>-:>] INVKUTKHRATK ANIMALS OF VINKYAKI) BOUND, ETC, 



Gaspr, Canada, are not this species, but ;i short variety ( ,r A.flHjtlim. 

 The latter is a much more northern shell, and I Imvr <lnv one 



specimen on the New England coast (oil (J;ise<> IJay, <>~> fathoms). 



Fossil at Point Shirley, Massachusetts, in the I Vst I Miocene, (Si imp- 

 son, as A. sulcata) ; and at Gardiner's Island (S. Smith). 



ASTARTE CASTANEA Say. Plate XXIX, fig. 204. (p. 4:52.) 



American Conchology, Part i ; 1830, Plate 1; Biuney's Say, p. 150, JM.it.- 1 ; (Joul.l, 

 Invert., ed. i, p. 76, fig. 45; ed. ii, p. 117, fig. 431. Venus castanea Say, .Jonni. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. ii, p. 273, 1822; Binuey's Say, p. 96, 

 castanea Lamarck, Anirn. sans Vert., ed. ii, vol. vi, p. 253; Hanlcy, liccent 

 Shells, p. 88, Plate 9, fig. 27. 



Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, to Nova Scotia. Common on tlje 

 shores of Long Island, Nautucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Cape Cod; 

 Long Island Sound, not very common; Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's 

 Bay, 5 to 20 fathoms, frequent; Casco Bay and Bay of Fundy, o to 20 

 fathoms, not common. Massachusetts Bay, abundant, (t. Gould). Saint 

 George's Bank, 25 to 40 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). Halifax and Sable 

 Island, Nova Scotia (Willis). Off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia (A. E. V.). 

 Off New London, Connecticut (T. M. Prudden). Fossil in the Post- 

 Pliocene at Nantucket and Point Shirley,- Massachusetts. 



ASTARTE QUADRANS Gould. Plate XXIX, fig. 205. (p. 509.) 



Invert., ed. i, p. 81. fig. 48, 1841; ed. ii, p. 123, fig. 434 ; Verrill, Ainer. Journ. Sci., 

 vol. iii, p. 287, 1872. Astarte Portlandica Migliels, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. iv, pp. 320, 345, Plate 16, fig. 2, 1843 (variety) ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 

 127, fig. 441. 



Stonington, Connecticut, to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Mouth of Vine- 

 yard Sound, and off Martha's Vineyard, 19 to 25 fathoms, rare ; Massa- 

 chusetts Bay 5 Casco Bay; Bay of Fundy, in 6 to 40 fathoms, not un- 

 common. Saint George's Bank (S. I. Smith). Gulf of Saint Lawrence 

 fWhiteaves). 



Var. Portlandica occurs, with intermediate forms, in Casco Bay and 

 Bay of Fundy, 10 to 25 fathoms, not common. 



GOULDIA MACTRACEA Gould. Plate XXIX, figs. 20G, 207. (p. 418.) 



Invert., ed. ii, p. 128, fig. 442, 1870. Astarte mactracea Linsley, Amer. Jour. Sci., 

 vol. xlviii, p. 275 (figure), 1845 ; Gould, op. cit., ser. ii, vol. vi, p. 233, figs. 1. 

 2, 1848. (f)Astarte lunulata Conrad, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad., vol. 

 vii, p. 151, 1837 ; Fossils of the Medial Tertiary of the U. S.,p. 45, Plate 21, fig. 

 8, 1840; Gouldia lunulata Conrad, Catal. of Miocene Shells, in Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. xiv, p. 578, 1862. 



Florida and northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico to Cape Cod. 

 Common, living, and of large size, in Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's 

 Bay, especially at Wood's Hole, 3 to 10 fathoms. Stonington, in 

 stomach of cod (Linsley). Huntington and Greenport, Long Island 

 (S. Smith). Off New London, Connecticut (coll. T. M. Prudden). Fort 

 Macon (Coues). South Carolina (Kurtz). West Florida (E. Jewett). 

 Tampa Bay (Conrad). 



