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Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Nantucket, Gardiner's Island, Virginia, 

 North and South Carolina ; and in the Miocene of Virginia and North 

 Carolina. According to Gould, found fossil at Provincetown, Massa- 

 chusetts, in an artesian boring, 120 to 200 feet beneath the surface, 

 (Post-Pliocene ?) 



ARGINA PEXATA Gray. Plate XXX, fig. 227. (p. 309.) 



Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1847; H. and A. Adams, Genera, vol. ii, p. 540, Plate 

 125, figs. 7, la, 1858. Area pexata Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad., vol. ii 

 p. 268, 1822 ; Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 95, tig. 60 ; ed. ii, p. 147, fig. 456. 



Florida and northern shores of Gulf of Mexico to Cape Cod ; rare 

 and local farther north, in Massachusetts Bay. Very common in Long 

 Island Sound, low-water to 10 fathoms ; Buzzard's Bay ; Vineyard 

 Sound ; Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey. On beach at Provincetown, 

 Massachusetts (S. 1. Smith). Stateu Island and Long Island, abun- 

 dant (S. Smith). Fort Macon, North Carolina (Yarrow). Georgia 

 (Couper). West Florida (Jewett). Texas (Rcemer). 



Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Gardiner's Island (!) (S. Smith) ; in the 

 .Miocene of South Carolina. 



ARCA PONDEROSA Say. 



Journ. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, vol. ii, p. 267, 1822; Biuney's Say, p. 92. 



This species occurs on the beach at Edjgartown, Martha's Vineyard, 

 associated with the other common sand-dwelling shells of that region. 

 The valves are apparently tolerably fresh, though worn, and no fossil 

 shells have been found in that vicinity. It occurs in the same way on 

 ithe southern side of Long Island, near Fire Island (S. I. Smith and S- 

 Smith). But I am not aware that it has been found living north of 

 Cape Hatteras; nevertheless, it may occur locally in shallow water off 

 shore. The specimens found may possibly have been washed out from 

 submerged Post-Pliocene deposits. 



It is found living at Fort Macon, North Carolina, and southward to 

 the Gulf of Mexico. 



HETEROMYARIA. 

 MYTILUS EDULIS Linne\ Plate XXXI, fig. 234. (pp. 307, 432.) 



Systema Naturse, ed. xii, p. 1157, 1767; Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 121, fig. 82; ed. 

 ii, p. 183, figs. 483, 484. Mytilm borealis Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert., ed. ii, 

 vol. vii, p. 46 ; Dekay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., Moll., p. 182, Plate 13, fig. 222, Plate 

 24, fig. 256. Mytilm pellnddiis Pennant, Brit. Zool., vol. iv, p. 237, Plate 66, fig. 

 3, (t. Gould) === variety pellticidus Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 184, fig. 484. Mytilus 

 notatus Dekay, op. cit., p. 182, Plate 13, tig. 223, 1843. 



'Circumpolar : Arctic Ocean south to North Carolina, on the American 

 coast; south to Great Britain, France, and the Mediterranean and 

 Black Seas, on the European coast ; south to Monterey and San Fran- 

 cisco, on the North Pacific coast; south to China and Japan, on the 

 Asiatic coast. Very abundant in Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, Long 





