[<!1>7J LNVKKTKIJKATK ANIMALS OF VINKYARD SOUND, F/IC. 403 



Sable, S fjiMioiMS. Xot observed on the eastern purl of tlie roast of 

 Maine, nor in the I Jay of Fundy. Very e.oininon in Long Island Smind, 

 Buzzard's I Jay, Vineyard Sound; along both shores of Lon- Island; 

 New Jersey, and southward ; low-water to 12 fathoms. Southern pan 

 of Saint George's Bank, l0 fathoins, (S. I. Smith). 



Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of North and South Carolina; jusd in the 

 Pliocene of South Carolina. 



Liu uc gave " Pennsylvania " as one of the localities for his A. ephippi- 

 tinij and, therefore, probably confounded our shell with the European 

 species, as most subsequent writers have done. Gould has well described 

 our species in its different states, under the names quoted above, fig- 

 ures 41)9 of the second edition (our figures 241, 242), represent the ordi- 

 nary adult form, which is every where abundant on the southern shores 

 of New England. The specimens from Eastport, Maine, referred to A. 

 ephippium by Gould, were undoubtedly the smooth or squamose variety 

 of the following species. 



ANOMIA ACULEATA Gmelin. Plate XXXII, figs. 239, 240, 240 a . (p. 



495.) 



Syst. Nat., p. 3346, 1790; Gould, Invert., eel. i, p. 139, fig. 90; ed. ii, p. 204, fig. 



498. 



Long Island to Labrador, and northern coasts of Europe. Off Ston- 

 iugton, Connecticut, 4 to 5 fathoms rocky ; off Gay Head, 10 fathoms, 

 scarce $ very common in Casco Ba}^, Bay of Fundy, and northward, low- 

 water to 80 fathoms. Greenport andMontauk, Long Island (S. Smith). 



Varieties of this species occur frequently in the Bay of Fundy and 

 Casco Bay, in which the aculeate scales are more or less abortive, or 

 even entirely absent, leaving the surface either nearly smooth or irregu- 

 larly squamose, but such varieties are easily distinguished from the 

 young of the preceding species. 



This may possibly be a variety of the true ephippium of Europe, as 

 supposed by many writers, but 1 believe it to be perfectly distinct from 

 A. ylabra. 



OSTREA VIRGINIANA Lister, (pp. 310, 472.) 



Favanne, Couch., Plate 41, fig C 2, 1780 (t. Gould) ; Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 136 ; 

 ed. ii, p. 202; Verrill, Amer. Jour. Science, vol. iii, p. 213, 1872. fMw I'iryui- 

 ica Gmelin, Sj'st. Nat., p. 3336, 1790 ; Lamarck, Aniin. sans Vert., ed. ii, vol. vii, 

 p. 225. Ostrea boredlis Lamarck, op. cit., p. 220; Gould, Invert., 'd. i, p. 137; 

 ed. ii, p. 203; Dekay, op. cit., p. 169, Plate 10, figs. 203, 204. Ostrea Ctitnw- 

 Bruguiere, Encycl. Meth., Plate 180, figs. 1-3 ; Lamarck, op. cit., p. 226 ; Han- 

 ley, Recent Shells, p. 299. 



Florida and the northen shores of the Gulf of Mexico to Massachu- 

 setts Bay 5 local farther north, off Damariscotta, Maine, and in the 

 southern part of the Gulf of 'Saint Lawrence, at Prince Kdward 

 Island, in Northumberland Straits, and Bay of Chalenr. Not found 

 along the eastern shores of Maine, nor in the Bay of Fundy. Abundant 



