244 NEW-YORK FAUNA MOLLUSCA. 



posterior end. Surface with a thick epidermis, and coarsely wrinkled concentrically. Hinge 

 with two curved cardinal teeth, with a thickened callus behind, to which the ligament is 

 attached ; two teeth, or rather a bifid tooth, in the other. 



Color. Epidermis straw-colored ; darker at the extremities. 



Vertical axis, 0'8 - 1*5 ; transverse ditto, 2"6 - 4'0. 



This species occurs along the southern coast, and extends northwardly nearly to Cape 

 Cod. It has been observed near Rye, Westchester county, by Dr. J. C. Jay. 



(EXTRA-LIMITAL.) 



S.fragilis, Montagu. (S. centralis, Say. Ac. Sc. Vol. 2, p. 316. S.fragilis, Conrad, Conch, pi. 

 4, fig-. 1. Gould, p. 31.) SItrII small and delicate, transversely oblong-ovate, compressed, 

 arcuated, equilateral. Hinge with two large ascending teeth in each valve ; in the left valve, one 

 is broad and emarginate at the tip. Color : epidermis yellowish. A reddish purple band passes 

 from the beaks across the shell. Vertical axis, 0*5 ; transverse ditto, 1 '5 - 2-0. Massachusetts, 

 Southern coast. 



GENUS MACHiERA. Gould. 



Animal not much larger than the shell. Edges of the mantle pectinated from near the siphon 

 to the hinge, except where they pass over the foot : similar appearances along their inner 

 submargin near the siphon. Labial appendages long, extending quite across the foot, 

 pointed. Branchiae extending to the opening of the siphon, and embracing about half the 

 breadth of the foot. Foot hatchet-shaped, dilating towards its extremity, which is obliquely 

 truncated. Siphons united at their tips, which have scattered hairs. Shell transversely 

 oblong-oval, compressed, inequilateral, moderately gaping : beaks minute. Hinge with 

 three diverging cardinal teeth in the left valve ; the middle one bifid ; the third compressed, 

 delicate, taking the direction of the margin, or obsolete : on the right valve, two entering 

 between those of the opposite valve. Within, usually crossed by a strong longitudinal 

 rib. Muscular impressions joined by a deeply sinuous palleal line : ligament prominent. 



Mach^era costata. 



PLATE XXXn. FIG. 301. i. B. 



(STATE COLLECTION.) 



Solen costatus. Sav, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Vol.2, p. 315. 



Solecvjtus id. Id, Am. Conchology, pi. 18, 



S. id. CoNKAD, Am. Mar. Conch, p. 21.pl. 4, fig, 2. Gould, InTcrtebrata of Mass, p, 34. 



Description. Shell thin and fragile, oval-oblong, much compressed ; ends unequally rounded ; 

 basal margin regularly and widely curved. Beaks very minute, and at the anterior fourth of 



