114 THE NAUTILUS. 
In connection with this work I have endeavored to learn what 
work has already been done on the Mollusca of Staten Island. 
The literature is as follows: 
Wheatley, Charles M., Catalogue of the Shells of the United 
States and their Localities, 12 pp., 1842 & 1845. 
Eleven species are here listed as coming from 8. I., of which 
Periploma leanum, Pandora gouldiana, Lyonsia hyalina and Astarte 
castanea are mentioned as fairly common or abundant. The 
last one I have not as yet found on the island although it is 
found on the Long Island ocean beaches in increasing abund- 
ance with distance from the city. 
DeKay, James E., Nat. Hist. of N. Y., Zodlogy of N. Y., 
Mollusca, 271 pp., 40 pls., 1843. 
Pandora gouldiana, Pholas truncata, Odostomia trifida, ieee: 
bella avara and C. lunata are recorded from the island on the 
authority of Wheatley. 
Hubbard, Eber’ Ward & Smith, Sanderson, Catalogue of the 
Mollusca of Staten Island, Annals of the Lyceum of Nat. Hist. 
of N. Y., vol. 7, pp. 151-154, 1865. 
This paper is revised in: 
Smith, S., Catalogue of the Mollusca of 8. I., Nat. Sci. Ass. 
of S. I., Proc., vol. 1, p. 35,1886 and p. 50, 1887. 
Of the 78 species listed, Solemya velum, Yoldia limatula, Nucula 
proxima, Venericardia borealis, Rochefortia planulata, Cardiwm 
mortoni, Cumingia tellinoides, Siliqua costata, Zirfaea crispata, 
Epitonium lineata, E. humphreysii, Triphoris perversa nigrocincta, 
Cerithiopsis greenti, Bittium alternatum, Columbella avara, Man- 
gilia cerina (M. plicata not mentioned), and Acteon punctostriata 
are the rarer species listed. Anomia aculeata, Pholas costata, 
Martesia smithii, Litorina irrorata, Natica pusilla, Alectrion vibex 
and Haminea solitaria are of special rarity. Ido not know of 
their having been again reported from the vicinity of the city. 
Astarte castanea is included on authority of Wheatley. The list 
is largely based on dredgings made about the southern end of 
the island by Hubbard whose collection was later sold to Crooke, 
whose collection now forms part of the American Museum col- 
'The ‘* J’’ in the literature is an error. 
