70 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Mass. — Marblehead; Xahant; Pro vince town ; Vineyard Sound 

 and Buzzards Bay, 2 to 10 fathoms. 

 R. I. — Narragansett Bay. 

 Coxx. — Stonington; Stratford; New Haven. 



*Venus mercenaria Linne. 



Linne, Syst. Xat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 686. " Pexsylvania." 

 Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 133, fig. 445. 



Me. — Quahog Bay, in Casco Bay. 



IVIass. — Revere; Pro vincetown ; common south of Cape Cod, 



R. I. — Narragansett Bay; Button woods. 



Coxx. — Common along the entire coast. 



*Venus mercenaria notata Say. 



Venus notaia Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1822, ser. 1, 

 vol. 2, p. 271. " COAST OF THE UNITED States." Gould, Inv. 

 Mass., 1870, p. 135, fig. 446. 



Mass. — Edgarto\Mi. 



R. I.^ — Newport; Buttonwoods. 



Coxx. — Stonington. 



Liocyma fluctuosa (Gould). 



Dall, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1902, vol. 26, p. 364. 

 Venus fluctuosa Gould, Inv. Mass., 1841, p. 87, fig. 50. " Bank 



FISHERIES." 



Tapes fluctuosa Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 136, fig. 447. 

 Me. — Frenchman's Bay, 35 fathoms (Blaney). 



* Gemma gemma (Totten). 



Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 137, fig. 448. 



Venus gemma Totten, Amer. Joum. Sci., 1834, ser. 1, vol. 26, 

 p. 367, pi. 1, fig. 2. " MASSACHUSETTS AND Rhode Islaxd." 



