76 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



R. I. 



Co NX. — New Haven. 



Siliqua squama (Blainville). 



Solecurtus squama Blainville, Diet, des Sci. Xat., 1827, vol. 49, 

 p. 419. " Terre-Xeu%'e." 



Machaera squama Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 46, fig. 369. 



Not unfrequently taken from the stomachs of codfish caught at 

 the Banks and sometimes off our shores (Gould). 



MACTRIDAE. 

 *Spisula (Hemimactra) solidissima (Dillw^m). 



Dall, Nautilus, 1894, vol. 8, p. 26. 



Madra solidissima Dillw;yTij Cat. Recent Shells, 1817, vol 1, 

 p. 140. "North America." Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 73, 

 fig. 387. 



Me. to CoxN. — The Common Beach Clam or Hen Clam. 



Spisula (Hemimactra) solidissima similis (Say). 



Madra similis Say, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1822, ser.l, 



vol. 2, p. 309. " COAST OF THE UxiTED StATES." 



Mass. — Provincetown. 



R. I. 



Conn. 



*Spisula (Hemimactra) polynyma (Stimpson). 



Madra 'polynytna Stimpson, Smithson. Misc. Coll., 1860, vol. 2, 

 art. 6, no. 3, p. 3. 



Madra ovalis Gould, Inv. Mass., 1841, p. 53^ fig. 32 {non Sowerby, 

 1817). Gould, Inv. Mass., 1870, p. 75, fig. 388. 



Me. — Casco Bay; Frenchman's Bay; Eastport; Penobscot 

 Bay. 



Mass. — Massachusetts Bay; Georges Bank. 



