INVERTEBRATE ANIxklALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 663 



and salt-ponds along the shores of Vine^^ard Sound, Buzzard's Bay, 

 and Long Island Sound. Abundant in a small pond near Holmes' Sole ; 

 in Kew Haven Harbor, in ditches near Fort Hale. 



Cylichna oryza Sfcimpsoa. Plato XXV, fi,^\ 161. (p. 132.) 



Smithsonian Check List, p. 4, 1860 ; Gould, Iiiv^ert., ed. ii, p. 221, fi^. 512. Bulla 

 oryza Totten, Aiusr. Jonr. Science, vol. xsviii, p. 350, fii;. 5, 1835 ; Gould, 

 Invert., ed. 1, p. 163, fig. 93. 



Oape Cod to South Carolina. Xofc unooinmju in Vineyard Sound, 

 Buzzard's Bay, and Long Island Sound. This species was recorded as 

 from Casco Bay by Dr. Mighels, but as this habitat has not been con- 

 firmed subsequently, it was probably based on an erroneous identifica- 

 tion. Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Canada (Dawson). 



Cylichna alba Loven. Plate XXV, fig. 163. (p. 508.) 



Ofversigt af Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Forhandlingar, vol. iii, p. 142, 1843; Gould, 

 Invert., ed. ii, p. 220, fig. 511. Volvaria alba Brown, III. Conch. G. B., iii, p. 

 3, figs. 43,44. Bulla triticea Couthouy, Boston Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. ii, p. 83, 

 Plate 2, fig. 8, 1838 ; Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 165, fig. 98. 



Xear Block Island, northward to the Arctic Ocean ; northern coasts 

 of Earope to Bergen ; and on the northwest coast of America, south to 

 Sitka. Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Canada and Great Britain. 



Most of the specimens of this shell dredged in the Bay of Fundy are 

 opaque, yellowish brown or chestnut color, but those from Casco Bay 

 are nearly all clear white and translucent, although of equal size. 



Uteioulus ganalictjlatus. Plate XXV, fig. 160. (p. 432.) 



Stimpson, Smithsonian Check-List, p. 4, 1860; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 219, fig. 

 510. Volvaria canaliculata Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, vol. 

 V, p. 211, 1826; Binney's Say, p. 121. Bulla canaliculata Gould, Invert., ed. i, 

 p. 166, fig. 97. Tornatina canaliculata H. and A. Adams, Genera, vol. ii, p. 13. 



Massachusetts Bay to South Carolina. Common in Buzzard's Bay and 

 Vineyard Sound, in 2 to 8 fathoms ; less common in Long Island Sound. 

 Fort Macon, Xorth Carolina, abundant, (Dr. Yarrow). Fossil in the 

 Post-Pliocene of Xorth and South Carolina ; and the Pliocene of South 

 Carolina. 



Amphisphyra debilis Verrill. Plate XXV, fig. 162. (p. 432.) 



Bulla debilis Gould, Amer. Journ. Science, ser. i, vol. xxxviii, p. 196, 1840 ; In- 

 vert., ed. i, p. 164, fig. 95, 1841. Diapliana debilis Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 216, 

 fig. 507. Bulla ijellucida Brown, 1844. AmphispTiyra pellucida Lov6n, op. cit., 

 p. 143, 1846. Bulla lyalina Turton, Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. vii, p. 353, 1834, (t- 

 Jeffreys), {non Gmelin). 



Cape Cod to the Arctic Ocean ; and on the northern coasts of Europe, 

 southward to Great Britain, Madeira, etc. Stonington, Connecticut, 

 from stomach of cod (Linsley). Xotuncommon inCascoBay and Bayof 

 Fundy, and northward, in 6 to 50 fathoms. Very rare south of Cape 

 Cod. Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Canada, Great Britain, Xorway, and 

 Sweden. 



