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(?) Venericardia crihraria Say, Amer. Conoli., Part v, cover, 1832; Binney's Say, 

 1). 205. (?) Venericardia granulata Sa,j, J onr. A. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, vol. 

 iv, p. 142, Plate 12, fig. 1. Cardita granulata Conrad, Fossils of Medial Tert. 

 of U. S., p. 13, Plate 7, fig. 1. 



New Jersey to Labrador. Gommori in tlie deeper parts of Vineyard 

 Sound, near its.moutli, and off Gay Head and Bnzzard-s Bay, 10 to 25 

 fathoms; off Block Island, 29 fathoms; very common in CascoBay, Bay 

 of Fundy, and Gulf of Saint Lawrence, 3 to 80 fathoms. Sandy Hook, 

 and Montauk, Long Island (S. Smith). Off New London, Connecticut 

 (T. M. Prudden). Saint George's Bank, 25 to 65 fathoms, (S. L Smith). 

 Straits of Belle Isle, 50 fathoms; Chateau Bay, 50 fathoms ; Long Island, 

 Labrador, 15 fatboms, (Packard). A species, regarded as identical by 

 Dr. Carpenter, occurs on the North Pacific coast of America as far south 

 as Cataliua Island, and on the northeast coast of Asia. 



Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Gardiner's Island; Nantucket and Point 

 Shirley, Massachusetts ; and Labrador. The Miocene form, G. granu- 

 lata (Say, sp.) is very closely allied to this, if not identical. It is found 

 in Virginia and Maryland. 



Cyclooardia Novang-li^ Morse. Plate XXIX, fig. 215. (p. 418.) 



Actinol)olus (Cijclocardia) Nova-angJiw Morse, First Annual Eeport of Trustees 

 of Peabody Acad, of Science, Salera, p. 76, cut, 1863. Cyclocardia Norang- 

 liw Verrill, Amer. Journ. Science, vol. iii, x>. 211, 1872. 



Connecticut to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Mouth of Vineyard Sound 

 and off Gay Head, 10 to 25 fathoms ; Casco Bay, and Bay of Fundy, 

 3 to 40 fathoms, not uncommon. Off New London, Connecticut (T. M. 

 Prudden). 



ASTARTE UNDATA Gould. Plate XXIX, fig. 203. (p. 508.) 



Invert., ed. i, p. 80, fig. 46, 1841 (provisional name); Philippi, Abbildungeu und 

 Beschr. neuer oder wenig gek. Conch., vol. ii, p. 1, Plate 1, fig. 1, 1850 ; Verrill, 

 Amer. Jonr. Science, vol. iii, p. 213, 1872. Crasina latisulca Hanley, Eecent 

 Shells, p. 87, Plate 14, fig. .35, 1843. Astarte sulcata Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 78, 

 fig. 46, 1841 (not of European writers) ; ed. ii, p. 119, fig. 432 (poor figure? 

 from an old, deformed shell). 



Var. lntea= Astarte lutca Perkins, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. xiii, p. 150, 

 figure, 1869. 



Long Island Sound to the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Law- 

 rence. Off Gay Head and Buzzard's Bay, and in the deeper parts o^ 

 Vineyard Sound, 8 to 25 fatlioms, common ; otf Block Island, 29 fath- 

 oms: ver^^ common in Casco Bay and Bay of Fundy, 5 to 100 fathoms; 

 Saint George's Bank, 20 to 85 fathoms. Oft' New London, Connecticut, 

 (T. M. Prudden). Southern part of Gulf of Saint Lawrence (Whit- 

 eaves). Var. lutca occurs rarely near New Haven (Perkins) ; and more 

 frequently off Gay Head and in A^ineyard Sound, 8 to 19 fathoms, with 

 the ordinary varieties. It resembles the European sulcata more than the 

 common or typical varieties do, but i)asses insensibly into the ordinary 

 forms. The shells referred to undata, by Hawson and Whiteaves, from 



