INVERTEBRATi; ANIMALS OE^ VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 685 



Gaspe, Canada, are not this species, bat a short variety of A. elliptica. 

 The latter is a much more northern shell, and I have dredged but one 

 specimen on the Xew England coast (off Casco Bay, 65 fathoms). 



Fossil at Point Shirley, Massachusetts, in the Post-Pliocene, (Stimp- 

 son, as A. sulcata) ; and at Gardiner's Island (S. Smith). 



ASTARTE CASTANEA Say. Plate XXIX, fig. 204. (p. 432.) 



American Conchology, Part i, 1830, Plate 1 ; Biuney's Say, p. 150, Plate 1 ; Gould, 

 Invert., ed. i, p. 76, fig. 45; ed. 11, p. 117, fig. 431. Venus castanea Say, Journ. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. ii, p. 273, 1822 ; Binney's Say, p. 96. Crassina 

 castanea Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert., ed. ii, vol. vi, p. 258 ; Hanley, Recent 

 Shells, p. 88, Plate 9, fig. 27. 



Great Egg Harbor, Xew Jersey, to Xova Scotia. Common on the 

 shores of Long Island, Xantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Cape Cod : 

 Long Island Sound, not very common; Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's 

 Bay, 5 to 20 fathoms, frequent; Casco Bay and Bay of Eundy, 5 to 20 

 fathoms, not common. Massachusetts Bay, abundant, (t. Gould). Saint 

 George's Bank, 25 to 40 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). Halifax and Sable 

 Island, Xova Scotia (Willis). Off' Cape Sable, Xova Scotia (A. E. V.). 

 Off" Xew London, Connecticut (T. M. Prudden). Fossil in the Post- 

 Pliocene at Xantucket and Point Shirley, Massachusetts. 



ASTARTE QUADRAIN^S Gould. Plate XXIX, fig. 205. (p. 509.) 



Invert., ed. i, j). 81, fig. 48, 1841; ed. ii, p. 123, fig. 434 ; Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci., 

 vol. iii, p. 287, 1872. Astarte Porflandica Mighels, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. iv, pp. 320, 345, Plate 16, fig. 2, 1843 (variety) ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 

 127, fig. 441. 



Stonington, Connecticut, to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Mouth of Vine- 

 yard Sound, and off Martha's Vineyard, 19 to 25 fathoms, rare ; Massa- 

 chusetts Bay; Casco Bay; Bay of Fund}^, in 6 to 40 fathoms, not un- 

 common. Saint George's Bank (S. I. Smith). Gulf of Saint Lawrence 

 ^Whiteaves). 



Var. Fortlaridica occurs, with intermediate forms, in Casco Bay and 

 Bay of Fundy, 10 to 25 fathoms, not common. 



GOULDIA MACTRACEA Gould. Plate XXIX, figs. 206, 207. (p. 418.) 



Invert., ed. ii, p. 128, fig. 442, 1870. Astarte mactracea Linsley, Amer. Jour. Sci., 

 vol. xlviii, p. 275 (figure), 1845 ; Gould, op. cit., ser. ii, vol. vi, p. 233, figs. 1. 

 2, 1643. {f)Astarte luniilata Courad, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad., vol. 

 vii, p. 151, 1837 ; Fossils of the Medial Tertiary of the U. S., p. 45, Plate 21, fig. 

 8, 1S40; Gouldia lunulata Conrad, Catal. of Miocene Shells, in Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. xiv, p. 578, 1862. 



Florida and northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico to Cape Cod. 

 Common, living, and of large size, in Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's 

 Bay, especially at Wood's Hole, 3 to 10 fathoms. Stonington, in 

 stomach of cod (Linsley). Huntington and Greenport, Long Island 

 (S. Smith). Oft' Xew London, Connecticut (coll. T. M. Prudden). Fort 

 Macon (Coues). South Carolina (Kurtz). AVest Florida (E. Jewett). 

 Tampa Bay (Conrad). 



