696 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Maryland. Dag up from beneath the mud in the harbor of Portland, 

 Maine, in a semi fossil state by the mud-dredging machines (Fuller). 



Pecten Islandicus Chemnitz. 



Conch., vii, p. 304, Plate 65, figs. 615, 616, 1784, (t. Gould) ; Lamarck, op. cit., ed. 

 ii, vol. vii, p. 145 ; Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 133, fig. 87 ; ed. ii, p. 198, fig. 495. 

 Ostrea Islandica Miiller, Zool. Dan. Prod., No. 2990, 1776; Fabricius, Fauna, 

 Groul.,p. 415, 1780. Pecten Pealii Conrad, Amer. Mar. Conch., p. 12, Plate 2, 

 fig. 2, 1831. 



Arctic Ocean south to Cape Cod, local and rare farther south ; on the 

 northern European coasts, south to Bergen, Norway, and Great Britain. 

 Not uncommon and of good size in Casco Bay, 20 to 70 fathoms ; com- 

 mon in the Bay of Fandy, low-water to 100 fathoms. Saint George's 

 Bauk, 40 to 65 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). More common farther north. 

 Stonington, Connecticut, in an eel-pot, (Linsley). I am not aware that 

 any one except Linsley has recorded it from the southern coast of New 

 England. 



Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Maine (abundant), New Brunswick, 

 Canada, Labrador, Greenland, Scandinavia, Denmark, Scotland, etc 

 Naples (Jeffreys). Mr. Sanderson Smith reports fragments from Gard. 

 iuer's Lsland. 



PECTEisr TENUioosTATUS Mighels. (p. 509.) 



Mighels and Adams, Proceedings Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 49, 1841 ; Boston 

 Journal of Natural History, vol. iv, p. 41, Plate 4, fig. 7, 1842 (young); Gould, 

 Invert., ed. ii, p. 196, fig. 494. Pecten Magellanicus Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert., ed. 

 ii, vol. vii, p. 134 (? non Gmelin, sp.) ; Hanley, Recent Shells, p. 274 ; Gould, In- 

 vert., ed. i, p. 132. Pecten fuscus Linsley, Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. i, vol. xlviii, p. 

 278, 1845; Gould, ser. ii,vol. vi, p. 235, fig. 6,1848 (young). Pecten hrunneus 

 Stimpson, Shells of New England, in errata^ 1851. 



New Jersey to Labrador. Eare and local south of Cape Cod. Not 

 uncommon in Massachusetts Bay and Casco Bay, 4 to 80 fathoms; 

 abundant in Frenchman's Bay, Mount Desert, Maine, in 3 to 10 fathoms; 

 common in Passamaquoddy Bay and Bay of Fandy, 1 to 109 ftithoms. 

 Saint George's Bank, 45 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). Nova Scotia (Willis). 

 Labrador, 2 to 15 fathoms, (Packard). Olf Block Island (Gould). Ston- 

 ington, Connecticut, in cod stomachs, (Linsley, as P. fuscus). Coney 

 Island and Sandy Hook, New York (S. Smith). 



Fossil in the Post-Pliocene near Saint John, New Brunswick, and 

 Gardiner's Island, New York. A closely related species occurs in the 

 Miocene of Virginia. 



Anomia GLABRA Yerrill. Plate XXXII, figs. 241, 242, 242\ (p. 311.) 



American Jour. Science, vol. iii, p. 213, 1872. Anomia ephl2)i)imn (pars) Liun6, 

 Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1150; Gould, Invert, ed. i, p. 138; ed. ii, p. 204, lig. 497. 

 Anomia electrica Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 140; ed. ii, p. 205, fig. 49i), adult, {non 

 Linnd.) Anomia squamuJa Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 140; ed. ii, p. 200, young, 

 {non Linn6.) 

 Florida to Cape Cod ; rare and local farther north, in Massachusetts 

 Bay, Casco Bay, and on the southern coast of Nova Scotia, off Cape 



