INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OE VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 645 



of the last whorl, but these are frequently absent. Length of a rather 

 large specimen, I7 mm ; breadth, 7 mm ; length of an average specimen, 

 13 mm ; breadth, 5 mm ; length of a slender specimen, 15 mra ; breadth, 5" 



vmra 



Astyris lunata Dall. Plate XXI, fig. 110. (p. 306.) 



Proceedings Boston Soc. Natural History, vol. xiii, p. 242, 1870. Nassa lunata Say, 

 Journal Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, vol. v, p. 213, 1826. Buecinum 

 lunatum Adams, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. ii, p. 226; Gould, Invert, of 

 Mass., ed i., p. 312, fig. 196. Columbella lunata Gould, op. ciL, ed. ii, p. 359, 

 fig. 629. Fusus TrumbulU Gould, Amer. Journ. Science, vol. vi, p. 235, fig. 7, 

 1848, (non Linsley). Buecinum Wheatleyi Dekay, Nat. Hist, of New York, 

 Mollusca, p. 132, Plate 7, fig. 162, 1843. Columbella Gouldiana Ag. MSS. ; Stimp- 

 son, Shells of New England, p. 48, 1851 ; Smith, Annals Lyceum Nat. Hist, 

 of New York, vol. viii, p. 398, fig. 5, 1365. Astyris " limata Say " and A. 

 "Turnbullii Linsl.," H. and A. Adaui3, Genera, vol. i, p. 187 (typographical 

 errors). 



._ Massachusetts Bay to Northern Florida and the northern shores of 

 the Gulf of Mexico ; local and not abundant north of Cape Cod, at Prov- 

 incetown, Nahant, and Swampscott, Massachusetts. Yery abundant in 

 Vineyard Sound, from low-water to 10 fathoms ; and in Long Island 

 Sound ; Great South Bay, Long Island ; and Great Egg Harbor, New 

 Jersey; Fort Macon, North Carolina, and southward. Estella Pass, 

 Florida (Jewe,tt) ; Georgia (Couper). 



Fossil in the Post-Pliocene deposits of South Carolina, 1 and at Gardiner's) 

 Island, New York (S. Smith); and in the Pliocene of South Carolina.) 



The color- variety, separated by several writers as G. Gouldiana, is 

 identical with the Wheatleyi of Dekay. 



Astyris zoNALisVerrill. Plate XXI, fig. 111. (p. 399.) 



Buecinum zonalis Linsley, American Journal of Science, ser. i, vol. slviii, p. 285, 

 1845 (no description) ; Gould, Amer. Journ. Science, series ii, vol. vi, p. 236, 

 fig. 8, 1848. Columbella dissimilis Stimpson, Proceedings Boston Soc. Nat. 

 History, vol. iv, p. 114, 1851 ; Shells of New England, p. 47,1851 ; Gould, Invert, 

 of Mass., ed. ii, p. 358, fig. 628. 



Long Island Sound, near New Haven; Vineyard Sound ; Casco Bay ; 

 Eastport, Maine, 10 to 60 fathoms. Grand Menan, New Brunswick, 

 in 8 fathoms, sand, (Stimpson). Stonington (Linsley). 



Astyris rosacea H. and A. Adams, (p. 508.) 



Genera of Recent Mollusca, vol. i, p. 187, 1858. Buecinum rosaceum Gould, Ameri- 

 can Journal of Science, xxxviii, p. 197, 1840; Invert, of Mass., ed. i, p. 311, 

 fig. 195, 1841. Columbella rosacea Stimpson, Shells of New England, p. 47, 

 1851; Gould, Invert, of Mass., ed. ii, p. 257, fig. 627. (l)Fusus Eolbollii 

 Moller, Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, vol. iv, p. 88, 1842. 



East of Block Island, 29 fathoms, fine sandy mud; Stonington, Con- 

 necticut (Linsley) ; Massachusetts Bay to Gulf of Saint Lawrence; Isles of 

 Shoals, 20 fathoms, and West Isles, 10 fathoms (Stimpson) ; Casco Bay, 

 10 to 20 fathoms ; Bay of Fundy, 8 to 60 fathoms ; Sable Island, Nova 

 Scotia (Willis) ; Grand Menan, in deep water, (Stimpson). 



