INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 663 



and salt-ponds along the shores of Vineyard Sound, Buzzard's Bay, 

 and Long Island Sound. Abuudant in a small pond near Holmes' Hole; 

 in New Haven Harbor, in ditches near Fort Hale. 



Cylichna oryza Stimpsoa. Plate XXV, fig. 164. (p. 432.) 



Smithsonian Check -List, p. 4, 1360 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 221, fig. 512. Bulla 

 oryza Totten, Araer. Jour. Science, vol. xxviii, p. 350, fig. 5, 1835 ; Gould, 

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



Cape Cod to South Carolina. Not uncommon i:i 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, 1846; Gould, 

 Invert., ed. ii, p. 220, fig. 511. Yolvaria alba Brown, 111. Conch. G. B., iii, p. 

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

 Plate 2, fig. 8, 1838 ; Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 165, fig. 93. 



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

 of Europe 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 Fiindy are 

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

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



Utrioulus canaliculatus. 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, North Carolina, abundant, (Dr. Yarrow). Fossil in the 1 

 Post-Pliocene of North 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. xxsviii, p. 196, 1840 ; In- 

 vert., ed. i, p. 164, fig. 95, 1841. Diaphana debilis Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 21G, 

 fig. 507. Bulla pellucida Brown, 1844. Amphisphyra pellucida Love"n, op. cit. ; 

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

 Jeffreys), (mow Gmelin). 



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

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

 from stomach of cod (Linsley). Not uncommon in Casco Bay and Bay of 

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

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

 Sweden. 



