670 EEPOET OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Teredo meg-otara Hauley. Plate XXVII, fig. 188. (p. 387.) 



Forbes and Hanley, Brit. Conch., vol. i,p. 77, Plate 1, figs. 1, 2; Plate 18, figs. 1, 

 2; vol. iv, p. 247; Tryon, op. cit., p. 466, 1862; Jeffreys op. cit., p. 176; 

 Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 30, fig. 357. 



Massachusetts Bay to South Carolina. Common in floating drift- 

 wood, in the North Atlantic ; north to Greenland, Iceland, and Spits- 

 bergen; coasts of Scandinavia and Great Britain. Fossil in the Post- 

 I Pliocene of Scandinavia. 



Teredo Thomsonii Tryon. Plate XXVII, fig. 187. (p. 387.) 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, vol. xv, p. 28, Plate 2, figs. 3, 4, 5, 1863; 

 Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 31, fig. 358. 



New Bedford, Massachusetts, in cedar buoys (Tryon). Provincetown, 

 Massachusetts, in whale-ship (Atwood). 



Teredo dilatata Stimpson. 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. iv, p. 113, 1851 ; Shells of New England, p. 26 ; 

 Tryon, op. cit., p. 464, 1862 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 32, fig. 359. 



Massachusetts to South Carolina (Tryon). Cape Ann, in buoys, 

 (Stimpson). Provincetown, Massachusetts (Gould). Greenport, Long 

 Island (S. Smith). I have not met with this species south of Cape Cod. 



Xylotrya fimbriata Jeffreys. Plate XXVII, fig. 189. (p. 387.) 



Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. iii, vol. vi, p. 126, 1860 ; Tryon, op. cit., p. 478) 

 1862 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 34, fig. 361. Teredo palnmlata Forbes and 

 Hanley, Brit. Moll., vol. i. p. 86, Plate 2, figs. 9-11, (non Lamarck). Xyl- 

 otrya palmulaia Stimpson, Check-List, p. 3, 1860 ; Perkins, Proc. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. xii, p. 141, 1869. 



Long Island Sound to Florida ; Pacific coast, at the Straits of Faca ; 

 Europe. In an old submerged wreck near New Haven. From the hull 

 of the " Peterhoff," used in the blockade of the southern coast during the 

 late war. Frequent in vessels from foreign ports. 



Pholis truncata Say. Plate XXVII. fig. 200. (p. 372.) 



Journal Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, ser. i, vol. ii, p. 321, 1822 ; Binuey's Say, 

 p. 107 ; Hanley, Recent Shells, p. 6, Plate 9, fig. 26 ; Tryon, op. cit., p. 202 ; 

 Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 38, fig. 364. « 



Vineyard Sound to Florida. Payta, Peru (Tryon). Common on the 

 shores of Long Island Sound, near New Haven. The large specimens 

 from Sable Island (Gould), mentioned by Tryon, were not this species, 

 but Z. crispala. 



Pholas costata Linne. (p. 433.) 



Systema Nature, ed. xii, p. 1111, 1762 ; Tryon, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phila- 

 delphia, xiv. p. 201, 1862 ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 37, fig. 363. 



Caribbean Sea to Buzzard's Bay. Southern Europe (Linne). New 

 Bedford Harbor, living, (Gould); Wood's Hole, Massachusetts, dead 



