INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 677 



Macoma saeulosa Morch. 



Tellina (Macoma) sabulosa Morch, in Naturh. Bidrag til Beskr. af Gronland, p. 

 90, 1857. Tellina sabulosa Spengler, Skrivt. Nat., vol. iv, part 2, 179S. Tellina 

 proximo, Gray, Zool. Beechey's Voyage, p. 154, Plate 44, fig. 4, 1839. Tellina 

 sordida Couthouy, Boston Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. ii, p. 59, Plate 3, fig. 11, 1839. 

 Sanguinolaria sordida Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 67, 1841. Tellina lata Loven> 

 Ofvers. af Kongl. Vet.-Akad., Forhand., vol. xi, p. 195, 1846 (not Tellina lata 

 Ginelin, 1790, which is a Thracia, t. Morch). Tellina calcarea Lyell, Phil. 

 Trans., 1838 (not Chemnitz, 1782 = a Mactra, t. Morch). Macoma proxima 

 Gould, ed. ii, p. 95, fig. 401 ; this Report, p. 503. Macoma calcarea Adams ; 

 Dawson, op. cit., p. 73. 



Connecticut to the Arctic Ocean ; northern coasts of Europe ; North 

 Pacific ; south on the coast of Asia to Hakodadi, Japan ; and, perhaps 

 (as M. expansa, a doubtful variety), on the west coast of America south 

 to Puget Sound. Off Block Island, in 29 fathoms, rare ; Casco Bay, 3 

 to 60 fathoms, not uncommon ; Quahog Bay, Maine, 3 to 5 fathoms, soft 

 mud, large and abundant ; Bay of Fundy, 4 to 80 fathoms. Stonington 

 and Stratford, Connecticut (Linsley) ; Saint George's Bank (S. I. 

 Smith). Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Maine, New Brunswick, Canada, I 

 Labrador, Scandinavia, and Great Britain. ' 



The Tellina tenera Leach, 1818 (non Say), has been regarded as a 

 synonym of this species by most writers ; Morch considers it identical 

 with M. fragilis. 



Angulus tener. Plate XXVI, fig. ISO ; Plate XXX, fig. 223. (p. 358.) 



Tellina (Angulus) tenera it. and A. Adams, Genera, vol. ii, p. 398, 1858. Angu- 

 lus tener Verrill, Amer. Jour. Science, vol. iii, p. 290, Plate 6, figs. 1, la, 

 1872. Tellina ten era Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. ii, p. 303,1822; 

 Hanley, Recent Shells, p. 65, Plate 9, fig. 38 ; Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 68, fig. 44 ; 

 ed.ii, p. 97, fig. 403. t 



Florida to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Common on the coast of Xew 

 Jersey, Long Island, Long Island Sound, Buzzard's Bay, Vineyard Sound, 

 Massachusetts Bay; less common in Casco Bay and Bay of Fundy. 

 Gaspe, Canada (Dawson). Fort Macon, North Carolina (Coues). A 

 closely-allied form (A declivis — Tellina cleclivis Conrad, Journ. Acad. 

 X. Sc, Phil., vol. vii, p. 131) occurs in the Miocene of Virginia. 



Angulus tenellus Verrill. Plate XXX, fig. 224. 



Angulus modestus Verrill, Amer. Jour. Science, vol. iii, pp. 210, 285, Plate 

 6, figs. 2, 2a, 1872 ; this Report, p. 418, (non Carpenter, 1864). 



Shell smooth, shining, more or less iridescent, with very fine concen- 

 tric striae. Form similar to that of A. tener, but more oblong, and with 

 the anterior dorsal margin nearly straight, or even slightly concave ; 

 the beaks are at about the posterior third, and scarcely prominent ; the 

 posterior end slopes rapidly, and is subtruncate at the end,- the ven- 

 tral margin is but slightly convex in the middle, and shb-parallel with 

 the dorsal margin. The shell is often a little thickened, and firmer than 

 in A. tener, but is sometimes as thin. Color, pink, light straw-color, or 



