684 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



(?) Venericardia crioraria Say, Amer. Conch., Part v, cover, 1832; Binney's Say, 

 p. 205. (?) Venericardia granulata Say, Jour. A. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, vol. 

 iv, p. 142, Plate 12, .fig. 1. Cardita granulata Conrad, Fossils of Medial Tert. 

 of U. S.,p. 13, Plate 7, fig. 1. 



New Jersey to Labrador. Common in the deeper parts of Yineyard 

 Sound, near its mouth, and off Gay Head and Buzzard's Bay, LO to 25 

 fathoms ; off Block Island, 29 fathoms ; very common in Casco Bay, Bay 

 of Fundy, and Gulf of Saint Lawrence, 3 to 80 fathoms. Sandy Hook, 

 and Montauk, Long Island (S. Smith). Off New London, Connecticut 

 (T. M. Prudden). Saint George's Bank, 25 to 65 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). 

 Straits of Belle Isle, 50 fathoms ; Chateau Bay, 50 fathoms ; Long Island, 

 Labrador, 15 fathoms, (Packard). A species, regarded as identical by 

 Dr. Carpenter, occurs on the North Pacific coast of America as far south 

 as Catalina Island, and on the northeast coast of Asia. 



Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Gardiner's Island; Nantucket and Point 

 Shirley, Massachusetts ; and Labrador. The Miocene form, C. granu- 

 lata (Say, sp.) is very closely allied to this, if not identical. It is found 

 in Virginia anal Maryland. 



Cyclocardia Novanglije Morse. Plate XXIX, fig. 215. (p. 418.) 



Actinobolus (Cyclocardia) Nova-anglkc Morse, First Annual Report of Trustees 

 of Peabody Acad, of Science, Salern, p. 76, cut, 1869. Cyclocardia Novang- 

 lice Verrill, Arner. Journ. Science, vol. iii, p. 211, 1872. 



Connecticut to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Mouth of Yineyard Sound 

 and off Gay Head, 10 to 25 fathoms ; Casco Bay, and Bay of Fundy, 

 3 to 40 fathoms, not uncommon. Off New London, Connecticut (T. M. 

 Prudden). 



Astarte undata Gould. Plate XXIX, fig. 203. (p. 508.) • 



Invert., -ed. i, p. 80, fig. 46, 1841 (provisional name); Philippi, AbbilduDgen und 

 Beschr. nener oder wenig gek. Conch., vol. ii, p. 1, Plate 1, fig. 1, 1850 ; Verrill, 

 Amer. Jour. Science, vol. iii, p. 213, 1872. Crasina latisulca Hanley, Recent 

 Shells, p. 87, Plate 14, fig. 35, 1843. Astarte sulcata Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 78, 

 fig. 46, 1841 (not of European writers) ; ed. ii, p. 119, fig. 432 (poor figure* 

 from an old, deformed shell). 



Var. lutea — Astarte lutea Perkins, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. xiii, p. 150, 

 figure, 1869. 



Long Island Sound to the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Law- 

 rence. Off Gay Head and Buzzard's Bay, and in the deeper parts of 

 Yineyard Sound, 8 to 25 fathoms, common ; off Block Island, 29 fath- 

 oms; very common in Casco Bay and Bay of Fundy, 5 to 100 fathoms; 

 Saint George's Bank, 20 to 85 fathoms. Off New Loudon, Connecticut, 

 (T. M. Prudden). Southern part of Gulf of Saint Lawrence (Whit- 

 eaves). Yar. lutea occurs rarely near New Haven (Perkins) ; and more 

 frequently off Gay Head and in Yineyard Sound, S to 19 fathoms, with 

 the ordinary varieties. It resembles the European sulcata more than the 

 common or typical varieties do, but passes insensibly into the ordinary 

 forms. The shells referred to unflata, by Dawson and YVhiteaves, from 



