INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 685 



Gaspe, Canada, are not this species, bat a short variety of A. elliptica. 

 The latter is a much more northern shell, and I have dredged but one 

 specimen on the New England coast (off Oasco Bay, 65 fathoms). 



Fossil at Point Shirley, Massachusetts, iu the Post-Pliocene, (Stimp- 

 son, as A. sulcata) ; and at Gardiner's Island (S. Smith). 



Astarte castanea Say. Plate XXIX, fig. 204. (p. 432.) 



American Conchology, Part i, 1830, Plate 1 ; Biuney's Say, p. 150, Plate 1 ; Gould, 

 Invert., eel. i, p. 76, fig. 45; ed. ii, p. 117, fig. 431. Venus castanea Say, Journ. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., Pliilad., vol. ii, p. 273, 1822; Biuney's Say, p. 96. % Crassina 

 castanea Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert., ed. ii ; vol. vi, p. 258 ; Hanley, Recent 

 Shells, p. 88, Plate 9, fig. 27. 



Great Egg Harbor, Xew Jersey, to Xova Scotia. Common on the 

 shores of Long Island, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Cape Cod; 

 Long Island Sound, not very common ; Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's 

 Bay, 5 to 20 fathoms, frecpaent; Casco Bay and Bay of Eundy, 5 to 20 

 fathoms, not common. Massachusetts Bay, abundant, (t. Gould). Saint 

 George's Bank, 25 to 40 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). Halifax and Sable 

 Island, Xova Scotia (Willis). Off Cape Sable, Xova Scotia (A. E. V.). 

 Off New London, Connecticut (T. M. Prndden). Fossil iu the Post-[ 

 Pliocene at Nantucket and Point Shirley, Massachusetts. I 



Astarte quadrans Gould. Plate XXIX, fig. 205. (p. 509.) 



Invert., ed. i, p. 81, fig. 48, 1841; ed. ii, p. 123, fig. 434 ; Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci., 

 vol. iii, p. 237, 1872. Astarte Portlandica Mighels, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. iv, pp. 320, 345, Plate 16, fig. 2, 1843 (variety.) ; Gould, Invert., ed. ii, p. 

 127, fig. 441. 



Stonington, Connecticut, to Gulf of'Saint Lawrence. Mouth of Vine- 

 yard Sound, and off Martha's Vineyard, 19 to 25 fathoms, rare ; Massa- 

 chusetts Bay; Casco Bay; Bay of Fundy, in 6 to 40 fathoms, not un- 

 common. Saint George's Bank (S. I. Smith). Gulf of Saint Lawrence 

 (Whiteaves). 



Var. Portlandica occurs, with intermediate forms, in Casco Bay and 

 Bay of Fundy, 10 to 25 fathoms, not common. 



Gotjlbia mactracea Gould. Plate XXIX, figs. 206, 207. (p. 418.) 



Invert., ed. ii, p. 128, fig. 442, 1870. Astarte mactracea Linsley, Amer. Jour. Sci., 

 vol. xlviii, p. 275 (figure), 1845 ; Gould, op. cit., ser. ii, vol. vi, p. 233, figs. 1. 

 2, 184S. (?) Astarte tunulata Conrad, Jour. Acad. Nat. SViences, Philad., vol. 

 vii, p. 151, 1837 ; Fossils of the Medial Tertiary of the U. S.,p. 45, Plate 21, fig. 

 8, 1840; Gouldia lunulata Conrad, Catal. of Miocene Shells, in Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. xiv, p. 578, 1862. 



Florida and northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico to Cape Cod. 

 Common, living, and of large size, in Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's 

 Bay, especially at Wood's Hole, 3 to 10 fathoms. Stonington,_ in 

 stomach of cod (Linsley). Huntington and Greenport, Long Island 

 (S. Smith). Off Xew London, Connecticut (coll. T. M. Prudden). Fort 

 Macon (Cones). South Carolina (Kurtz). West Florida (E. Jewett). 

 Tampa Bay (Conrad). 



