BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WOODS HOLE AND VICINITY. 



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Sthenclais gracilis Verrill. 



Verrill, 1879, p. 166 (sp. nov.; also described as 



5. emertoni; not recorded locally). 

 Western end of Vineyard Sound and Bay side of 



Cuttyhunk; 5 to 17 fathoms, sand. Survey. 

 Fish Hawk stations: 7685 (several)*, 7687 (3)*. 

 Phalarope station 102 (i)*. 



Sigalion arenicola Verrill. 



Verrill, 1879, p. 167 (sp. nov.). 

 Vineyard Sound and off Nantucket; 10 to 20 

 fathoms, clean silicious sand. Verrill. A 

 specimen doubtfully so identified by Dr. 

 Moore was taken at the eastern end of Vine- 

 yard Sound, in 10 fathoms, on shelly bottom 

 (Fish Hawk station 7546 bis). 



Family APHRODITID/E. 



?Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus. a 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 580, 507. 

 Off Gay Head, in 15 to 19 fathoms, on muddy 

 bottom, common. Verrill. 



Aphrodita hastata Moore. b 



Moore, 1905, p. 294 (sp. nov.). 



Nantucket, on beach after storm (type specimen 

 and several others collected by Dr. Benjamin 

 Sharp); No Mans Land, in lobster pots (V. N. 

 Edwards, col.); dredged by the Fish Hawk in 

 the deeper waters of the same region. Moore. 

 Gay Head * (G. M. Gray, col.). A specimen, 

 presumably of this species, was taken on a trawl 

 line, off Sow and Pigs Ledge, in March, 1909. 



Family AMPHINOMID^. 



Amphinome pallasii Quatrefages. 



Woods Hole, August, 1903*; carried in from 

 Gulf Stream, on floating logs, overgrown with 

 Lepas anatifera, upon which the worm feeds. 



Hipponoe gaudichaudi Audouin & Milne Edwards. 



Moore, 1903, p. 793. 



Woods Hole and Vineyard Sound, drifting in 

 from Gulf Stream on logs bearing Lepas anati- 

 fera; recorded for summers of 1903, 1904, 1906, 

 being sexually mature when taken. 



Family NEPHTHYDID^. 



Nephthys incisa Malmgren. [Chart 57.] 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 583, 431, etc. (Neph- 

 thys ingenf. The "Nephthys ingens" of Verrill 

 is not that of Stimpson). 



Nephthys incisa Continued. 



Common throughout the entire length of Buz- 

 zards Bay ; recorded but three times from Vine- 

 yard Sound; dredged in 4 to 19 fathoms, mud 

 and muddy sand. Survey. Verrill's only 

 local record, so far as we can find, referred to 

 specimens from the stomach of a skate taken in 

 Vineyard Sound. 



Fish Hawk stations*: 7540 (i), 7611 (many), 

 7612 (i), 7617 (several), 7618 (i), 7619 (several), 

 7623 (many small), 7624 (several), 7629 (i 

 fragment), 7637 (abundant), 7638 (abundant), 

 7640 (many), 7641 (common), 7642 (manyj, 

 7643 (many), 7645 (i), 7646 (several), 7647 (sev- 

 eral), 7648 (i), 7649 (several), 7650 (several), 

 7651 (abundant), 7652 (common), 7653 (com- 

 mon), 7654 (common), 7655 (abundant), 7656 

 (several), 7657 (common), 7660 (many), 7661 

 (plentiful), 7662 (many), 7663 (several), 7669 

 (several), 7670 (i), 7673 (common), 7698 (i). 



Phalarope stations *: 52 (i fragment), 78 (4 

 small), 79 (common), 80 (i small), 84 (i), 143 

 (2), 159 (4), 160(1), 161 (several), 162 (several), 

 164 (3), 165 (4), 166 (several). 



Nephthys ciliata Rathke. 



Ehlers, 1868; Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 583. 

 Edgarto wn . Ehlers . 



Nephthys bucera Ehlers. [Chart 58.] 



Ehlers, 1868, p. 617, 632; Verrill and Smith, 1873, 



p. 583, 416, 348, etc. (Nephthys bucera and N. 



picta). 

 Vineyard Sound. Verrill. Scattered stations 



throughout the Bay and Sound; dredged in 3 



to 17 fathoms, chiefly on sand and gravel. 



Survey. Naushon side of Robinsons Hole, on 



mud flat* (L. J. Cole, col.). 

 Fish Hawk stations*: 7533 bis (i), 7556 bis (i), 



7648 (i), 7667 (i), 7674 (i), 7686 (i), 7719 (i), 



7720(1), 7767 (i). 

 Phakrope stations*: 99 (i), 141 (i). 



Family NEREIDS. 



Nereis pelagica Linnaeus. (Chart 59.] 

 Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 591, 319, etc.; Sum- 



ner, 1910, fig. 6. 



Vineyard Sound. Verrill. Of general occur- 

 rence throughout bottom of Vineyard Sound; 

 in Buzzards Bay, almost wholly restricted to 

 the shores of the Elizabeth Islands, near the 

 passages connecting the Bay with the Sound. 



a It is more than possible that Verrill here refers to the next species, though it is also possible that both are present. 

 b Perhaps this is the species listed by Verrill as A . aculeata, or perhaps both are present. 



