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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Family 



Sabellaria vulgaris Verrill. [Chart 82.] 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 611, 321, etc. (sp. 



nov.). 



Vineyard Sound. Verrill. Common and gen- 

 erally distributed throughout Vineyard Sound ; 

 in Buzzards Bay less common and chiefly con- 

 fined to inshore stations; dredged in 2 to 19 

 fathoms, on various bottoms. Survey. 

 Fish Hawk stations: 7521 bis (large cluster of 

 tubes on stones), 7526 (i), 7538 bis (i), 7543 bis 

 (few tubes), 7544 bis (several tubes), 7546 bis 

 (tubes), 7549 bis (i tube), 7551 (i tube), 7553 

 (i tube), 7558 (i tube on Venus shell), 7561 

 (few), 7581 (i), 7616 (few tubes), 7625 (i), 7629 

 (i cluster of tubes), 7633 (i cluster of tubes), 

 7664 (2), 7668 (i tube), 7682 (i), 7686 (i tube), 

 7687 (several tubes), 7688 (several tubes), 7697 

 (2), 7702 (i), 7706 (i tube), 7707 (i tube), 7724 



Sabellaria vulgaris Continued. 



(i), 7732 (common), 7734 (i tube), 7737 (tubes), 

 7742 (2), 7744 (several), 7747 (common), 7749 

 (i), 7752 (several tubes), 7753 (several clusters 

 of tubes), 7754 (i colony of tubes), 7755 (sev- 

 eral colonies), 7757 (several), 7760 (several), 

 77 6 3 (*). 77 6 7 (few), 7768 (i colony), 7769 

 (few), 7773, 7774 (few), 7775 (few), 7776 (few), 

 7777 (little), 7779 (few), 7780 (few), 7781 (few), 

 7782 (few), 7783 (common). 



Phalarope and Blue Wing stations: 4 (few on 

 stones), 6 (i), 7 (several on shells), 8 (i tube), 

 14, 30 (i), 36 (several tubes), 49 (several tubes), 

 52 (i tube), 62 (i), 63 (i tube), 85 (fragments of 

 tube), 107 (i), 148 (i tube), 149 (few tubes), 150 

 (tubes), 159 (tubes on shell), 166 (i tube on 

 shell). 



This worm constructs familiar hard tubes from 

 agglutinated sand grains, these tubes being 

 adherent to stones, shells, and other objects. 



Polychata undetermined. 



Fish Hawk stations: 7523, 7557, 7572, 7593, 7594, 7606, 7607, 7614, 7779. 

 Phalarope station 157. 



Subclass OLIGOCH^TA. 



Family 



Paranais littoralis (Oersted). 



Moore, 19053, p. 376. (Listed by Verrill and 

 Smith , 1873 , as Enchytrceus triventralopcctinatus, 

 and recorded for New Haven, on authority of 

 Minor). 



Vineyard Sound and vicinity. "More than any 

 other species it withstands a wide range of 

 density in the water, being almost equally at 

 home in the rain-soaked eelgrass above high 

 tide, on the shores of brackish ponds, and 

 under stones near low-water mark on the 

 exposed shores of Vineyard Sound." Moore. 



Family ENCHYTR^ID^. 



Enchytracus albidus Henle. 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 623, 324 (HalodriUus 

 littoralis, sp. nov.); F. Smith, 1895, Moore, 

 19053, p. 394. 



Woods Hole ; very common under dead seaweeds 

 and stones, near high-water mark. Verrill. 

 "The best known and most generally dis- 

 tributed of our littoral Oligochasta. . . . 

 Found in moist spots on farm lands on Marthas 

 Vineyard, where it could readily be introduced 

 in ... eelgrass spread for fertilizer. About 

 Woods Hole it also lives in damp, sandy woods 

 and on the shores of fresh-water ponds, espe- 

 cially of one that formerly was connected 

 with the Sound." Moore. 



Lumbricillus agilis Moore. 



Moore, 19053., p. 395 (sp. nov.). 



Vineyard Sound, etc., abundant among eelgrass 



thrown on shore near high-water mark, in 



sheltered coves. 



Family 



Clitellio arenarius (Miiller). 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 623, 324, etc. 

 (Clitellio irrorata, in part); Moore, 19053, 



P-377- 



" Common at many suitable points on the shores 

 of Vineyard Sound, Buzzards Bay," etc., 

 but "apparently less plentiful south of Cape 

 Cod." Moore. 



Tubifex irroratus (Verrill). 

 Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 622 (Clitellio irrorata, 



in part); Moore, 19053, p. 384. 

 Vicinity of Woods Hole, not uncommon among 



roots of beach grass in brackish water. 



Moore. 



Tubifex, hamatus Moore. 

 Moore, 19053, p. 389 (sp. nov.). 

 So far found only on shores of the Acushnet 

 River, under stones in brackish water. 



Tubifex benedeni Udekem. 



Moore, 19053, p. 388. 



Found on muddy shores between tides, "only 

 sparingly in the neighborhood of Woods Hole, 

 and in water both fully salt and brackish." 



