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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Family AMMOCHARID.B. 



Ammochares artifex Verrill. 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 610, 508 (Ammochares, 

 species undetermined); Verrill, 1885, p. 439 

 (Ammochares artifex, sp. nov.). 



Fifteen miles east of Block Island, in 29 fathoms, 

 sandy mud; 23 fathoms off Marthas Vine- 

 yard. Verrill. Tubes of what are regarded 

 as worms of this species have been taken in 

 Buzzards Bay, near center (Fish Hawk stations 

 7612* and 7642*), and in Vineyard Sound, near 

 Nonamesset Island (Phalarope stations 4* and 

 8*). Survey. This worm constructs flexible 

 tubes covered with imbricated sand grains. 



Family CIRRATULID^. 



Cirratulus grandis Verrill. 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 606, 319, etc. 

 (sp. nov.); Mead, 1898; Bumpus, iSgSb. 



Vineyard Sound. Verrill. Eastern half of 

 Vineyard Sound, at 5 stations, 2 to n fathoms, 

 sand and gravel; likewise dug up along shore 

 at Katama Bay* (2 points), Naushon side of 

 Robinsons Hole*, and the bathing beach at 

 Fort Phoenix*. Survey. 



Fish Hawk stations*: 7538 bis (i), 7750 (i), 

 7767 (several), 7769 (i). 



Phalarope station 73 (i)*. 



Eggs appeared to be nearly ripe, April 17; 

 species known to breed during July; females 

 will deposit eggs in the evening, in confine- 

 ment. Mead. 



Cirratulus tennis Verrill. 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 607, 416 (sp. nov.). 

 Vineyard Sound, 6 to 12 fathoms, among com- 

 pound ascidians; 23 fathoms, off Marthas 

 Vineyard. Verrill. Two specimens recorded 

 by the Survey from Vineyard Sound, near 

 Nobska Point, 7 fathoms, stones and sand 

 (Fish Hawk station 7521 bis)*. 



Cirratulus cirratus Miiller. 



Vineyard Sound, near Cedar Tree Neck, 7 

 fathoms, sand and shells (Fish Hawk station 

 7553)*: i specimen. 

 Cirratulus parvus Moore. 



Moore, 1906, p. 505 (sp. nov.). 



"Deeper waters of Vineyard and Nantucket 

 Sounds, in from 10 to 19 fathoms, where it 

 lives in colonies among the crevices of Amarce- 

 cium pellucidum and in passages of shells. 

 Quite common in the latter at Crab Ledge, 

 off Chatham." An immature specimen re- 

 corded from near West Falmouth, at Phalarope 

 station 136*. 



Cirrhinereis fragilis Quatref ages . 

 Verrill and Smith, 1873, P- 6 7. 33 2 -' Verrill, 



i882d, p. 370; 1884, p. 665. 

 Specimens believed to belong to this species 



were dredged by Verrill in Vineyard Sound, 



on rocky bottom; others taken at surface. 



Dr. Moore thinks it possible that Cirratulus 



parvus was the form referred to. 



Cirrhinereis phosphorea Verrill. 



Verrill, i882b, p. 370; 1884, P- 665. 

 A form thus referred to by Verrill, but not 

 described, was taken at the surface in Vine- 

 yard Sound or Woods Hole Harbor. 



Dodecaceria coralii (Leidy). 



Leidy, 1855, p. 12 (Naraganseta coralii); Verrill 

 and Smith, 1873, p. 607 (Naraganseta coralii). 



Vineyard Sound, near shores of Nonamesset and 

 Naushon; Buzzards Bay, near Scraggy Neck; 

 dredged in 4 to 10 fathoms, on bottoms of sand 

 and gravel, sometimes in dead coral (Astrangia 

 dance); also taken on piles in Nantucket Har- 

 bor*. Hitherto not listed for Massachusetts. 



Phalarope stations*: 2, 3 (2), 6 (i), n (i), 145 (i). 



Acrocirrus leidyi Verrill. 



Verrill, i882d, p. 370; 1884, p. 665. 

 Woods Hole, surface, evening, August 2 to 

 September 9, 1881 and 1882. 



"This statement applies to the "Ammochares, species undetermined" of the Vineyard Sound report, 

 described, was only listed from 67 fathoms. 



Family 



Amphitrite cirrata (Miiller). 



Crab Ledge, on stony bottom, in tubes, among 

 Amaroucium, etc., rare. Moore. Three speci- 

 mens taken by the Survey at Crab Ledge 

 (station 7606)*, in 16 fathoms, stones and 

 gravel. 



Amphitrite attenuata Moore. 

 Moore, 1906, p. 506 (sp. nov.). 

 "This species has been taken only on the piles 

 of the New York Yacht Club wharf in Vine- 

 yard Haven, where it occurs sparingly below 

 low water among Cynthia and Amaraecium; 

 lives in small mud tubes and breeds in early 

 July." 



Amphitrite brunnea (Stimpson). 

 Crab Ledge and off Nantucket in 16 to 23 

 fathoms. Moore. 



Amphitrite ornata (Leidy). 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 613, 320, etc.; Mead, 



1897, p. 229. 



Vineyard Sound, common in sand and gravel at 

 low- water mark. Verrill. Lackeys Bay, Had- 

 ley Harbor, Ram Island. -Mead. Not taken 

 during Survey dredging, but recorded from 



The A . artifex, when 



