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Lepas pcctinata Continued. 



Bigelow records this species locally (Vineyard 

 Sound or Buzzards Bay). Vineyard Sound, on 

 floating Ascophyllum, and in independent 

 clusters, July i, igoif* (collected by V. N. 

 Edwards). 



Lepas anatifcra Linnaeus. 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, P- 5^o> 382. etc.; Bige- 

 low, 1902, p. 65; M. J. Rathbun, 1905, p. 84; 

 Pilsbry, 1907, p. 79. 



Taken in various parts of Vineyard Sound during 

 the months of July and August; found upon 

 the bottoms of ships, and attached to floating 

 planks and sargassum, sometimes in large 

 numbers. Specimens in Woods Hole museum, 

 dated July 5, 190^, August 29f, August 3of, 

 and September 5, 1906!- (All attached to sar- 

 gassum.) 



Bigelow notes that maturation and cleavage 

 stages, as well as advanced eggs, were on one 

 occasion found in great numbers in the middle 

 of August. 



Lepas hilli (Leach). 



M. J. Rathbun, 1905, p. 84; Pilsbry, 1907, p. 80 

 (no local records). 



Woods Hole, from German bark. Rathbun. 

 Woods Hole, December n, 1888*; Vineyard 

 Sound, July i, 1901; enormous cluster*; Gay 

 Head, July 23, igoif; Vineyard Sound, on 

 floating wood, July 5, 1904!; Menemsha Bight, 

 on gulfweed, August 28, I9o6f; New Bedford 

 Harbor, on bottom of whaling vessel, August, 

 1906!; Vineyard Sound, August 29, 1906!. 



Lepas hilli Continued. 



(Foregoing specimens for the most part col- 

 lected by V. N. Edwards.) Abundant during 

 the summer of 1909, several large clusters being 

 brought in. Found by Mr. Edwards and oth- 

 ers, growing upon buoys anchored in local wa- 

 ters, though this is not probably a common 

 occurrence. 



Lepas anserifera Linnaeus. 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 580, 382; M. J. Rath- 

 bun, 1905, p. 84; Pilsbry, 1907, p. 80. 



Nobska Beach. Rathbun. Off Marthas Vine- 

 yard. Pilsbry. 



Conchoderma auritum (Linnaeus). 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 580, 390; M. J. Rath- 

 bun, 1905, p. 85; Pilsbry, 1907, p. 99. 



Woods Hole, on ship's bottom. Rathbun, Pils- 

 bry. 



Conchoderma virgatum (Spengler). 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 580, 392; M. J. Rath- 

 bun, 1905, p. 85; Pilsbry, 1907, p. 99. 



Woods Hole, on ship's bottom. Rathbun, Pils- 

 bry. Woods Hole, on bottom of Italian bark, 

 August, 1887 (perhaps the same specimens as 

 referred to in the foregoing record). Off Gay 

 Head, on Mola. Pilsbry. New Bedford, sev- 

 eral specimens taken from a whaling vessel, 

 August, 1906! ; also taken in abundance in 

 the same harbor by Mr. Gray's collectors. 

 Several specimens of this species are attached 

 to the top of the head of a large gar (Tylosums 

 acus) in the Woods Hole collection. 



Order AMPHIPODA." 



Family 



Vibilia viatrix. Bovallius. 

 M. J. Rathbun, 1905, p. 50. 

 Off Marthas Vineyard, at the 

 fully determined by Holmes) 

 Rathbun. 



Family 



surface (doubt- 

 off Newport. 



Hyperia galba (Montagu). 



Holmes, 1905, p. 464; M. J. Rathbun, 1905, p. 50. 



Woods Hole; commonly found in Aurelia. 

 Holmes. Identified by Dr. Kunkel in nine 

 different lots of amphipods, collected by Mr. 

 Edwards at Woods Hole in April, May, June, 

 and October. Some of these were freely swim- 

 ming; others in the medusae Tima formosa and 

 Cyanea arctica (?). 



Hyperia medusarum (Muller). 



Verrill, 18753, p. 38; Holmes, 1905, p. 464 (not 

 listed for this region); M. J. Rathbun, 1^05, 

 p. 50. (Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 567 and 

 439, likewise mention an unidentified Hyperia, 

 found upon Cyanea). 



Vineyard Sound and northward on Cyanea arctica 

 and other jellyfishes. Verrill. 



Hyperoche abyssorum (Boeck). 



Holmes, 1905, p. 464 (not listed for local waters). 

 Specimens thus identified by Dr. Kunkel were 



taken at Woods Hole, in surface tow, April 27 



and May 24, 1906. 



Euthcmisto comprcssa (Goes). 



Holmes, 1905, p. 464; M. J. Rathbun, 1905, p. 51. 

 "Off Marthas Vineyard. "- Holmes. The sta- 

 tions listed by this writer are. however, beyond 



"Specimens from points designated by an asterisk (*) were identified by Dr. L. J. Cole; those from points designated 

 by a dagger (t) by Dr. S. J. Holmes; those from points designated by a double dagger ( J.) by Dr. B. \V. Kunkel. 



