74 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ARTHROSTRACA. AMPHIPODA. 



PODOCERIDAE. 



Mass. — Off Half-Avay Rock, Salem; Vinevard Sound. 

 Jeffreys Ledge ; Stellwageu Bank ; Georges Bank. 

 To a depth of 100 fathoms. 



233. Ericthonius minax (Smith). 



Cerapus ininax Smith, Rept. 17. S. commr. of fish it fisheries, 

 pt. 1, for 1871-1S72 (1873), p. 565 ['271]. "Loxg Island Souxd. 

 VixETARD Sound." 



Mass. — Woods Hole ; Vineyard Sound. 

 Long Island Sound. 



COROPHIIDAE. 



234. Cerapus tubularis Say. 



L'erapus tubularis Say, Journ. aead. nat. sci. Phil.. 1817, vol. 

 1, p. 50, pi. 4, figs. 7-11. " amongst fuci on the sea beach at 

 Egg-Harbour." Smith, Trans. Conn. acad. sci., 1882, vol. 4. \s. 

 277. pi. 2a. 



Constructs a little slender, free tube, which it inhabits and car- 

 ries about upon its back when it travels. 



In eel-grass and among masses of a large compound ascidian 

 {Amouroucium pellncidi(rn); to a depth of 10 fathoms. 



Mass. — Off Falmouth ; off Nobska Point ; Vineyard Sound. 



Conn. — Noank Harbor. 



235. Siphonoecetes smithianus Rathbun, nom. nov. 



Siphonoecetes cuspidatus Smith, Rept. L^. S. commr. of fish & 

 fisheries, pt. 1, for 1871-1872 (1873), p. 566 [272]. "In deep 

 WATER OFF Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay." Not >S. 

 cuspidatus Metzger, Jahresb. naturh. ges. Hannover, 1871. vol. 

 21, p. 30. 



Inhabits tubes con.structed of grains of sand ; on bottoms of 

 fine compact mud and sand. 



