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to Dr. Osburn some specimens collected near Cape 

 May, New Jersey, are the first definite record for 

 8. wvicularis from the Fast Coast of America. 



Hippoporidra edax Busk 



PLATE X. Fig. 3 



Forms wart-like encrustations on gastropod 

 shells. A southern species not hitherto reported 

 north of Florida. It has been dredged alive at 

 Five Fathom Bank, fourteen miles off Wildwood, 

 in fifty-four feet of water. Also occurs as a fossil 

 in the Pleistocene at Two Mile Beach, New Jersey. 



Bowerbankia gracilis Leidy 



PLATE XI. Fig. 18 



A delicate white creeping form with cylindrical 

 zooids rising singly or in clusters from the creeping 

 stolon or base. On pebbles, algae, etc., in shallow 

 water from Chesapeake Bay northward. New 

 Jersey specimens are usually the variety known 

 as form densa. 



Amathia vidovici Heller 

 {A nidi hia dichotoma Verrffl) 



PLATE IX. Fig. 3 



(J rows in thick clusters 1 to 2 inches high. 

 The branches stand in different planes so as to give 

 a miniature tree-like effect, When a branch divides 

 there is a joint formed at the base of each of the 



