[719] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS UF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 425 
LEPTASTERIAS COMPTA Verrill. 
Proc. Boston Soce., vol. x, p. 350, 1866. Asterias compta Stimpson, Proc. Boston 
Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. viii, p. 270, 1862; Verrill, op. cit., p. 340. 
Ott New Jersey, 32 fathoms, (Captain Gedney). Off Martha’s Vine- 
yard, 20 to 25 fathoms, rare ; off Casco Bay, 30 to 50 fathoms. 
CRIBRELLA SANGUINOLENTA Liitken. (p. 407.) 
Greenl. Echinod., p. 31, 1859; Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat Hist., vol. x, p. 345, 
1866. <Asterias sanguinolenta Miiller, Zoél. Dan. Prod., 2836, 1776. Asterias 
oculata Pennant, Brit. Zodl., vol. iv, p. 61, Plate 30, fig. 56, 1777. Asterias 
spongiosa Fabricius, Fauna Greenl., p. 368, 1780. Linkia oculata Forbes, Wern. 
Mem., vol. viii, p. 120, 1839. Cribella oculata Forbes, British Starfishes, p. 100, 
(figure), 1841. chinastler oculatus Miiller and Troschel, Syst. Asterid., p. 24, 1842. 
Linkia oculata Stimpson, Invert. of Grand Manan, p. 14, 1853. Linkia pertusa 
Stimpson, op. cit., p. 14. Echinaster sanguinolentus Sars, Fauna Litt. Norveg., i 
p47, Plate 8, figs. 3-6; Oversigt af Norges Echinodermer, p. 84, 1861. 
Connecticut to the Arctic Ocean; northern coasts of Europe to Great 
Britain and France. Very common in the Bay of Fundy, Casco Bay, 
and on the entire coast of Maine, from low-water to 100 fathoms ; Massa- 
chusetts Bay; Vineyard Sound,’ 5 to 20 fathoms, not uncommon; off 
Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 3 to 5 fathoms; off New London, Connecti- 
cut (coll. T. H. Praudden). 
OPHIUROIDEA. 
OPHIURA OLIVACEA Lyman. (p. 363.) 
Ill. Catal. Mus. Comp. Zodlogy, No. 1, Ophiuridw and Astrophytidx, p. 23, 1865; 
Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. N. H., vol. x, p. 339. Ophioderma olivaceum Ayres, 
Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. iv, p. 134, 1852. 
Cape Cod to North Carolina. Wood’s Hole, Buzzard’s Bay, and Vine- 
yard Sound, not common; shores of Long Island, frequent; Fort 
Macon, North Carolina, common, (Dr. Yarrow). 
OPHIOPHOLIS ACULEATA Gray. Plate XXXV, fig. 270. (p. 496.) 
List of British Animals in Coll. of Brit. Mus., Part I, Rad. Anim., p. 25, 1848; 
Liitken Additamenta ad Hist. Ophiuridarum, p. 60, Plate 2, figs. 15,a. b, 16, a, b, 
1858; Verrill, op. cit., p. 344, 1865. Asterias aculeata Linné (pars), Syst. Nat., 
p. 1101; Retzius Vetersk.-Akad., vol. iv, p. 240, 1783; Miiller, Prod., 2341, 1776; 
Zool. Dan., vol. iii, p. 29, Plate 99, 1789. Ophiura bellis Fleming, Brit. Anim,, p. 
488, 1828. Ophiocoma bellis Forbes, Wern. Mem., vol. viii, p. 226; Brit. Star- 
fishes, p. 53, figure. Ophiopholis bellis Lyman, op. cit., p. 96, Plate 1, figs. 4-6. 
Ophiolepis scolopendrica Miiller and Troschel, Syst. Aster., p. 96, 1842. Ophioph- 
olis scolopendrica Stimpson, Invert. of Grand Manan, p. 13, 1853. 
* Rhode Island and New Jersey to the Arctic Ocean; Iceland; Spitz- 
bergen; northern coasts of Europe, to the English Channel, Ireland, 
ete. Very abundant in the Bay of Fundy, Casco Bay, and along the 
whole coast of Maine, from low-water to 100 fathoms ; Massachusetts 
Bay; off Gay Head, 6 to 8 fathoms, rare; off Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 
in 4 to 5 fathoms, rocky. Off New Jersey, 30 to 38 fathoms, N, lat. 39° 
54’; W. long. 73° 15’, (Josephine Exp., t. Ljungmann). A similar species, 
perhaps identical, occurs on the northwestern coasts of America. 
