[37] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 443 
Porpite. 
PHYSALIA PELAGICA Lamarck. (p. 450.) 
Syst. des Anim. sans Vert., p. 356, 1801; Lesson, Acaléphes, p. 545, 1843. Physalis 
pelagica Osbeck, Itin., p. 2384, Plate 12, fig. 1, 1757 (t) Lesson). Holothuria 
physalis Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. L090, 1767. Medusa caravella Miiller, Besch. 
der Berl. Naturf., vol. ii, p. 190, Plate 9, fig. 2 (t. Lesson); Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 
p. 3139, 1789. Physalia caravella Eschscholtz; Lesson, Hist. Nat. des Zooph. 
Acaléphes, Plate Ll (explanation). Physalia arethusa Tilesins, in Krusensterns 
Reise, vol. iii, p. 91, Plate 23, figs. 1-6, 1813 (t. Lesson); Agassiz, Contributions , 
vol. iv, pp. 335, 367, Plate 35, 1862; A. Agassiz, Catalogue, p. 214, figs. 351-354 ; 
this Report, p. 450. Physalia aurigera McCready, op. cit., p. 176, 1859, 
Warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, coming north- 
ward in the Gulf Stream to the southern coast of New England and 
Long Island; and off Saint George’s Bank and Nova Scotia. Not un- 
common, in good condition, in Vineyard Sound and Buzzard’s Bay. 
Watch Hill, Rhode Island (D. C. Eaton). East of Saint George’s Bank 
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(S.I. Smith). Fort Macon, North Carolina (coll. Dr. Yarrow). 
VELELLA MUTICA Lamarck. (p. 455.) 
| Syst. des Anim. sans Vert., p. 355, 1501; Bosc, Hist. Nat. des Vers., vol. ii, p. 158; 
Lesson, Voy. de la Coquille, Zool., vol. ii, pp. 2,52, Plate 6, figs. 1,2; Aca- 
léphes, p. 571, Plate 12, figs. 1,2; A. Agassiz, Catalogue, p. 216, figs. 355-357. 
Medusa velella Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1098. 
Tropical parts of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, coming northward 
in the Gulf Stream as far as Nantucket and off Saint George’s Bank. 
Aspinwall (coll. F. H. Bradley); coasts of Florida (Agassiz); Long Is- 
land Sound (A. Agassiz). 
POLYPI or ANTHOZOA. 
ALCYONARIA. 
ALCYONIUM CARNEUM Agassiz. Plate XX XVIII, fig. 283. (p. 497.) 
Proc. American Association for Ady. of Science, 1850, p. 209; Verrill, Revision 
of Polyps of Eastern Coast U. S., in Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i, p. 
4, 1864; Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 345, 1866. Haleyonium 
carneum A. and E. C. Agassiz, Sea-Side Studies, p. 19, figs. 21-23, 1865. 
Rhode Island to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Off Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 
4 to 5 fathoms; off Cuttyhunk Island, 10 to 15 fathoms; off Gay Head, 8 
to 10 fathoms ; common in Massachusetts Bay, Casco Bay, Bay of Fundy, 
and coast of Nova Scotia, low-water to 80 fathoms. Gulf of Saint Law- 
rence (Whiteaves). Saint George’s Bank (S. 1. Smith). 
Leptogorgia tenuis Verrill. 
Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i, p. 8, 1864. Gorgonia tenuis Verrill, Proc. 
Boston Soc. N. H., vol. x, p. 339, 1866. Leptogorgia teres (error typ.) Verrill, 
Amer. Jour. Science, vol. xlviii, p. 420, 1869. 
‘‘ Bay of New York.” Specimens in the museum of Yale College are 
supposed to have come from Long Island Sound, but the exact locality 
is not known. 
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