446 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [740] 
not aware that this species has been found south of Cape Cod, but it 
will probably be found hereafter, since the Cyanea is common. 
EPIZOANTHUS AMERICANUS Verrill. Plate XX XVIII, figs. 286, 287. 
(p. 510.) 
American Journal of Science, vol. ii, p. 361, 1871; Dana, Corals and Coral Isl- 
ands, ed. i, p. 62, figs 1, 2, 1872. Zoanthus parasiticus Verrill, Revision of 
Polyps, in Mem. Boston Soc. N. H., vol. i, p. 34, 1864, (not of Duch. and Mich., 
1860.) Zoanthus Americanus Verrill, op. cit., p. 45; Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 
vol. x, p. 335, 1866. Gemmaria Americana Verrill, American Naturalist, vol. 1i, 
p. 9, fig. 42. 
Off New Jersey to Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in deep water. Off Block 
island, 29 fathoms, on shells occupied by Hupagurus ; off Grand Manan, 
in 40 to 50 fathoms, on shells covering Hupagurus, and in 109 fathoms, 
on rocks; off Saint George’s Bank, 430 fathoms, on rocks, (S. I. Smith 
and O. Harger); Saint George’s Bank, 60 fathoms, on shells occupied 
by Eupagurus (Smith and Harger); Gulf of Saint Lawrence, on rocks, 
(Whiteaves); Massachusetts Bay (J. E. Gray). Off New Jersey, N. lat. 
40°, W. long. 73°, 32 fathoms, on shells inhabited by Hupagurus pubescens, 
(coll. Captain Gedney). 
MADREPORARIA. 
ASTRANGIA DANZ Agassiz. (p. 408.) 
Proc. American Assoc., vol. ii, p. 68, 1849 (not of Edw. and Haime, 1850); Ver- 
rill, Revision Polyps, p. 40, 1864; A. and Mrs. E. C. Agassiz, Sea-Side Studies, p. 
16, figs. 16-20, 1865; Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 335, 1866 ; 
Dana, Corals and Coral Islands, p. 68, figures, 1872. <Astrangia astraiformis 
Edw. and Haime, Ann. des. Sci. Nat., vol. xii, p. 181, 1850; Coralliaires, vol. ii, 
p. 614, 1857; Leidy, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad., vol. ili, p. 139, Plate 
x, figs. 9-16, 1855; Verrill, Revision of Polyps, p. 39, 1864. 
North Florida and west Florida to Cape Cod. Common in Long 
Island Sound, near New Haven, at Savin Rock, off Thimble Islands, 
etc., 1 to 6 fathoms, rocks; Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 4 to 5 fathoms ; 
Vineyard Sound and Buzzard’s Bay, 2 to 15 fathoms ; Fort Macon, North 
Carolina (coll. Dr. Yarrow). Charleston, South Carolina (Agassiz). 
West Florida (EK. Jewett). 
PROTOZOA. 
PORIFERA or SPONGLA. 
CALCAREA. 
GRANTIA CILIATA Fleming. (p. 330.) 
British Anim., p, 325; Johnston, Brit. Sponges and Lithophytes, p. 176, Plate 
20, figs. 4, 5, Plate 21, figs. 6, 7, 1842; Bowerbank, Monog. British Spongiade, 
vol. i, Plate 26, figs. 345, 3468; vol. ii, p. 19, 1866. Spongia ciliata Fabricius, 
Fauna Groenlandica, p. 448, 1780. Sycandra ciliata Heckel, Die Kalkschwimme, 
