I50 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



point down. Maxillae with lower step of variable width. 

 Posterior cirri with segments bearing six pairs of spines, inter- 

 mediate fine spines rather long. First cirrus with anterior 

 ramus longer, by only two segments, than posterior ramus. Sec- 

 ond cirrus with anterior ramus, with very broad transverse rows 

 of bristles. Spine-bearing surfaces considerably protuberant and 

 caudal prominences smooth, rounded. 



Color of valves noted above. Edges of orifice bright scarlet- 

 orange. Basal edges of scuta, sometimes of all valves, with torn 

 border of orange membrane. Interspaces between valves dull 

 orange-brown. Peduncle dark purplish-brown, lower part some- 

 times pale. Chitine membrane itself tinted orange. Young with 

 peduncle pale. Sack internally dark purplish lead-color, some- 

 times tinged with orange, darkest under growing edges of valves. 

 Body of animal pale purplish lead-color. Four posterior cirri 

 blackish-purple. Second and often third cirrus sometimes tinged 

 orange. Very young with cirri only barred with purple. Ova 

 and contents of ovarian tubes, azure blue, yellow in alcohol. 

 Capitulum 2 inches, and total length with peduncle, 16 inches. 



(Darwin.) 



Remarks. — ^World-wide, and said to be extremely common, 

 attached to vessels, seaweed, bottles, floating timber, etc., and to 

 each other. Leidy records it from Atlantic City and Beesley's 

 Point. My examples from Cape May Point. 



Lepas anserifera Linnaeus. 

 Plates 39 and 44, Figures i and 3. 



Lcpas anserifera Linnjeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. 12, I, 1767, p. 1109. "In Pelago 



Americano." 



Darwin, Monogr. Cirriped.. 1851, p. 81, PI. i. fig. 4. World-wide. 



■ S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), P- 580. Warmer 



Atlantic. 

 Pilsbry, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 60, 1907. p. 80. Asbury Park, New 



Jersey. Smith's Island and Cherrystone, Virginia ; Albatross Station 



2104, N. Lat. 38° 48'. W. Long. 72° 40' 30" ; Albatross Station 2221. N. 



Lat. 39° 5' 30", W. Long. 70° 44' 30" ; Albatross Station 2584, N. Lat. 



39° 5' 30"> W. Long. 72° 23' 20": Albatross Station 2711, N. Lat. 38° 



59', W. Long. 70° 7' ; Albatross Station 2712, N. Lat. 38° 20', W. Long. 



70° 5' 30"; Albatross Station 2713, N. Lat. 38°, W. Long. 70°; Albatross 



