[39] COLLECTIONS MADE BY FISHING VESSELS. 825 



430. Henry Colby, East Gloucester. A living specimen of the web- 

 fingered sea-robin (Prionotus carolinus); caught in a mackerel gill-net 

 in Gloucester Harbor. 



431. John Shean, Gloucester. A specimen of leaf-sponge taken on 

 a trawl, 3J miles southeast of Eastern Point, Cape Ann, in about 24 

 fathoms. 



432. Capt. Benjamin Johnson, sch. Alaska. Two star-fishes, a scaly 

 worm, a halibut parasite (^Ega psora), a rock-eel (Murcenoides)* and a 

 blenny (Eumesogrammus sp.) ; from Brown's Bank, 37 fathoms. 



433. Capt. Jerome McDonald, sch. G. P. Whitman. Hermit- 

 crabs (Eupa gurus Krmjeri), a large scaly worm (Nephthysparadoxa ?),sand- 

 launce (Ammodytes dubius), and an undetermined species offish; from 

 lat. 43o 30' K, long. 60° 25' W., 50 fathoms. 



434. Capt. John McKinnon and crew, sch. Butherford B. Hayes. 

 Common basket star-fish (Astrophyton Agassizii), common star-fishes 

 (Crossaster papposus, Sol aster end eca, Ctenodiscus crispatus, and Asteriaa), 

 variegated serpent-star (Ophiopholis aculetita), warty sea-rose (Urticina 

 nodosa), holothurian, Iceland scallops (Pecten Islandicus), eggs of Buc- 

 cinum, large shells (Keptunea decemcostata, Modiola modiolus), green sea- 

 eggs (Slrongylocentrotus Brbbachiensis), parasites from the common flat- 

 fish and other species, large green barnacle (Balanus Hamcri), a small 

 sea-pen (Pennatula), a rock-crab (Cancer irroratus), tube-worm ( Vermilia 

 serrula) embryonic "monk-fish" (Lophius piseatorius), and a flatfish 

 (Plcuroncetes amerieanus); from the western part of Western Bank. 



435. Capt. Sewell W. Smith and crew, scb. S. B. Lane. Jointed 

 bush-coral (Acanella Normaui), with variegated serpent-star (Ophiopholis 

 aculeata), clear scallops [Pecten ritreus), shells (Anomia aculeata) and rare 

 scaly stemmed barnacles (Scalpellum Strain it) attached, JEga psora, 

 parasitic on halibut, large sea-anemones, small velvet-star [Ctenodiscus 

 crispatus), Greenland basket-fish (Astrophyton eucnemis), Lamarck's 

 basket-fish (Astrophyton LamarcMi), scaly worm, sea-feathers (Balticina 

 Finmarchica, Pennatula boreal is, and Pennatula aculeata), a lamprey eel 

 (Petromyzon), long-nose eel (Synaphobranchus pinnatus), and a black 

 dogfish (Centroseymnus coelolepis) ; from hit. 43° 25' HT;, long. 60° W., 180 

 fathoms. 



430. Capt. Peter Hamlin and crew, sch. Andrew Leighton. A raf- 

 fled sea-rose (Actinernus 7wbilis), two specimens of Acanthogorgia 

 armata, a long-nosed-eel (Synaphobranchus pinnatus), and two fresh chiui- 

 seras (Chimceraplumbea) ; from lat. 44° N., long. 58° 30' W., 100 fathoms. 



437. Mr. William M. Gaffney, Gloucester (through Capt. Jos. W. 

 Collins). A large crayfish, from the New England coast; exact locality 

 unknown. 



438. Capt. Benjamin Johnson, sch. Alaska. A fine specimen of 

 Chalina; from Brown's Bank, 57 fathoms. 



439. Capt. Samuel Peebles, sch. Addison Centre. Bryozoans, branch- 

 ing sponge, jointed bush-coral (Acanella Normani), large flowered sponge- 



