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Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History in 1912—1914, have been 
identified by the writer as follows, the locality records being added: 
Spongilla fragilis was generally distributed from Starved Rock, near 
La Salle, to Meredosia at least ; Ephydatia fluviatilis was found in sloughs 
near Havana; Carterius latitenta was abundant from Starved Rock to 
Copperas Creek; Asteromeyenia radiospiculata was found at Hardin and 
Grafton; Trochospongilla leidyi was abundant from La Salle to Hardin; 
and one specimen of 7. horrida was found at Starved Rock. A second 
specimen of the last-named species was collected by A. A. Hinkley in the 
southern part of the state in the Big Muddy River near Waltonville in 
1914. As far as is known to the writer the above are the first records 
for T. horrida in North America. 
Ephydatia crateriformis and Spongilla fragilis have been collected in 
the Sangamon River, at places a few miles west of Urbana, but the stream 
is too muddy to permit the development of an extensive sponge fauna. 
Collections from ponds and streams of the drainage basin of Salt Fork, 
a branch of the Vermilion River, at various places from Urbana to 
Muncie (which is about twenty miles farther east), have contained 
Spongilla fragilis, Ephydatia fluviatilis, E. crateriformis, and Carterius 
latitenta. The first- and last-named species are the most abundant. The 
total of twelve species already recorded should be increased somewhat 
when careful collecting has been done in other parts of the state. 
ADDITIONAL NortH AMERICAN RECORDS 
Collections received from various sources have made it possible to 
list species from a few states from which sponges had not been previously 
reported, and to add species to the lists previously reported from several 
other states. Reference to some of these new records has been made in 
the key to sponges contained in Ward and Whipple’s Fresh-Water Bi- 
ology. The new records are indicated in the distribution table (page 17) 
by the letter S. The United States National Museum has several 
specimens which add previously unrecorded species to the lists of each of 
seven states, and these are indicated in the table by the letter U. A brief 
summary of the new records and the data of the collections on which 
they are based follows. The order of sequence in presenting the items 
is determined by their geographic distribution from east to west, and 
from north to south. 
Spongilla lacustris in a collection made by A. O. Gross in the vicin- 
ity of Brunswick, Maine. 
Spongilla igloviformis and Tubella pennsylvanica in a collection made 
by Miss Elizabeth Bodfish from a pond near Palmer, Massachusetts. 
Ephydatia crateriformis in a collection of the United States National 
Museum, from the Potomac River at Washington, D. C., and Spongilla 
lacustris from Pomonkey Creek, Maryland. 
