INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 701 



10 to 20 ftithoms; Bay of Fimtly, oflf Grand Meuan, Eastport narbor, 

 and South Bay, G to 20 fathoms, soft nrnd. Gulf of Saint Lawrence 

 (Whiteaves). 



Glandula arenicola Verrill. (p. 502.) 



Araer. Jour. Science, ser. iii, vol. iii, pp. 211, 288, 1872. 



Body subglobnlar, rather higher than broad, the whole surface cov- 

 ered with grains of sand, forming a continuous layer. When the sand 

 is removed the surface of the test is reticulately wrinkled and pitted, 

 not furnished with fibers, except at base, where there are a few long, 

 slender, thread-like white ones. Tubes terminal, near together, in the 

 alcoholic specimens short, forming low verructie, swollen at base, the 

 ends a little prominent and naked. Apertures square, with four small 

 lobe.s. The test is tough and opaque. Height, about 12°"" j breadth, 

 10™'" ; often larger. 



Murray Bay, Gulf of Saint Lawrence (Dr. J. W. Dawson). Saint 

 George's Bank, 28 fathoms, sand, abundant, (S. I. Smith). Off Cutty- 

 hunk Island and Buzzard's Bay (T. H. Prudden). 



Glandula. Species undetermined, (p. 502.) 

 Vineyard Sound and off Martha's Vineyard, 10 to 20 fathoms, sand. 



Cynthia partita Stimpson. Plate XXXIII, fig. 246. (p. 311.) 



Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. History, vol. iv, p. 231, 1852; Binney, op. cit., p. IS ; Verrill, 

 Amer. Jour. Science, vol. iii, p. 213, 1872. (?) Cynthia rugosa Agassiz, Proc. 

 Amer. Assoc, vol. ii, p. 159, 1850 (description inadequate) ; Binney, op. cit., p. 

 20 (copied from the preceding). Cynthia steHffera Verrill (var.), Amer. Jour. 

 Science, vol. i, p. 93, figs. 5, 6, a, b, 1871, 



Xorth Carolina to Massachusetts Bay. Common in Long Island 

 Sound, Vineyard Sound, and Buzzard's Bay, low-water to 15 fathoms. 

 Boston Harbor, 1 fathoms (Stimpson). Oif New London, Connecticut 

 (T. M. Prudden). 



Cynthia carnea Verrill. Plate XXXHI, figs. 247, 248. (p. 495.) 



American Jour. Science, ser. iii, vol. i, p. 94, figs. 7, 8, 9, 187L Ascidia carnea 

 Agassiz, Proc. American Assoc, for Adv. Sci., ii, p. 159, 1S50 (description insnfli- 

 cient) ; Binney, in Gould's Invertebrata of Mass., ed. ii, p. 25, Plate 24, figs. 334, 

 335, 1870 (young). {?) Cynthia gutta Stimpson, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 iv, p. 231, 1852 (young) ; Binney, op. cit., p. 19, 1870. Cynthia placenta (pars) 

 Packard, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i, p. 277, 1867 ; Binney, op. cit., p. 19, 

 Plate 23, figs. 322, 1870 ; Verrill, Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. xlix, p. 424, 1870. 



Martha's Vineyard to Labrador. Off Gay Head, 10 fathoms, stony ; 

 common in Eastport Harbor and Bay of Fnndy, low-water to 109 

 fathoms; Casco Bay, less common, 10 to 40 fathoms. Massachusetts 

 Bay (Stimpson). Labrador (Packard). 



This species is closely allied to C. rustica (Linue, sp.) from Iceland, 

 and may eventually prove to be identical. 



