710 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



VesiculariA areata Verrill, new sp. (p. 405.) 



Cells stout, oval, broad at base, jvitli a short and narrow pedicel, at- 

 tached either singly or in pairs along slender, filiform, creeping stems, 

 which often anastomose, the branches being mostly opposite. Distal 

 end of cells prolonged into four conical processes, each of which, when 

 perfect, supports a long slender spinule, nearly half as long as the cell. 

 Tentacles not seen. Cells yellowish horn-color, with an oval, dark 

 brown internal organ, visible in most of the cells. 



Vineyard Sound, on floating sea- weeds attached to Sertularice, Hale- 

 cium gra '.■€■, etc.; also in G to 10 fathoms, rocky, on Sertularia argentea. 



VesiculariA fusca Smitt. (p. 420.) 



Op. cit., p. 502, Plate 13, figs. 2r7-39, 1866. Avenella fusca (f) Dalyell, Rare and 

 Rem. Atiim. of Scotlaud, vol. ii, p. 65 ; vol. i, Plate 12, fig. 11, (t. Smitt). 



Long Island Sound northward ; northern coasts of Europe to Great 

 Britain. Off South End, near New Haven, 3 to 5 fathoms, on Alcyon- 

 idiuni ramosuni. 



Farrella familiaris. (p. 487.) 



Vesicularia (Farrella) familiaris Smitt, op. cit., p. 502, Plate 13, fig. 36, 1866. 

 Plumatella familiaris Gros, Bulletin Soc. Imp. Mascou, vol. xxii, p. 567, Plate 6, 

 G. figs. 1-10 (t. Smitt). Farrella jiedicellata Alder, Catal., p. 68, Plate 6, figs. 

 1-3; Quart. Jour. Miscrosc. Soc, vol. v, p. 24, Plate 14, figs. 1-3. 



Long Island Souud to Vineyard Sound and northward ; coasts of 



Scandinavia and Great Britain. Thimble Islands, near New Haven, in 



tide-iiools, on algte ; Casco Bay. Saint George's Bank (S. I. Smith). 



CHILOSTOMATA. 



Cellularina. 



^TEA ANGUINA Lamouroux. (p. 405.) 



Soc. Phil., 1812, p. 184 (t. Smitt) ; Polyp, flex., p. l^^^, Plate 3, fig. 6 ; Expos. 

 Methodique, p. 9, Plate 65, fig. 15 ; Smitt, op. cit., p. 280, Plate 16, figs. 2-4, 

 1867. Serttilaria angnina Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1317. Anguinaria spat- 

 ulata Johnston, Brit. Zo6ph., ed. ii, p. 290, Plate 50, figs. 7, 8. 



Long Island Sound, northward ; coasts of Scandinavia and Great 

 Britain. In Vineyard Sound it was common at low-water mark and in 

 6 to 14 fathoms, on Phyllophora and hydroids. Off New Haven, 4 to 6 

 fathoms, on Haleciiim gracile. 



EucRATEA CHELATA Lamouroux. (p. 405.) 



Polyp. Corall. flex., p. 149, Plate 3, fig. 5, 1816 ; Expos. Meth., p. 8, Plate, 65, fig. 

 10 ; Smitt, op. cit., 1865, Plate 5, fig. 3 ; 1867, p. 281, Plate 16, figs. 7-9 ; Johns- 

 ton, Brit. Zooph., ed. ii, ^. 288, fig. 64. Sertidaria chelata Liun^, Systema Nat., 

 ed. X, p. 816. Cellularia chelata Pallas, Elench. Zooph., p. 25, 1766. 



Martha's Vineyard northward; northern coasts of Europe to Great 



Britain. Off Gay Head, 10 fathoms, on hydroids and ascidiaus. Our 



specimens differ somewhat from the figures of the European form ; the 



