INVERTEBRATE ANIilALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 717 



Britain; Beliring Straits to Gulf of Georgia; Northern Siberia to 

 Okhotsk Sea aud De Castrie's Bay. Very abuu(hiiit in the Bay of Fundy, 

 from low-water to 109 fathoms ; Caseo Bay ; Massachusetts Bay ; mouth 

 of Vineyard Sound and off Gay Head, 10 to 20 fathoms, common ; off 

 Holmes's Hole ; off" Watch Hill, Khode Island, 4 to 5 fathoms, not un- 

 common ; off' New London, Connecticut, plenty, (coll. Prudden) ; Faulk- 

 ner's Island, Thimble Islands, and near New Haven, 4 to 8 fathoms, un- 

 common and small. Off New Jersey, on a bank, in 32 fathoms, (Captain 

 Gedney). Off' Saint George's Bank, 430 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). 



Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Portland, Maine ; New Brunswick ; 

 Canada ; an d Labrador. 



Arbacia punctulata Gray. (p. 406.) 



Proc. Zool. Soc. of Loudon, 1835, p. 58 ; A. Agassiz, Revision of tbe Echini, Parts 

 I and II, pp. 91, 263, Plate 2, fig. 4, Plate 5, figs. 1 to 18, 1872. Ech'mus punc- 

 tulatus Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., p. 47, 1816. Echinocidaris punctulata Des- 

 moulin, Syn., p. 306, 1837. Echinocidaris Davisii A. Agassiz, Bulletin Mus, 

 Comp. Zoology, vol. i,p. 20, 1863; Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, 

 p. 340, 1866. 



Vineyard Sound to the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico. Common at 

 Wood's Hole, and in Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's Bay, 1 to 12 fathoms; 

 off' Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 4 to 5 fathoms ; Long Island Sound, near 

 New Haven, and at Charles Island, not common ; Fort Macon, North 

 Carolina (coll. Dr. Yarrow). Off' Tortugas, 13 to 125 fathoms, (Pour- 

 tales). West Florida (E. Jewett). 



Echinarachnius PARMA Gray. Plate XXXV, fig. 267. (p. 362.) 



Ann. Phil., p. 6, 1825 ; A. Agassiz, Revision of Echini, Parts I aud II, pp. 107, 316, 

 Plates ll"!, figs. 4, 5, 11'', figs. 4, 5, 12, figs. 1-13, 1872. Scuiella parma Lamarck, 

 Anim. sans vert., p. 11, 1816. 



New Jersey to Labrador. According to Mr. A. Agassiz, it occurs in the 

 North Pacific, on the west coast of America, from the Aleutian Islands 

 to Vancouver Island, and on the coast of Asia at Kamtchatka, 30 to 70 

 fathoms; aud also at New Holland ; India; Indian Ocean; Eed Sea, 

 etc. Common along the entire coast of New England and Long Island, 

 from low-water to 100 fathoms, sand. Off New Jersey, on a distant 

 bank, in 32 fathoms, (Captain Gedney). Very abundant at Saint 

 George's Bank and vicinity, 15 to 430 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). 



Mellita pentapora Liitken. 



Bidrag til Kundskab om Echiuiderne, p. 107, in Vldensk. Middelelser, 1864 ; Ver- 

 rill, Trans. Connecticut Academy, vol. i, p. 345, 1867. Echinus pentaporus 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 3189, 1788. Encope pentapora Agassiz, Mouog. Scut., 

 Plate 3, 1841. ScuteUa quinquefora Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., p. 9, 1816. Mel- 

 lita quinquefora Agassiz, Mon. Scut., p. 36, 1841 ; Catal. Rais., in Ann. Sci., vol. 

 vii, p. 138, 1847. Mellita testudinaria Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1851, p. 36 ; 

 Verrill, this Report, pp. 427, 429, (see errata). Mellita testudinafa Agassiz, 

 Mon. Scut., p. 40, Plate 4*^, figs. 7-9, 1841 ; A. Agassiz, Revision of the Echini, 



