718 KEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



pp. 141, 322, Plate 11, figs. 13-22, Plate 12'', Plate 12% figs. 1, 2, (name adopted 

 from Kleiu, 1734, accidentally binomial). 



New Jersey to Brazil ; very abiyidant along the whole eastern coast 

 of the United States, south of Cape Hatteras, and along the entire 

 coast of the Gulf of Mexico ; rare and local north of Cape Hatteras. 

 Vineyard Sound, 5 to 8 fathoms, rare and dead ; outer beach at Great 

 Egg Harbor, New Jersey, dead. Nantucket (Agassiz). 



ASTERIOIDEA. 



AsTERiAS ARENiooLA Stimpsou. Plate XXy, fig. 269. (p. 326.) 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. viii, p. 268, 1862 ; Verrill, vol. x, p. 339, 1866. 

 Asleracanthion berylimts Ag. MSS., A. Agassiz, Embryology of Echiuod., in Proc. 

 Amer. Acad., 1863 ; Embryology of the Starfish, in Agassiz Contributions, vol. 

 V, p. 3 ; Sea-Side Studies, p. 108, figs. 141-145, 1865 (t. Agassiz). 



Massachusetts Bay to Northern Florida and the northern shores of 

 the Gulf of Mexico ; rare and local, in sheltered localities, north of Mas- 

 sachusetts, as at Quahog Bay, east of Portland, Maine ; but not known 

 from the eastern part of the coast of Maine, nor in the Bay of Fundy. 



Very common in Long Island Sound ; Buzzard's Bay ; Vineyard 

 Sound; and along the shores of Long Island, from low-water to 15 

 fathoms. Not uncommon in Massachusetts Bay, at Nahant, Beverly, 

 &c. 



ASTERIAS FoRBESii Verrill. 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 345, 1866. Asteracanthion Forhesii Desor, 

 Proc. Boston Soc. N. H., vol. iii, p. 67, 1848. 



Buzzard's Bay to Beverly, Massachusetts. Vineyard Sound and off 

 Gay Head, 6 to 14 fathoms ; Buzzard's Bay, 6 fathoms ; Chelsea and 

 Beverly, Massachusetts, low-water. Vineyard Sound, 8 fathoms, (De- 

 sor). 



This is probably identical with the preceding species, the differences 

 being, perhaps, chiefly sexual, but I have not yet had opportunities to 

 satisfy myself fully in regard to this poiut, and, therefore, leave them, 

 for the present, under separate names. Should they be united, the 

 name Forhesii has the precedence over all others. 



AsTERiAS VULGARIS Stimpsou, MSS. (p. 496.) 



Packard, in Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, Dec, 1863 (no description); 

 Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 347, 1866 (description). Astera- 

 canthion ijalUdus Ag. MSS. ; A. Agassiz, Embryology, in Proc. Amer. Acad., 

 1863 (no description) ; Embryology of the Starfish, in Agassiz' Contributions, 

 vol. V, p. 3. Asierias ruhens Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 345 (no« Liund). 



Long Island Sound to Labrador, and (?) Greenland. Very abundant 

 in Massachusetts Bay, Casco Bay, Bay of Fundy, from above low- water 

 mark to 40 fathoms ; in the deeper parts of Vineyard Sound and off 

 Gay Head, in 6 to 25 fathoms, not uncommon ; off Watch Hill, Ehode 

 Island, 4 to 5 fathoms, common ; Faulkner's Island, Connecticut, low- 

 water, very rare. 



