INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 737 



Porpifcc. 

 Physalia pelagica Lamarck, (p. 4.j0.) 



Syst. des Anim. sans Vert.^ p. 356, 1801 ; Lesson, Acalfephes, p. 545, 1843. Pkysalts 

 peJagica Osbeck, Itin., p. 284, Plate 12, fig. 1, 1757 (t. Lesson). Rolothuria 

 physalis Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1090, 1767. Medusa caraveUa Muller, Besch . 

 der Berl, Naturf., vol. ii, p. 190, Plate 9, fig. 2 (t. Lesson) ; Gmelin, Syst. Nat. , 

 p. 3139, 1789. Physalia caraveUa Eschscholtz ; Lesson, Hist. Nat. des Zooph . 

 Acalephes, Plate 11 (explanation). Physalia arethusa Tilesius, in Krusensterns 

 Reise, vol. iii, p. 91, Plate 23, figs. 1-6, 1S13 (t. Lesson) ; Agassiz, Contributions , 

 vol. iv, pp. 335, 367, Plate 3-5, 1862 ; A. Agassiz, Catalogue, p. 214, figs. 351-354 ; 

 this Report, p. 450. Physalix aurijera McCready, op. cit., p. 176, 1359. 



Warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, coming north- 

 ward in the Gulf Stream to the southern coast of New England and 

 Long Island; and oflF Saint George's Bank and Nova Scotia. Not un- 

 common, in good condition, in Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's Bay. 

 Watch Hill, Rhode Lsland (D. C, Eaton). East of Saint George's Bank 

 {S. L Smith). Fort Macon, North Carolina (coll- Dr. Yarrow). 



Velella MUTiCA Lamarck. (p. 455.) 



Syst. des Anim. sans Vert., p. 355, 1601 ; Bosc, Hist. Nat. des Vers., vol. ii, p. 158 ; 

 Lesson, Voy. de la Coquille, Zool., vol. ii, pp. 2, .52, Plate 6, figs. 1,2; Aca- 

 lephes, p. 571, Plate 12, figs. 1,2; A. Agassiz, Catalogue, p. 216, figs. 355-357. 

 Medusa velella Linud, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1093. 

 Tropical parts of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, coming northward 

 in the Gulf Stream as far as Nantucket and off Saint George's Bank. 

 Aspinwall (coll. F. H. Bradley) ; coasts of Florida (Agassiz); Long Is- 

 land Sound (A. Agassiz). 



POLYPI or ANTHOZOA. 

 ALCYONARIA. 



Alcy'ONILTI CARNEUii Agassiz. Plate XXXVIII, fig. 283. (p. 497.) 



Proe. American Association for Adv. of Science, 1350, p. 209 : Verrill, Revision 

 of Polyps of Eastern Coast U. S., in Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i, p. 



4, 1664 ; Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 343, 1866. Halcyonium 

 , carneum A. and E. C. Agassiz, Sea-Side Studies, p. 19, figs. 21-23, 1865. 



Rhode Island to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Off Watch Hill, Rhode Island , 

 4 to 5 fathoms; off Cuttyhuuk Island, 10 to 15 fathoms; off Gay Head, 8 

 to 10 fathoms ; common in Massachusetts Bay, Casco Bay, Bay of Fundy, 

 and coast of Nova Scotia, low- water to 80 fathoms. Gulf of Saint Law- 

 rence (Whiteaves). Saint George's Bank (S. I. Smith). 



Lcptogorgia tenuis Verrill. 



Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i, p. 8, 1864. Gorgonia tenuis Verrill, Proc. 

 Boston Soc. N.H., vol. x, p. 339, 1866. Leptogorgia teres (error typ.) Verrill, 

 Amer. Jour. Science, vol. xlviii, p. 420, 1369. 



"Bay of New York." Specimens in the museum of Yale College are 

 supposed to have come from Long Island Sound, but the exact locality 

 is not known. 



5. Mis. 61 47 



