740 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



not aware that tliis species has been found south of Cape Cod, but it 

 will probably be found hereafter, Since the Gyanea is common. 



Epizoanthus Amerioanus Verrill. Plate XXXVIII, figs. 28G, 287. 

 (p. 510.) 



American Journal of Science, vol. ii, p. 331, 1871 ; Dana, Corals and Coral Isl- 

 ands, ed. i, p. 62, figs 1, 2, 1872. Zoanthus parasiticus Verrill, Revision of 

 Polyps, in Mem. Boston Soc. N. H., vol. i, p. 34, 1864, (not of Duch. and Mich., 

 1860.) Zoanthus Americanus Verrill, op. cit., p. 45; Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. X, p. 335, 1863. Genimaria Americana Verrill, American Naturalist, vol. ii, 

 p. 9, fig. 42. 



Off New Jersey to Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in deep water. Off Block 

 Island, 29 fathoms, on shells occupied hy Uupagurus ; off Grand Manau, 

 in 40 to 50 fathoms, on shells covering Enpagurus^ and in 109 fathoms, 

 on rocks ; off Saint George's Bank, 430 fathoms, on rocks, (S. I. Smith 

 and O. Harger) ; Saint George's Bank, GO fathoms, on shells occupied 

 by Eiqyagurus (Smith and Harger) ; Gulf of Saint Lawrence, on rocks, 

 ( Whiteavesj ; Massachusetts Bay (J. E. Gray). Off' ISTew Jersey, N. lat. 

 40"^, W. long. 73°, 32 fatho.Tis, on shells inhabited by Eupagurus inihescens, 

 (coll. Captain Gedney). 



madreporaria. 



ASTRANGIA Dan^ Agassiz. (p. 408.) 



Proc. American Assoc, vol. ii, p. 68, 1849 {not of Edw. and Haime, 1850) ; Ver- 

 rill, Revision Polyps, p. 40, 1864 ; A. and Mrs. E. C. Agassiz, Sea-Side Studies, p. 

 16, figs. 16-20, 1865 ; Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 335, 1866; 

 Dana, Corals and Coral Islands, p. 68, figures, 1872. Astrangia astrwiformis 

 Edw. and Haime, Ann. des. Sci. Nat., vol. xii, p. 181, 1850 ; Coralliaires, vol. ii, 

 p. 614, 18.57 ; Leidy, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad., vol. iii, p. 139, Plate 

 X, figs. 9-16, 1855; Verrill, Revision of Polyps, j). 39, 1864. 



Xorth Florida and west Florida to Cape Cod. Common in Long 

 Island Sound, near New Haven, at Savin Rock, off Thimble Islands, 

 etc., 1 to 6 fathoms, rocks; Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 4 to 5 fathoms; 

 Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's Bay, 2 to 15 fathoms ; Fort Macon, North 

 Carolina (coll. Dr. Yarrow). Charleston, South Carolina (Agassiz). 

 West Florida (E. Jewett). 



PORIFERA or SPONGLE. 



■ CALCAREA. 



Grantia ciliata Fleming, (p. 330.) 



British Anim., p, 325 ; Johnston, Brit. Sponges and Lithophytes, p. 176, Plate 

 20, figs. 4, 5, Plate 21, figs. 6, 7, 1842 ; Bowerbauk, Monog. British Spougiadip, 

 vol. i, Plate 26, figs. 345, 346^; vol. ii, p. 19, 1868. Spongia ciliata Fabricius, 

 Fauna Grcenlaudica, p. 448, 1780. Sycandra ciliata HLCckel, DieKalksch^Yumme, 



