on the Southern Coast of Neio England. 97 



and abundant), Crucihidum striatum^ Margarita ohscuraj 

 Cylichna alba. Of Annelids : — Clymene torquata^ Leidy ; 

 Ophelia simplex, Leidj ? ; Trophonia, sp. ; Sternaspis fossor^ 

 Aphrodite aculeata (large and common), Nephthys (large 

 species), 8ipunculus hernhardus, and species oi Nereis, Lum- 

 hriconereis, Aricia, &c. Of Crustacea : — species of Am- 

 pelisca (abundant), Unciola irrorata, and several other Am- 

 phipods, Crangon vulgaris, Pandalus annulicornis. On sandy 

 bottoms Echinarachnius parma was very abundant, as it was, 

 also, everywhere in the sounds ; for it is a widely diffused 

 species, occurring as far south as Great Egg Harbour ; Molgula 

 arenata, St., also occurred, with a iQw other species of interest. 

 A large species of sandy Foraminifera, often a quarter of an 

 inch in diameter, was abundant. In the channel between Gay 

 Head and No Man's Land the bottom is gravelly and stony ; 

 and here some very interesting species were found : among 

 the Radiata were : — Alcyonium cameum, Ag., Edwardsia 

 (new species), Orammaria gracilis, St., and many other 

 hydroids; Cribrella sanguinolenta; Asterias vulgaris^. ; Ophi- 

 opholis aculeata. Gray; Eury echinus drohachiensis, V. Of 

 AsciDiANS : — Amouroucium pallidum, V. ; Molgula papillosa, 

 v.; Cynthia carnea,Y .; C.hirsuta,^mn&j; C. partita, St., — 

 all northern species except the last. Of shells, many of the 

 northern forms already named and some additional species ; of 

 Crustacea — Eupagurus hemhardus. Cancer horealis (thrown 

 on shore and fragments dredged) , C. irroratus, with numerous 

 Amphipods. 



The brief lists of species given above are quite sufficient to 

 show the marked northern character of the fauna in the deeper 

 waters of this region. Several of the northern shells enume- 

 rated above have also been dredged by Mr. Sanderson Smith 

 in Gardiner's Bay, L. I., and some of them have long been 

 known from Montauk Point. Mr. Linsley, in his catalogue 

 of the shells of Connecticut*, also records many of the same 

 northern species, with a few additional ones, from Stonington. 

 I have been informed by Mr. H. C. Tnimbull, who collected 

 the shells attributed to Stonington, that all these northern 

 species were obtained by him from the stomachs of haddock 

 &c. which were taken within a few miles of Stonington. 

 This would indicate that the northern cold current has a 

 decided influence as far westward as that locality, beyond 

 which its influence has not yet been traced, 



* Sillimau's American Journal, ser. 1, vol. xlviii. 1845. 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 4. TW. ix. 7 



