[701] INVERTEBRATE ANJMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 407 



10 to 20 fathoms 5 Bay of Fundy, off Grand Menan, Eastport Harbor, 

 and South Bay, 6 to 20 fathoms, soft mad. Gulf of Saint Lawrence 

 (Whiteaves). 



GLANDULA AKENICOLA Verrill. (p. 502.) 



Amer. Jour. Science, ser. iii, vol. iii, pp. 211, 283, 1872. 



Body subglobular, rather higher than broad, the whole surface cov 

 ered with grains of sand, forming a continuous layer. When the sand 

 is removed the surface of the test is reticulately wrinkled and pitted, 

 Dot furnished with fibers, except at base, where there are a few long, 

 slender, thread-like white ones. Tubes terminal, near together, in the 

 alcoholic specimens short, forming low verrucse, swollen at base, the 

 ends a little prominent and naked. Apertures square, with four small 

 lobes. The test is tough and opaque. Height, about 12 mm ; breadth, 

 lO 111 ; often larger. 



Murray Bay, Gulf of Saint Lawrence (Dr. J. W. Dawson). Saint 

 George s Bank, 28 fathoms, sand, abundant, (S. I. Smith). Off Cutty- 

 hunk Island and Buzzard s Bay (T. H. Prudden). 



GLANDULA. Species undetermined, (p. 502.) 

 Vineyard Sound and off Martha s Vineyard, 10 to 20 fathoms, sand. 



f CYNTHIA PARTITA Stimpson. Plate XXXIII. fig. 246. (p. 311.) 



Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. History, vol. iv, p. 231, 1852; Binney, op. cit., p. 18 : Verrill, 

 Amer. Jour. Science, vol. iii, p. 213, 1872. (?) Cynthia rugosa Agassiz, Proc. 

 Amer. Assoc., vol. ii, p. 159, 1850 (description inadequate) ; Binney, op. cit., p. 

 20 (copied from the preceding). Cynthia stelUfera Verrill (var.), Amer. Jour. 

 Science, vol. i, p. 93, figs. 5, 6, a, b, 1871. 



North Carolina to Massachusetts Bay. Common in Long Island 

 Sound, Vineyard Sound, and Buzzard s Bay, low-water to 15 fathoms. 

 Boston Harbor, 4 fathoms (Stimpson). Off New London, Connecticut 

 (T. M. Pruddeu). 



CYNTHIA CAKNEA Verrill. Plate XXXI LI, figs. 247, 248. (p. 495.) 



American Jour. Science, ser. iii, vol. i, p. 94, figs. 7,8,9,1871. Ascidia carnca 

 Agassiz, Proc. American Assoc. for Adv. Sci., ii, p. 159, 1850 (description insuffi 

 cient) ; Binney, in Gould s Invertebrata of Mass., ed. ii, p. 25,. Plate 24, figs. 334, 

 335, 1870 (young), (f ) Cynthia f/utta Stimpson, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol . 

 iv, p. 231, 1852 (young) ; Binney, op. cit., p. 19, 1870. Cynthia placenta (pars) 

 Packard, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i, p. 277, 1867 ; Biuney, op. cit., p. 19, 

 Plate 23, figs. 322, 1870 ; Verrill, Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. xlix, p. 424, 1870. 



Martha s Vineyard to Labrador. Off Gay Head, 10 fathoms, stony ; 

 common in Eastport Harbor and Bay of Fundy, low-water to 109 

 fathoms; Casco Bay, less common, 10 to 40 fathoms. Massachusetts 

 Bay (Stimpson). Labrador (Packard). 



This species is closely allied to C. rustica (Linue, sp.) from Iceland, 

 and may eventually prove to be identical. 



