416 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [710] 



VESICULARIA ARMATA Verrill, new sp. (p. 405.) 



Cells stout, oval, broad at base, with a short and narrow pedicel, at 

 tached either singly or in pairs along slender, filiform, creeping stems, 

 which often anastomose, the branches being mostly opposite. Distal 

 end of cells prolonged into four conical processes, each of which, when 

 perfect, supports a long slender spinule, nearly half as long as the cell. 

 Tentacles not seen. Cells yellowish horn-color, with an oval, dark 

 brown internal organ, visible in most of the cells. 



Vineyard Sound, on floating sea-weeds attached to Sertularice, Hale- 

 oium gracile, etc. ; also in 6 to 10 fathoms, rocky, on Sertularia argentea. 



VESICULARIA FUSCA Smitt. (p. 420.) 



Op. cit., p. 502, Plate 13, figs. 37-39, 1866. Avenella fusca (?) Dalyell, Rare and 

 Rem. Anim. of Scotland, vol. ii, p. 65 ; vol. i, Plate 12, fig. 11, (t. Smitt). 



Long Island Sound northward ; northern coasts of Europe to Great 

 Britain. Off South End, near New Haven, 3 to 5 fathoms, on Alcyon- 

 idium ramosum. 



FARRELLA FAMILIARIS. (p. 487.) 



Vesicularia (Farrella) familiaris Smitt, op. cit., p. 502, Plate 13, fig. 36, 1866. 

 Plumatella familiaris Gros, Bulletin Soc. Imp. Mascou, vol. xxii, p. 567, Plate 6, 

 G. figs. 1-10 (t. Smitt). Farrella pedicellata Alder, Catal., p. 68, Plate 6, figs. 

 1-3 ; Quart. Jour. Miscrosc. Soc., vol. v, p. 24, Plate 14, figs. 1-3. 



Long Island Sound to Vineyard Sound and northward ; coasts of 

 Scandinavia and Great Britain. Thimble Islands, near New Haven, in 

 tide-pools, on algae ; Casco Bay. Saint George s Bank (S. I. Smith). 



CHILOSTOMATA. 



Cellularina. 

 ^ETEA ANGUINA Lamotiroux. (p. 405.) 



Soc. Phil., 1812, p. 184 (t. Smitt) ; Polyp, flex., p. 153, Plate 3, fig. 6 ; Expos. 

 Metkodique, p. 9, Plate 65, fig. 15 ; Smitt, op. cit., p. 280, Plate 16, figs. 2-4, 

 1867. Sertularia angnina Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1317. Anguinaria spat- 

 ulata Johnston, Brit. Zooph., ed. ii, p. 290, Plate 50, figs. 7, 8. 



Long. Island Sound, northward ; coasts of Scandinavia and Great 

 Britain. In Vineyard Sound it was common at low-water mark and in 

 6 to 14 fathoms, on Phylloplwra and hydroids. Off New Haven, 4 to 6 

 fathoms, on Halecium gracile. 



EUCRATEA CHELATA Lamouroux. (p. 405.) 



Polyp. Corall. flex., p. 149, Plate 3, fig. 5, 1816 ; Expos. Meth., p. 8, Plate, 65, fig. 

 10 ; Smitt, op. cit., 1865, Plate 5, fig. 3 ; 1867, p. 281, Plate 16, figs. 7-9 ; Johns 

 ton, Brit. Zooph., ed. ii, p. 288, fig. 64. Sertularia chelata Linne&quot;, Systema Nat., 

 ed. x, p. 816. Cellularia chelata Pallas, Elench. Zooph., p. 25, 1766. 



Martha s Vineyard northward; northern coasts of Europe to Great 

 Britain. Off Gay Head, 10 fathoms, on hydroids and ascidians. Our 

 specimens differ somewhat from the figures of the European form ; the 



