[713] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 419 



JEscharina. 



ESCHARIPORA PUNCTATA Smitt. (p. 424.) 



Op. cit., for 1867, Appendix, p. 4, (separate copies, p. 4), Plate 24, figs. 4-7, 1368. 

 Lepralia punclata Hassal, Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. vii, p. 368. Plate 9, fig. 7 ; vol. ix, 

 p. 407 ; Johnston, Brit. Zooph., ed. ii, pp. 312 and 478, Plate 55, fig. 1. 



Vineyard Sound, northward ; northern coasts of Europe to Southern 

 Norway and Great Britain. Vineyard Sound, 6 to 12 fathoms, on 

 shells, etc., common. Saint George s Bank (S. I. Smith). (I) Fossil in 

 the Post-Pliocene of Canada (Dawson). 



ESCHAHELLA VARiABiLis Verrill. Plate XXXIII, fig. 256. (p. 419.) 



Escliarina variaUlis Leidy, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, ser. ii, vol. iii, p. 

 142, Plate 11, fig. 37. Lepralia variolosa Desor, op. cit., p. 66, 1848 (not of 

 Johnston). 



South Carolina to Cape Cod and Massachusetts Bay. Very abundant 

 in Great Egg Harbor ; Long Island Sound ; Buzzard s Bay ; Vineyard 

 Sound ; Nantucket Harbor ; low- water to 25 fathoms. Saint George s 

 Bank, 20 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). Fort Macon, North Carolina (coll. Dr. 

 Yarrow). 



HYALINA Smitt. Plate XXXIV, fig. 264. (p. 420.) 



Op. cit., for 1867, Ap., p. 16, (separate copies, p. 16), Plate 25, figs. 84-87, 1868. Cel- 

 lepora hyalina, Liiine&quot;, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1286. Lepralia hyalina Johnston, 

 Brit. Zooph., ed. ii, p. 301, Plate 54, fig. 1. Ctllepora nitida Fabricius, Fauna 

 Groenl.,p. 435, 1780. 



Long Island Sound to Greenland; Spitzbergen to Great Britain. 

 Common near New Haven and at Thimble Island, in tide-pools and from 

 1 to 6 fathoms, on algse ; Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 4 to 5 fathoms; 

 Buzzard s Bay and Vineyard Sound, abundant; Casco Bay; Bay of 

 Fundy, and northward. Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Canada (Daw- 

 son). 



(?) LEPRALIA PALLASIANA Busk. (p. 496.) 



Catal. Mar.Polyzoa, Brit. Mus., part ii, p. 81, Plate 83, figs. 1, 2 ; Smitt, op. cit-&amp;gt; 

 for 1867, Ap., p. 19, (separate copies, p. 19), Plate 26, fig. 93, 1868. Eschara Pal- 

 lasiana Moll, die Seerinde, p. 64, Plate 3, fig. 13 (t. Smitt). Lepralia pediostoma 

 Hassal, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. vii, p. 368, Plate 9, fig. 4 ; vol. ix, p. 407 ; 

 Johnston, Brit. Zooph., ed. ii, p. 315, Plate 55, fig. 7. Escliarina pediostoma 

 Leidy, op. cit., p. 141, Plate 10, fig. 23, 1855. 



Khode Island, northward ; northern coasts of Europe to Southern 

 Norway and Great Britain. Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 4 to 5 fathoms, 

 on algae; Vineyard Sound, 6 to 14 fathoms, on Pliyllopliora and other 

 algse, shells, etc. 



Our specimens do not agree perfectly with the European form. Close 

 to the proximal border of the aperture there is a large, but not very 

 prominent, broad-based spine, or subconical process, which is not 

 conspicuous in a view from above, but is prominent in a side-view. In 



