. [737] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 443 



Porpitce. 

 + PHYSALIA PELAGICA Lamarck, (p. 450.) 



Syst. des Aiiim. sans Vert., p. 356, 1801 ; Lesson, Acaleplies, p. 545, 1843. Physalis 

 pelagica Osbeck, Itin., p. 284, Plate 12, fig. 1, 1757 (t. Lesson). Holothuria 

 physalis Linne&quot;, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1090, 1767. Medusa caravella Miiller, Besch. 

 der Berl. Naturf., vol. ii, p. 190, Plate 9, tig. 2 (t. Lesson) ; Ginelin, Syst. Nat., 

 p. 3139, 1789. Physalia caravella Eschscholtz ; Lesson, Hist. Nat. des Zooph. 

 Acaleplies, Plate 11 (explanation). Physalia arethusa Tiiesius, in Krusensterna 

 Reise, vol. iii, p. 91, Plate 23, figs. 1-6, 1813 (t. Lesson) ; Agassiz, Contributions , 

 vol. iv, pp. 335, 367, Plate 35, 1862 ; A. Agassiz, Catalogue, p. 214, figs. 351-354 ; 

 this Report, p. 450. Physalia aurigera McCready, op. cit., p. 176, 1859. 



Warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, coming north 

 ward in the Gulf Stream to the southern coast of New England and 

 Long Island ; and off Saint George s Bank and Nova Scotia. Not un 

 common, in good condition, in Vineyard Sound and Buzzard s Bay. 

 Watch Hill, Rhode Island (D. C. Baton). East of Saint George s Bank 

 (S. I. Smith). Fort Macon, North Carolina (coll- Dr. Yarrow). 



-- VELELLA MUTICA Lamarck, (p. 455.) 



Syst. des Anim. sans Vert., p. 355, 1801 ; Bosc, Hist. Nat. des Vers., vol. ii, p. 158; 

 Lesson, Voy.de la Coquille, Zool., vol. ii, pp. 2,52, Plate 6, figs. 1,2; Aca 

 leplies, p. 571, Plate 12, figs. 1,2; A. Agassiz, Catalogue, p. 216, figs. 355-357. 

 Medusa velella Linne&quot;, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1098. 



Tropical parts of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, coming northward 

 in the Gulf Stream as far as Nantucket and off Saint George s Bank. 

 Aspinwall (coll. F. H. Bradley) ; coasts of Florida (Agassiz) $, Long Is 

 land Sound (A. Agassiz). 



POLYPI or ANTHOZOA. 

 ALCYONARIA. 



I ALCYONIUM CARNEUM Agassiz. Plate XXXVIII, fig. 283. (p. 497.) 



Proc. American Association for Adv. of Science, 1850, p. 209; Verrill, Revision 

 of Polyps of Eastern Coasfc U. S*, in Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i, p. 

 4, 1864 ; Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 343, 1866. Halcyonium 

 carneum A. and E. C. Agassiz, Sea-Side Studies, p. 19, figs. 21-23, 1865. 



Khode Island to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Off Watch Hill, Khode Island, 

 4 to 5 fathoms; off (Juttyhunk Island, 10 to 15 fathoms; off Gay Head, 8 

 to 10 fathoms ; common in Massachusetts Bay, Casco Bay, Bay of Fundy r 

 and coast of Nova Scotia, low- water to 80 fathoms. Gulf of Saint Law 

 rence (Whiteaves). Saint George s Bank (S. I. Smith). 



. Leptogoryia tennis Verrill. 



Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i,p. 8,1864. Gorgonia tennis Verrill, Proc. 

 Boston Soc. N.H., vol. x, p. 339, 1866. Leptogorgia teres (error typ.) Verrill, 

 Amer. Jour. Science, vol. xlviii, p. 420, 1869. 



&quot;Bay of New York.&quot; Specimens in the museum of Yale College are 

 supposed to have come from Long Island Sound, but the exact locality 

 is not known. 

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