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uot aware that this species has been found south of Cape Cod, but it 

 will probably be found hereafter, siuce the Cyanea is common. 



EPIZOANTHUS AMERICANUS Verrill. Plate XXXVIII, figs. 286, 287. 

 (p. 510.) 



American Journal of Science, vol. ii, p. 361, 1871 ; Dana, Corals and Coral Isl 

 ands, ed. i, p. 62, figs 1, 2, 1872. Zoanthus parasiticus Verrill, Revision of 

 Polyps, in Mem. Boston Soc. N. H., vol. i, p. 34, 1864, (not of Ducli. and Mich., 

 1860.) Zoanthus Americanus Verrill, op. cit., p. 45; Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. x, p. 335, 1866. G-emmaria Americana Verrill, American Naturalist, vol. ii, 

 p. 9, fig. 42. 



Off New Jersey to Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in deep water. Off Block 

 Island, 29 fathoms, on shells occupied by Eupagurus ; off Grand Manaii, 

 in 40 to 50 fathoms, on shells covering Eupagurus, and in 109 fathoms, 

 on rocks ; off Saint George s Bank, 430 fathoms, on rocks, (S. I. Smith 

 and O. Harger) ; Saint George s Bank, 60 fathoms, on shells occupied 

 by Eupagurus (Smith and Harger) ; Gulf of Saint Lawrence, on rocks, 

 ( Whiteaves) ; Massachusetts Bay (J. E. Gray). Off New Jersey, N. lat. 

 40, W. long. 73, 32 fathoms, on shells inhabited by Eupagurus pubeseem, 

 (coll. Captain Gedney). 



MADREPORARIA. 



ASTRANGIA DAN^E Agassiz. (p. 408.) 



Proc. American Assoc., vol. ii, p. 68, 1849 (not of Edw. and Haime, 1850) ; Ver 

 rill, Revision Polyps, p. 40, 1864; A. and Mrs. E. C. Agassiz, Sea-Side Studies, p. 

 16, figs. 16-20, 1865 ; Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 335, 1866 ; 

 Dana, Corals and Coral Islands, p. 68, figures, 1872. Aatrangia astrwiformis 

 Edw. and Haime, Ann. des. Sci. Nat., vol. xii, p. 181, 1850 ; Coralliaires, vol. ii, 

 p. 614, 1857 ; Leidy, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad., vol. iii, p. 139, Plate 

 x, figs. 9-16, 1855 ; Verrill, Revision of Polyps, p. 39, 1864. 



North Florida and west Florida to Cape Cod. Common in Long 

 Island Sound, near Kew Haven, at Savin Eock, off Thimble Islands, 

 etc., 1 to &amp;lt;3 fathoms, rocks ; Watch Hill, Ehode Island. 4 to 5 fathoms ; 

 Vineyard Sound and Buzzard s Bay, 2 to 15 fathoms ; FortMacon, North 

 Carolina (coll. Dr. Yarrow). Charleston, South Carolina (Agassiz). 

 West Florida (E. Jewett). 



PROTOZOA. 



POEIFERA or SPONGLE. 



CALCAREA. 



j GRANTIA CILIATA Fleming, (p. 330.) 



British Anim., p, 325 ; Johnston, Brit. Sponges and Lithophytes, p. 176, Plate 

 20, figs. 4, 5, Plate 21, figs. 6, 7, 1842 ; Bowerbauk, Monog. British Spougiadae, 

 vol. i, Plate 26, figs. 345, 346; vol. ii, p. 19, 1866. Spongia ciliata Fabricins, 

 Fauna Grcenlaudica, p. -448, 1780. Sycandra ciliata Heeckel, Die Kalkschwamnie, 



