[743] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 449 



4 mm to 10 mm , mostly about 5 mm to 6 mm ; diameter of the oscules, in dry 

 specimens, about I 111 &quot; 1 . 



Korth Carolina to Cape Cod. Very common in Long- Island Sound 

 and Vineyard Sound, 1 to 8 fathoms ; Watch Hill, Rhode Island $ Great 

 Egg Harbor, New Jersey. 



This species has a much finer and more delicate texture than C. ocu- 

 lata* due to the smaller fibers and spicules, as well as to the smaller 

 meshes of the skeleton. The branches are also smaller and much more 

 numerous than they usually are in that species. 



HALICHONDRIA. PANICEA Johnston. 



Brit. Sponges, p. 114, Plate 10, Plate 11, fig. 5, 1842 ; Bo werbank, British Spongiadae, 

 vol. i, p. 195, Plate 19, figs. 300, 303 ; vol. ii, p. 229, 188G. Spongia panicea Pallas, 

 Elench. Zoopli., p. 383, 1766. Tedania (?), this Report, p. 498. 



Rhode Island to the Arctic Ocean ; northern coasts of Europe to Great 

 Britain. Abundant at Watch Hill, Rhode Island, on algre, in 4 to 8 

 fathoms ; off Gay Head 5 Casco Bay j Bay of Fundy. 



HALICHONDRIA, species undetermined, a. 



Watch Hill, Rhode Island, associated with the preceding. 



Grows in large tuberous masses, on algas, like the last, but has a 

 smoother surface and finer and firmer texture. (See p. 498.) 



HALICHONDRIA ?, species undetermined, &. (p. 334.) 

 Long Island Sound near New Haven ; Vineyard Sound. 

 Forms broad, uneven incrustations on the under side of stones, at 



low-water mark. Color when living, bright yellow. Oscules rather large, 



conspicuous. 



HALICHONDRIA ?, species undetermined, c. 



Vineyard Sound, on the under side of overhanging banks, on the salt 

 marshes near Waquoit; on the piles of wharves at Wood s Hole. 



Forms large, irregular, thick masses, often containing much foreign 

 matter; surface uneven, rising into irregular prominences. Soft and 

 brittle. 



This is, perhaps, a species of Reniera Schmidt (Hymeniacidon Bow- 

 erbank).* 



RENIERA ?, species undetermined, a. (p. 334.) 



Vineyard Sound, 1 to 10 fathoms. Forms large, irregular, soft 

 masses, 3 to 5 inches in diameter, of a light yellow color when living. 



EENIERA ?, species undetermined, &. 



Vineyard Sound, 3 to 10 fathoms. Forms large, irregular, thick 

 masses, ^vith numerous acute, irregular, often ragged, conical promi 

 nences, rising from its upper surface. 



* It was not studied carefully when recerit ; and I have no specimens of this and sev 

 eral of the other species at hand, for most of the sponges were sent elsewhere for com 

 parison with named types, and have not yet been returned. 



