262 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



Cirripedia. 



Injurious : 



a. By dulling the edge of knives and spades employed in 

 " cutting in" whale blubber: 



2270. Whale barnacle (Coronula diadema, Lam.) on dried skin of " hump- 



back " whale. New England coast. U. S. Fish Commission. 



&. By obstructing the progression of vessels upon which 

 they affix themselves : 



2271. Barnacles (liala-nm rugatw, &c.). California. H. Hemphill. 



ANNULOSA. 



Annelida. WORMS AND LEECHES. 

 ' A. Useful: 



1. In surgery and medicine : 



3226. Leech (MacroMella decora, Verrill). New Haven, Conn. A. E. Ver- 



rill. 



3227. Ditto. (Macrobdella sp.) Mountain Lake, Cal. H. Hemphill. 



2. For bait in fishing : 



3228. Earthworm (Lumlricus terrcstris, L.). Washington, D. C. W. Pal- 



mer. 



3229. Sea-worm (Nereis sp. ?). San Francisco, Cal. H. Hemphill. 



3. For food: 



19713. Dried worms (Ephydra sp.). Prepared for food by the Monachee Pi- 



Ute Indians. Owen's Lake, Cal. Stephen Powers. 



19714. Dried worms. Used in making soup by the Monachee Pi-Ute Indians. 



Owen's Lake, Cal. Stephen Powers. 



B. Injurious: 

 1. By boring into and destroying oyster- shells: 



329G3a. Oyster-shell, showing ravages (of Heteronereist). South Norwalk, 

 Conn. Hoyt Brothers. 



NOTE. Insects and Iarva3, commonly called worms, affecting 

 chiefly agricultural interests, are not here included. 



EADIATA. 

 Radiates. SEA-URCHINS, STARFISH, CORALS, MEDUSA, ETC. 



y. B. Strictly ornamental corals and gorgonias, having no special 

 useful application, have, for the same reasons which neces- 

 sitated the exclusion of the solely ornamental shells, been 

 here omitted. 



A. "Useful: 



1. Food-producing: 



3226. Trepang; Beche-de-mer (Holothuria sp.?). San Diego, Cal. II. 

 Hemphill. 



