[593J INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, F/IT. 



the cirrus; a. single strong blade spino snp]>orts tli<> sctigerous loin-. 

 The lower minus has a rounded sctigerous lobe, and a large bwadly- 

 ronnded laraellifbrtft process, nearly as long as the longest one of the 

 npper ramus and mtiol) broader; the setigerous lobe bears a broad fan- 

 shaped fascicle of compound setre, similar to those of the up])er ramus, 

 but a little shorter, and a single black basal spine; the ventral cirrus 

 is slender, and there is a broad, rounded ventral lamella at its base. 

 The setae are rather stout, with a broad, thin, blade-like, terminal piece, 

 which is generally lanceolate, with a rounded point, and often some- 

 what curved, but more commonly straight. A few setae have a slender 

 acute terminal piece. Anal segment with numerous small slender papil- 

 liform processes on each side, forming a circle. 



Length up to 35 mm ; breadth about 2.5 mm . 



Vineyard Sound, swimming actively at the surface, both in the even- 

 ing and in the brightest sunshine, in the middle of the day ; July 3 to 

 August 11. 



DIOPATRA CUPREA Claparede. Plate XIII, figs. 67, 08. (p. 346.) 



Annelides clidtopodes du golfe de Naples, in Memoires de la Soci6t6 de Physiques 

 et d'Hist. Nat. de Geneve, vol. xix, p. 432, 1888. Nereis cuprea Bosc, Hist. nat. 

 des Vers, vol. i, p. 143 (t. Claparede). 



Charleston, South Carolina, to Long Island Sound and Vineyard 

 Sound. 



MARPHYSA LETDYI Quatrefages. Plate XII, fig. 64. (p. 319.) 



Histoire nat. des Annel6s, vol. i, p. 337, 1865 (M. Leidii}. Eunice sanguined 

 Leidy, Mar. Inv. Fauna of Rhode Island and New Jersey, p. 15, 1855 (non 

 Montagu). 



Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, to Long Island Sound and Vineyard 

 Sound. Low-water mark to 10 fathoms. 



LYCIDICE AMERICANA Verrill, sp. nov. (p. 508.) 



Body depressed, slender, narrowed toward each end; segments well- 

 marked. Head much depressed, oblong, narrowed somewhat toward 

 the front, which is truncate and somewhat emarginate in the middle ; 

 lower side bilobed, the lobes well rounded. The two eyes are lateral, 

 just outside the bases of the lateral antennae. The three antennae are 

 subequal, nearly as long as the diameter of the head; the odd median 

 one is apparently a little longer than the lateral, and placed slightly 

 farther back. The dorsal cirri are long and slender, exceeding the 

 diameter of the body in living specimens; they have a small lobe near 

 the base. Anal cirri four ; the two lower exceeding the diameter of the 

 body; the two upper ones less than half as long. Color light red, with 

 a bright red dorsal vessel and dark brown intestines, showing through in 

 the middle ; eyes dark red. 



Length, while living, about 40 rara ; greatest diameter, 1.5 min . 



Off Gay Head, in 19 fathoms, soft mud. 

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