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



Porpitcc. 

 PIIYSALIA PELAGICA Lamarck, (p. !.">().) 



Syst. dc.s Aniin. .sans Vert,, p. :rU, 1801 ; Lesson, Ar-.-ili-pli.... p. :, i.",, l - i;;. //, 

 pelagica Osbeck, Itin., p. 284, Plate 12, lig. 1, 1757 (t. LeMOn B 

 plij/HnliH Linne", Syst. Nat., oil. xii, p. 101)0, 17(57. Mwlitxn r,trnn-ll Mill I- 

 der Bori. Naturf., vol. ii, p. 190, Plato 9, lig. 2 (t. Lesson) ; dm-lin, Syst. \ 

 p. :U39, 1789. Phymlia caravella Eschscholtz ; Lusson, Hist. Nat. dcs /mpli. 

 Acalephes, Plato II (explanation). rhyxiilitnirKthiwi Tilc.sius. in Kni-ni,t, 

 Reise, vol. iii, p. 91, Plato 2:$, tigs. 1-6, 1813 (t. Lesson); Agassi/, Contributions , 

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

 this Report, p. 450. PhysaUa aurigera McCready, op. cit., p. 176, 1 - 



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, Ehode Island (D. C. Eaton). 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. do la Coquille, Zool., vol. ii, pp. 2,52, Plate 6, figs. 1,2; Aca- 

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

 Medusa velella Linne", 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) $ Loug Is- 

 land Sound (A. Agassiz). 



POLYPI or ANTHOZOA. 

 ALCYONARIA. 



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



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

 of Polyps of Eastern Coast 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 toG.ulf of Saint Lawrence. Off Watch Hill, Ehode Island, 

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

 to 10 fathoms ; common in Massachusetts Bay, Casco Bay, Bay of Fuudy, 

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

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



Leptogorgia tenuis Verrill. 



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

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

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



" Bay of New York." 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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