446 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [740] 



not aware that this species has been found south of Cape Cod, but it 

 will probably be found hereafter, since 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 Duch. and Mich., 

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

 vol. x, p. 335, 1866. Gemmaria 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 Mauau, 

 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 pubescens, 

 (coll. Captain Gedney). 



MADREPORARIA. 



ASTRANGIA DAN^] 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. Astrangia astrwiformis 

 Edw. and Haime, Ann. des. Sci. Nat., vol. xii, p. 181, 1850 5 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 New Haven, at Savin Rock, off Thimble Islands, 

 etc., 1 to 6 fathoms, rocks ; Watch Hill, Rhode 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. 



PORIFEEA or SPONGL3E. 



CALCAREA. 



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 ; Bowerbank, Monog. British Spoiigiadie, 

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

 Fauna Grcenlaudica, p. 448, 1780. Sycandra ciliata Hseckel, Die Kalkschwainnie, 



