256 NEW-YORK FAUNA — MOLLUSCA. 
Color. Shell bluish white ; cartilages and stalk at the base of the shell orange. 
Length of shell, 1°0; of stalk, 1°0-6°0. 
Found on the bottoms of vessels and driftwood. I have adopted Dr. Gould’s description 
of this species. 
GENUS CINERAS. Leach. 
Animal with the mantle almost entirely naked, thick and subcartilaginous. Peduncle long 
and thick. With the general form of the preceding. Shell rudimentary, composed of 
five oblong small, very distant valves, two of which are on the side of the gap, and the 
other dorsal. 
CINERAS VITTATA. 
(STATE COLLECTION.) 
Lepas vittata, SOLANDER. Cineras id. Lam. An. sans vert. Vol 5, p. 407, Ed. prior. 
Cineras id. Jay, Catalogue Shells, p. 7. Gouxp, Invertebrata of Mass, p. 22. 
Description. Body a membranous sac, scarcely distinct from the peduncle, terminating in 
two points, deeply channelled between. Mouth surrounded by twelve long slender curved 
subtriangular cirri, deeply cleft, with long ciliz on the internal edges and short stiff sete 
externally. Valves exceedingly minute. 
Color. Whitish, membranaceous, with numerous longitudinal stripes of a dark chocolate- 
brown with irregular margins, appearing through the cuticular coverings: abdominal cirri 
whitish ; on the sides punctate, and margined with dusky. 
Total length, 1°3; of body, 0°7. 
Occurring on ship’s bottoms in the harbor of New-York. Found also on the larger sluggish 
fishes. 
