74 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ARTHROSTRACA. AMl'IIII'ODA. 



PODOCERIDAE. 



Mass. — Off Half-way Rock, Salem; Vineyard Sound. 

 Jeffreys Ledge; Stelhvagen Bank; Georges Rank. 

 To a depth of 100 fathoms. 



233. Ericthonius minax (Smith). 



Cerapus minax Smith, Rept. U. S. commr. of fish & fisheries, 

 pt. 1, for 1871-1872 (1873), p. 565 [271]. " Long Island Sound, 

 Vineyard Sound." 



Mass. — Woods Hole ; Vineyard Sound. 

 Long Island Sound. 



COROPHIIDAE. 



234. Cerapus tubularis Say. 



Cerapus tubularis Say, Journ. acad. nat. sci. Phil., 1817, vol. 

 1, p. 50, pi. 4, figs. 7-11. "amongst fuci on the sea beach at 

 Egg-Harbour." Smith, Trans. Conn. acad. sci., 1882, vol. 4, p. 

 277, pi. 2a. 



Constructs a little slender, free tube, which it inhabits and car- 

 ries about upon its back when it travels. 



In eel-grass and among masses of a large compound ascidian 

 (Amoiirouci'urn jyellucichon) ; to a depth of 10 fathoms. 



Mass. — Off Falmouth ; off Nobska Point ; Vineyard Sound. 



Conn. — Noank Harbor. 



235. Siphonoecetes smithianus Kathbun, nom. nov. 



/Siphonoecetes cusjndatus Smith, Rept. U. S. commr. of fish & 

 fisheries, pt. 1, for 1871-1872 (1873), p. 566 [272]. "In deep 



WATER OFF ViNEYARD SoUND AND BuZZARDS BaY." Not iS. 



cusjndatus Metzger, Jahresb. naturh. ges. Hannover, 1871, vol. 

 21, p. 30. 



Inhabits tubes constructed of grains of sand ; on bottoms of 

 fine compact mud and sand. 



