712 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



BuauLA TURRiTA Verrill. Plate XXXIY, figs. 258, 259. (p. 311.) 



Cellularia turrita Desor, Proc. Boston Soo. Nat. Hist., vol. iii, p. 66, 1848. Cel- 

 lularia fastigiata Leidy, op. cit., p. 142 (non Limi€, sp.). 



North Oaroliua to Casco Bay. Yery abundant in Great Egg Harbor, 

 New Jersey 5 Long Island Sound; Buzzard's Bay; and Vineyard Sound, 

 low- water to 15 fathoms ; Portland, Maine, on piles of wharf. 



Flustrina, 

 Membranipora pilosa Farre. Plate XXXIY, figs. 262, 263. (p. 496.) 



Phil. Trans., 1837, p. 412, Plate 27, figs. 1 to 5 ; Johnston, Brit. Zo6ph.,ed. i, p. 280, 

 Plate 34, figs. 10, 12, 1838 ; ed. ii, p. 327, Plate 56, fig. 6, 1847 ; Smitt, op. cit., 

 1867, p. 368, Plate 2(>, fig. 49. Flustra pilosa Linn6, Fauna Suec, ed. ii, p. 531) 

 (t. Smitt). Escliara pilosa Pallas, Elench, Zooph., p. 50, 1766. Sippothoa 

 rugosa Stimpson, Invert. Grand Manan p. 18 (variety catenularia). Tubipora 

 catenularia Jameson, Wern. Mem., vol. i, p. 561 (t. Smitt). 



Long Island Sound to the Arctic Ocean ; Finmark to the Mediter- 

 rauean. Yery abundant near New Haven, at Savin Eock, Thimble 

 Islands, etc., in 1 to 6 fathoms, and in tide-pools, on Chondrus crispus, 

 Fhyllophora and other algse, stones, etc. ; Watch Hill, Ehode Island, 4 

 to 5 fathoms, on algse, abundant ; Yineyard Sound ; Massachusetts Bay ; 

 Casco Bay; Bay of Fundy, and northward. The variety catenularia is 

 common in Casco Bay and Bay of Fundy, from above low-water mark 

 to 50 fathoms. It occurs on the coasts of Northern Europe at various 

 depths down to 300 fathoms. Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Canada and 

 Labrador (Dawson). 



Membranipora lineata Busk. (p. 406.) 



Catal. Mar. Polyzoa, part ii, p. 58, Plate 61, fig. 1 ; Smitt, op. cit., 1867, p. 363, 

 Plate 20, figs. 23 to 31. Flustra lineata LinncS, Systema Nat., ed. xii, p. 1301 ; 

 Johnston, Brit. Zooph., ed. ii, p. 349, Plate 66, fig. 4. Escharina lineata Leidy, 

 Jonrn. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad., ser. ii, vol. iii, p. 141, Plate 10, fig. 22, 

 1855. 



Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, to the Arctic Ocean; Spitzbergen to 

 Great Britain, low-water mark to 50 fathoms. Common near New Haven, 

 from low-water mark to 6 fathoms, on stones, oysters, algic, etc.; Watch 

 Hill; Ehode Island; Yineyard Sound; Casco Bay; Bay of Fundy, and 

 northward. 



Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Canada. 



Membranipora TENUIS Desor. (p. 420.) 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. iii, p. 66, 1848. 



Long Island Sound to Cape Cod. Common near New Haven and in 

 Yineyard Sound, low-water to 10 fathoms. Muskeget Channel, in 5 

 fathoms, (Desor). 



