INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 737 

 Forpitw. 

 Physalia pelagica Lamarck, (p. 450.) 



Syst. des Anim. sans Vert., p. 356, 1801 ; Lesson, Acal^plies, p. 545, 1843. Physalis 

 pelagica Osbeck, Itin., p. 284, Plate 12, fig. 1, 1757 (t. Lesson). Holothuria 

 physalis Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1090, 1767. Medusa caravella Miiller, Besch. 

 der Berl. Naturf., vol. ii, p. 190, Plate 9, fig. 2 (t. Lesson) ; Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 

 p. 3139, 1789. Physalia caravella Eschsclioltz ; Lesson, Hist. Nat. des Zoopli . 

 Acal^plies, Plate 11 (explanation). Physalia arethusa Tilesius, in Krusensterns 

 Reise, vol. iii, p. 91, Plate 23, figs. 1-6, 1813 (t. Lesson) ; Agassiz, Contributions , 

 vol. iv, pp. 335, 367, Plate 35, 1362 ; A. Agassiz, Catalogue, p. 214, figs. 351-354 ; 

 this Report, p. 450. Physalia aurijera McCready, op. cit., p. 176, 1859. 



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 5 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. 0. Eaton). East of Saint George's Bank 

 (S. I. Smith). Fort Macon, North Carolina (coll- Dr. Yarrow). 



Yelella MUTICA Lamarck, (p. 455.) 



Syst. des Anim. sans Vert., p. 355, 1801 ; Bosc, Hist. Nat. des Vers., vol. ii, p. 158; 

 Lesson, Voy. de la Coquille, ZooL, vol. ii, pp. 2,52, Plate 6, figs. 1,2; Aca- 

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

 . Medusa velella Linn6, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1098. 



Tropical parts of the Atlanti-c 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) ; Long Is- 

 land Sound (A. Agassiz). 



POLYPI or ANTHOZOA. 



ALCYONARIA. 



Alcyonium 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 ; Yerrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 343, 1866. Ralcyonium 

 carneum A. and E. C. Agassiz, Sea-Side Studies, p. 19, figs. 21-23, 1865. 



Rhode Island to Gulf 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 Fundy, 

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

 rence (Whiteaves). Saint George's Bank (S. 1. Smith). 



Leptogorgia tenuis Yerrill. 



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.) Verrill, 

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



"Bay of Xew 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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