740 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Dot aware that tliis species has been found south of Cape Cod, but it 

 will probably be found hereafter, since the Cyanea is common. 



Epizoanthus A^iiERiOANUS Yerrill. Plate XXXVIII, figs. 285, 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 AmericanusYeTTill, op. cit., p. 45; Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. X, p. 335, 1863. Gemmaria Americana Verrill, American Naturalist, vol. ii, 

 p. 9, fig. 42. 



Off New Jersej^ to Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in deep water. Off Block 

 Island, 29 fathoms, on shells occupied by Uujp a gurus ; off Grand Manau, 

 in 40 to 50 fathoms, on shells covering Mqmgurus, 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. 730, 32 fathoms, on shells inhabited by Uur>agurus imhescenSj 

 (coll. Captain Gedney). 



MADREPORARIA. 



ASTRANGIA Dan^ Agassiz. (p. 408.) 



Proc. American Assoc, vol. ii, p. 6S, 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, 18G5 ; Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 335, 1866 ; 

 Dana, Corals and Coral Islands, p. 68, figures, 1372. Astrangia astrwiformis 

 Edw. and Haime, Ann. des. Sci. Nat., vol. xii, p. 181, 1850 ; 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, 1364. 



North Florida and west Florida to Oape Cod. Common in Long 

 Island Sound, near New Haven, at Savin Eock, off Thimble Islands, 

 etc., 1 to 6 fathoms, rocks j Watch Hill, Ehode Island, 4 to 5 fathoms ; 

 Yineyard Sound and Buzzard's Bay, 2 to 15 fathoms ; FortMacon, North 

 Carolina (coll. Dr. Yarrow). Charleston, South Carolina (Agassiz). 

 West Florida (E. Jewett). 



PKOTOZOA. 



PORIFERA or SPONGLE. 



CALCAREA. 



Grantia ciliata Fleming, (p. 330.) 



British Aniin., p, 325; Johnston, Brit. Spony^os and Litliopliytos, p. 176, Plate 

 20, figs. 4, 5, Plate 21, figs. 6, 7, 1842 ; Bowerbank, Monog. Britisli Spongiadio, 

 vol. i, Plate 26, figs. 34.5, 346"; vol. ii, p. 10, 1866. Spomjia ciliata Fabricius, 

 Fauna Gru'nlandica, p. 448, 1780. Sycandra ciliata lI;vcko], Die Kalkschwiinnne, 



