100 A. S. Packard, Jr., on Insects inhabiting Salt water. 



between the eyes eight conspicuous white lines pass down the 

 sides. Anal orifice with six small lobes and si:) 

 eye-spots, like those of the branchial orifice. 



Color transparent whitish, with flake- white ■ 

 lines ; mantle transparent, with whitish dendri' 

 markings, not spotted, pale yellowish, deeper! 



The larger specimens are 3 inches long and "75 i 

 in diameter, in expansion ; more frequently the 

 height is about 1-50, and the diameter about -35 of an inck 



Eastport, and South Bay, Lubec, from low-water mark among 

 stones, -to 50 fathoms, stony and shelly bottoms, common — 

 Exp. of 1863, '64, '68, '70 ; off Head Harbor, 100 to 120 fath- 

 oms,— Exp. of 1868, '70 ; Grand Menan,— Stimpson, and Exp. 

 of 1870; New Bedford, Mass.,— L. Agassiz. 



This species is allied to C. intestinalis of Europe, and perhaps 

 even more so to C. fasckularis Hancock, from Ireland. 



Ik March 1869, the sw 

 3Ct in the Procccdmjis ot 

 1. Since then 1 hue 



during the past summci lu ' I 1 t ( m it dL[)tli <f 20 

 fathoms at Eastport Mum i Iimi, (In , m i^ 1 m i, undi 

 tinguishablc fiom € oc n, i i*ul ioun J bv mc ni r^eJ 

 abundance at low -water maik ni Sdtm li uboi and al^o a 

 species of marine mite 



With the hope oi awakening an interest among biolo^^i^^^/^ 

 the subject of brine inhabiting msect-, and of iLcenin/ liit^^f 

 collections, esptci dh from the >« dt HU s md ^alt woiU of tH^ 

 country, the following notc^' are publislied 



In the collection 

 the halophilou^ 1 u \ 

 a number of \ m 

 the latter \tv\ i' u 

 and Tipulde, al- > 



