414 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [708] 
TUBULIPORA FLABELLARIS Smitt. (p. 405.) 
Op. cit., p. 401, Plate 9, figs.6to 8. Tubipora flabellaris Fabricius, Fauna Greenl,, 
p. 430, 1780 (non Johaston, sp.). Tubulipora phalangea Johuston, Brit. Zoéph., 
ed. ii, p. 273, Plate 46, figs. 1, 2. 
Long Island Sound to Greenland; northern coasts of Kurope to Great 
Britain. Common at Thimble Islands, 1 to 5 fathoms, on alge, hydroids, 
etc.; Watch Hill, Rhode Island; Vineyard Sound; Casco Bay; Bay of 
Fundy, and northward. 
CTENOSTOMATA. 
ALCYONIDIUM RAMOSUM Verrill. Plate XXXIV, fig. 257. (p. 404.) 
American Journal of Science, vol. iii, p. 289, Plate 8, fig. 10, 1872. 
Much branched, when full-grown; the branches round, irregularly 
dichotomus, usually crooked. Surface glabrous, smooth, or nearly so, 
the cells rather small and crowded, their margins not elevated; zodids 
with sixteen slender tentacles. Color ashy brown, or dull rusty brown, 
Diameter of branches, mostly 5™™ to 6.5™™. Height, .250™™ to .375™™, 
Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, to Vineyard Sound; common in Long. 
island Sound, near New Haven, in 1 to 5 fathoms; Thimble Islands ; 
Watch Hill, Rhode Island, ete. 
ALCYONIDIUM HIRSUTUM Johnston. (p. 404.) 
British Zoéph., ed. i, p. 303, Plate 42, figs. 1,2; ed. ii, p. 360, Plate 69, figs. 1, 2; 
Smitt, op. cit., p. 496, Plate 12, figs. 3 to 8. Alcyonium hirsutum Fleming, Brit. 
Anim., p. 517. 
Long Island Sound to the Arctic Ocean; Spitzbergen; northern 
coasts of Europe to Great Britain. Savin Rock, near New Haven, low- 
water; Thimble Islands, in tide-pools, on Fucus, Phyllophora, ete. ; 
Vineyard Sound; and Casco Bay. 
ALCYONIDIUM HISPIDUM Smitt. (p. 404.) 
Op. cit., p. 499, Plate 12, figs. 22 to 27, 1866. Flustra hispida Fabricius, Fauna 
Grenl, p. 438, 1780; Johnston, Brit. Zodph., ed. ii., p. 363, Plate 66, fig. 5. 
Flustrella hispida Gray, Brit. Mus. Catal., part i, p. 108. 
Long Island Sound to Greenland; Finmark to Great Britain. Very 
common at Savin Rock, near New Haven, at low water, encrusting 
stones, Fucus, etc.; Thimble Islands; Watch Hill, Rhode Island ; Vine- 
yard Sound; Casco Bay; Bay of Fundy, etc. 
ALCYONIDIUM PARASITICUM Johnston. (p. 404.) 
British Zodph., ed. i, p. 304, Plate 41, figs. 4,5; ed. ii, p. 362, Plate 68, figs. 4, 5; 
Smitt, op. cit., p. 499, Plate 12, figs. 14-19. Alcyonium parasiticum Fleming, 
Brit. Anim., p. 518. 
Rhode Island to Arctic Ocean; northern coasts of Europe to Great 
Britain. Vineyard Sound, on Phyllophora. 
