[717] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 423 
Britain; Behring Straits to Gulf of Georgia; Northern Siberia to 
Okhotsk Sea and De Castrie’s Bay. Very abundant in the Bay of Fundy, 
from low-water to 109 fathoms ; Casco Bay; Massachusetts Bay; mouth 
of Vineyard Sound and off Gay Head, 10 to 20 fathoms, common; off 
Holmes’s Hole; off Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 4 to 5 fathoms, not un- 
common ; off New London, Connecticut, plenty, (coll. Prudden) ; Faulk- 
ner’s Island, Thimble Islands, and near New Haven, 4 to 8 fathoms, un- 
common and small. Off New Jersey, ona bank, in 32 fathoms, (Captain 
Gedney). Off Saint George’s Bank, 430 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). 
Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Portland, Maine; New Brunswick 3 
Canada; and Labrador. 
ARBACIA PUNCTULATA Gray. (p. 406.) 
Proc. Zoél. Soc. of London, 1835, p. 58; A. Agassiz, Revision of the Echini, Parts 
Tand II, pp. 91, 263, Plate 2, fig. 4, Plate 5, figs. 1 to 18, 1872. ZEchinus punc- 
tulatus Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., p. 47,1816. Echinocidaris punctulata Des- 
moulin, Syn., p. 306, 1837. chinocidaris Davisii A. Agassiz, Bulletin Mus, 
Comp. Zodlogy, vol. i, p. 20, 1863; Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, 
p- 340, 1866. ‘ 
Vineyard Sound to the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico. Common at 
Wood’s Hole, and in Vineyard Sound and Buzzard’s Bay, 1 to 12 fathoms; 
off Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 4 to 5 fathoms; Long Island Sound, near 
New Haven, and at Charles Island, not common; Fort Macon, North 
‘Carolina (coll. Dr. Yarrow). Off Tortugas, 13 to 125 fathoms, (Pour- 
tales). West Florida (KE. Jewett). 
ECHINARACHNIUS PARMA Gray. Plate XXXYV, fig. 267. (p. 362.) 
Ann. Phil., p. 6, 1825; A. Agassiz, Revision of Echini, Parts I and II, pp. 107, 316, 
Plates 114, figs. 4,5, 11°, figs. 4, 5, 12, figs, 1-13, 1872. Scutella parma Lamarck, 
Anim. sans vert., p. 11, 1816. 
New Jersey to Labrador. According to Mr. A. Agassiz, itoccursin the 
North Pacific, on the west coast of America, from the Aleutian Islands 
to Vancouver Island, and on the coast of Asia at Kamtchatka, 30 to 70 
fathoms; and also at New Holland; India; Indian Ocean; Red Sea, 
etc. Common along the entire coast of New England and Long Island, 
from low-water to 100 fathoms, sand. Off New Jersey, on a distant 
bank, in 32 fathoms, (Captain Gedney). Very abundant at Saint 
George’s Bank and vicinity, 15 to 430 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). 
MELLITA PENTAPORA Liitken. 
Bidrag til Kundskab om Echiniderne, p. 107, in Vidensk. Middelelser, 1864; Ver- 
rill, Trans. Connecticut Academy, vol. i, p. 345, 1867. Zchinus pentaporus 
Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 3189, 1788. Encope pertapora Agassiz, Monog. Scut., 
Plate 3, 1841. Scutella quinquefora Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., p. 9,1816. Mel- 
lita quinquefora Agassiz, Mon. Scut., p. 36, 1841; Catal. Rais., in Ann. Sci., vol. 
vii, p. 138, 1847. Mellita testudinaria Gray, Proc. Zéol. Soc., London, 1851, p. 36 ; 
Verrill, this Report, pp. 427, 429, (see errata). AMellita testudinata Agassiz, 
Mon. Scut., p. 40, Plate 4, figs. 7-9, 1841; A. Agassiz, Revision of the Echini, 
