[739] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 445 
EDWARDSIA FARINACEA Verrill. (p. 510.) 
American Journal of Svience, vol. xlii, p. 11>. 1536. 
Off Gay Head, 19 fathoms; Casco Bay, 10 to 70 fathoms; Bay of 
Fundy. 8 to 90 fathoms. 
EDWARDSIA LINEATA Verrill, sp.nov. {p. £97.) 
Body cylindrical, elongated, covered over the base and sides with a 
dirty. brownish. slightly rough and wrinkled epidermis. except anteriorly, 
below the tentacles. where it is smooth. translucent, and usually with 
eight impressed, longitudinal, flake-white lines. showing through. Tenta- 
cles, 24 to 30, or more, in the larger specimens. slender, tapering, obtuse, 
white or pale flesh-color, each with a flake-white, longitudinal line along 
the inner side. Disk. with a white circle around the month. and often 
with S.or more, radiating, white lines. extending to the base of the 
inner tentacles: border of the mouth sometimes pale-red; naked part 
of column pale flesh-color, often with a circle of white below the bases 
of the tentacles. and usually with eight oblong or fusiform flake-white 
spots between the longitudinal impressed lines. 
Length, 25"™ to 35™™: diameter. 2.5-~ to 3™™. A very young speci- 
men had 15 slender, equal. long tentacles. each with a median longi- 
tudinal line of white on the inside: disk with 6 radiating lines of 
white; naked part of the column with 6 impressed white lines, and 
with 6 oblong, flake-white spets between them. Breadth across the 
expanded tentacles. 37”. 
This species is remarkable for not having. in any of the specimens 
found, a naked basal area, nor any true disk for attachment, thus differ- 
ing both from Phellia and the other species of Hdicardsia. This may be 
due to its peculiar habit of nestling in the erevices and interstices 
between rocks. ascidians. worm-tubes. ete. 
Off Watch Hill, Rhode Island. £ to 5 fathoms. in cavities in and 
beneath Asfrangia, ete.: Vineyard Sound and off Gay Head, 6 to 12 
fathoms. amon ascidians, annelid-tubes. etc.. abundant. 
Arachnractis brachiolata A. Agassiz. (p. £51.) 
Proc. Boston Sc. Nat. Hist., vel. ix, p. 159, 1262: Boston Journal of Nat. Hist.. 
vol. vii, p. 525.1220: Verrill, Memoirs Boston Soc. N. H., p. 33; Proceedings, 
vol. x, p. 343. 
Mr. A. Agassiz has recently ascertained that this is only a larval form 
of some species of Edirardsia. As it had already developed 16 tenta- 
cles. it must belong to one of the species having numerous tentacles 
when adult. 
Peachia parasitica Verrill. 
Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. vol. x. p. 352. 1295: Bicidium parasiticum Agassiz, 
Proe. Boston &. N.H., vol. vii, p. 24, 1259: Verrill, Revision of Polyps.in Me- 
moirs Boston $.'N. H., vol. i, p. 31, Plate 1. Bes. 14, 15, 1564: A. and Mrs. E. C. 
Agassiz, Sea-Side Studies. p. 15, fig. 14. 1265. 
Cape Cod to Bay of Fandy, on Cyanea arctica: Eastport, Maine, buried 
in gravel at low-water mark (two specimens. of very large size). lam 
