INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 519 



As.au illustration of the character and diversity of the haddock's food, 

 I add a list of the species taken from the stomach of a single specimen, 

 from the Boston market, and doubtless caught in Massachusetts Bay, 

 September, 1871. 



Natica clausa. 

 Margarita Groenlandica. 



Leda tenuisulcata. 

 Nucula proxiina. 

 N. tenuis. 

 Crenella elanduia. 



GASTROPODS. 



LAMELLTBRANCHS. 



ECHINODERMS. 



Psolus phantapus. 

 Lophothuria Fabrieii. • 



In addition to these there were fragments of shrimp, probably Panda- 

 lus annulicomis, and numerous Annelids, too much digested for identi- 

 fication. 



Tom-Cod ; Frost-Fish ; [Mierogadus tom-codus.) 



Several specimens from New Haven Harbor, January 30, contained 

 numerous Amphipods, among which were Mcera levis ; Gammarus, sp. ; 

 Ampelisca, sp. ; an undetermined Macrouran; numerous Entoniostiaca; 

 the larva of Chironomus oceanicus. 



A lot taken in a small pond at Wood's Hole, in March, by Mr. Vinal 

 N. Edwards, contained the common shrimp, Crangon vulgaris ; large 

 numbers of the green shrimp, Virbius zostericola ; the prawii^. Palcemo- 

 netes vulgaris ; large quantities of Amphipods, especially of Gammarus 

 annulatus, G. natator^ Calliopius Iceviuscula, and Microdeutopus minax ; 

 and smaller numbers of Gammarus ornatus and G. mucronatus. 



Another lot of twelve, taken in April at the same place, contained 

 most of the above, and in addition several other Amphipods, viz : Mosra 

 levis, Pontogeneia inermis, Ptiloclieirus pinguis, and Caprella ; also Nereis 

 virens, and various small fishes. 



Ocellated Flounder; Summer Flounder; (Chcenopsetta ocellaris.) 

 Several specimens taken in the seines, at Great Egg Harbor, New 

 Jersey, in April, contained large quantities of shrimp, Crangon vulgaris 

 and 3Iysis Americana ; one contained a full-grown Gebia affinis. 



One caught at Wood's Hole, June 6, contained twenty-six specimens 

 of Yoldia limalula; and numerous shells of Nucula proxima, Angulus 

 tener, and Tritia trivittata; and Amphipod Crustacea belonging to the 

 genus Ampelisca. 



