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TlTBULIPORA FLABELLARIS Smitt. (p. 405.) 



Op. cit., p. 401, Plate 9, figs. 6 to 8. Tubipora fldbellaris Fabricius, Fauua GrcenL, 

 p. 430, 1780 (non Johnston, sp.). TubuUpora phalangea Johnston, Brit. Zooph., 

 ed. ii, p. 273, Plate 46, figs. 1, 2. 



Long Island Sound to Greenland ; northern coasts of Europe to Great 

 Britain. Coininon at Thimble Islands, 1 to 5 fathoms, on algae, hydroids, 

 etc.; Watch Hill, Ehode 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; zooids 

 with sixteen slender tentacles. Color ashy brown, or dull rusty brown. 



Diameter of branches, mostly 5 mm to 6.5 mm . Height, .250 mm to .375 mm . 



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, Bhode Island, etc. 



Alcyonidium hirsutum Johnston, (p. 404.) 



British Zooph., 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. Alcxjonwm hirsutum Fleming, Brit. 

 .Anim., p. 517. 



Long Island Sound to the Arctic Ocean ; Spitzbergen ; northern 

 coas.ts of Europe to Great Britain. Savin Bock, near New Haven, low- 

 water; Thimble Islands, in tide-pools, on Fucus, Pliyllophora, etc. ; 

 Vineyard Sound ; and Casco Bay. 



Alcyonidium hispidum Smitt. (p. 404.) 



Op. cit., p. 499, Plate 12, figs. 22 to 27, 1866. Flustra hispida Fahricius, Fauna 

 Grcenl., p. 438, 1780 ; Johnston, Brit. Zooph., ed. ii., p. 363, Plate 66, fig. 5. 

 Flustrella hispida Gray, Brit. Mus. Catal., part i, p. 108. 



Long Island Sound to Greenland ; Fimnark to Great Britain. Very 

 common at Savin Bock, near New Haven, at low» water, encrusting 

 atones, Fucus, etc. ; Thimble Islands ; Watch Hill, Rhode Island ; Vine- 

 yard Sound; Casco Bay; Bay of Fundy, etc. 



Alcyonidium parasiticum Johnston, (p. 404.) 



British Zooph., 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. 



Bhode Island to Arctic Ocean ; northern coasts of Europe to Great 

 Britain. Vineyard Sound, on Phyllopliora. 



