INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 717 



Britain ; Bekring Straits to Gulf of Georgia ; Northern Siberia to 

 Okhotsk Sea and De Oastrie'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, on a bank, in 32 fathoms, (Captain 

 Gedney). Off Saint George's Bank, 430 fathoms, (S. I. Smith). 



Fossil in the Post-Pliocene of Portland, Maine j New Brunswick ; 

 Canada j an d Labrador. 



Arbacia punctulata Gray. (p. 406.) 



Proc. Zool. Soc. of London, 1835, p. 58; A. Agassiz, Revision of the Echini, Parts 

 I and II, pp. 91, 263, Plate 2, fig. 4, Plate 5, figs. 1 to 18, 1872. Echmus punc- 

 tulatus Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., p. 47, 1816. Echinocidaris punctulata Des- 

 moulin, Syn., p. 306, 1837. Eehinoeidaris Davisii A. Agassiz, Bulletin Mus, 

 Comp. Zoology, 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 Souud, 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 (E. Jewett). 



Echinarachnius parma Gray. Plate XXXV, fig. 267. (p. 362.) 



Ann. Phil., p. 6, 1825 ; A. Agassiz, Revision of Echini, Parts I and II, pp. 107, 316, 

 Plates ll d , figs. 4, 5, ll e , 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, it occurs in 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 j and also at New Holland ; India ; Indian Ocean ; Bed 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 Ltitken. 



Bidrag til Kundskab om Echiniderne, p. 107, in Vidensk. Middelelser, 1854 ; Ver- 

 rill, Trans. Connecticut Academy, vol. i, p. 345, 1867. Echinus pentaporus 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 3189, 1788. Encope pentapora 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. Zool. Soc, London, 1851, p. 36 ; 

 Verrill, this Report, pp. 427, 429, (see errata). Mellita testudinata Agassiz, 

 Mon. Scut.; p. 40, Plate 4 a , figs. 7-9, 1841 ; A. Agassiz, Revision of the Echini, 



