INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 719 



Leptasterias oompta Verrill. 



Proc. Boston Soc, vol. x, p. 350, 1866. Asterias compta Stimpson, Proc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. viii, p. 270, 1862 ; Verrill, op. cit., p. 340. 



Off New Jersey, 32 fathoms, (Captain Gedney). Off Martha's Vine- 

 yard, 20 to 25 fathoms, rare ; off Casco Bay, 30 to 50 fathoms. 



Cribrella sang-uinolenta Liitken. (p. 407.) 



Groenl. Echinod., p. 31, 1859 ; Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat Hist., vol. x, p. 345, 

 1866. Asterias sanguinolenta Miiller, Zool. Dan. Prod., 2836, 1776. Asterias 

 oculata Pennant, Brit. Zool., vol. iv, p. 61, Plate 30, fig. 56, 1777. Asterias 

 spongiosa Fabricius, Fauna Groenl., p. 368, 1780. Linkia oculata Forbes, Wern. 

 Mem., vol. viii, p. 120, 1839. Oribella oculata Forbes, British Starfishes, p. 100, 

 (figure), 1841. Echinaster oculatus Miiller and Troschel, Syst. Asterid., p. 24, 1842. 

 Linkia oculata Stimpson, Invert, of Grand Manan, p. 14, 1853. Linkia pertusa 

 Stimpson, op. cit., p. 14. Echinaster sanguinolentus Sars, Fauna Litt. Norveg., i, 

 p. 47, Plate 8, figs. 3-6 ; Oversigt af Norges Echinodermer, p. 84, 1861. 



Connecticut to the Arctic Ocean; northern coasts of Europe to Great 

 Britain and France. Very common in the Bay of Fundy, Casco Bay, 

 and on the entire coast of Maine, from low- water to 100 fathoms ; Massa- 

 chusetts Bay ; Vineyard Sound, 5 to 20 fathoms, not uncommon ; off 

 Watch Hill, Bhode Island, 3 to 5 fathoms ; off New London, Connecti- 

 cut (coll. T. H. Prudden). 



OPHIUROIDEA. 

 Ophitjra olivacea Lyman, (p. 363.) 



111. Catal. Mus. Comp. Zoology, No. 1, Ophiuridse and Astrophy tidse , p. 23, 1865; 

 Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. N. H., vol. x, p. 339. Ophioderma olivaceum Ayres, 

 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. iv, p. 134, 1852. 



Cape Cod to North Carolina. Wood's Hole, Buzzard's Bay, and Vine- 

 yard Sound, not common; shores of Long Island, frequent; Fort 

 Macon, North Carolina, common, (Dr. Yarrow). 



Ophiopholis aouleata Gray. Plate XXXV, fig. 270. (p. 496.) 



List of British Animals in Coll. of Brit. Mus., Part I, Racl. Anim., p. 25, 1848; 

 Liitken Additamenta ad Hist. Ophiuridarum, p. 60, Plate 2, figs. 15,a. b, 16, a, b, 

 1858 ; Verrill, op. cit., p. 344, 1866. Asterias aouleata Linne (pars), Syst. Nat., 

 p. 1101 ; Retzius Vetersk.-Akad., vol. iv, p. 240, 1783 ; Miiller, Prod., 2841, 1776 ; 

 Zool. Dan., vol. iii, p. 29, Plate 99, 1789. Ophiura bellis Fleming, Brit. Anim., p. 

 488, 1828. Ophiocoma bellis Forbes, Vfern. Mem., vol. viii, p. 226 ; Brit. Star- 

 fishes, p. 53, figure. Ophiopholis oellis Lyman, op. cit., p. 96, Plate 1, figs. 4-6. 

 Ophiolepis scolopendriea Miiller and Troschel, Syst. Aster., p. 96, 1842. Ophioph- 

 olis scolopendrica Stimpson, Invert, of Grand Manan, p. 13, 1853. 



Ehode Island and New Jersey to the Arctic Ocean ; Iceland ; Spitz- 

 bergen ; northern coasts of Europe, to the English Channel, Ireland, 

 etc. Very abundant in the Bay of Fundy, Casco Bay, and along the 

 whole coast of Maine, from low-water to 100 fathoms ; Massachusetts 

 Bay ; off Gay Head, 6 to 8 fathoms, rare ; off Watch Hill, Ehode Island, 

 in 4 to 5 fathoms, rocky. Off New Jersey, 30 to 38 fathoms, N. lat. 39° 

 54' ; W. long. 73° 15', (Josephine Exp., t. Ljungmann). A similar species, 

 perhaps identical, occurs on the northwestern coasts of America. 



