INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 737 

 Porpitce. 



Physalia pelagica Lamarck, (p. 450.) 



Syst. des Anim. sans Vert., p. 356, 1801 ; Lesson, Acalephes, p. 545, 1843. Phy salts 

 pelagica Osbeck, Itin., p. 284, Plate 12, fig. 1, 1757 (t. Lesson). Holothuria 

 pliysalis Linne", Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1090, 1767. Medusa caravella Miiller, Besch. 

 der Bed. Naturf., vol. ii, p. 190, Plate 9, fig. 2 (t. Lesson) ; Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 

 p. 3139, 1789. Physalia caravella Eschscholtz ; Lesson, Hist. Nat. des Zooph . 

 Acalephes, Plate 11 (explanation). Physalia arethusa Tilesius, in Krusensterna 

 Reise, vol. iii, p. 91, Plate 23, figs. 1-6, 1813 (t. Lesson) ; Agassiz, Contributions , 

 vol. iv, pp. 335, 367, Plate 35, 1862 ; A. Agassiz, Catalogue, p. 214, figs. 351-354 ; 

 this Report, p. 450. Physalia aurigera McCready, op. cit., p. 176, 1859. 



Warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, coming north- 

 ward in the Gulf Stream to the southern coast of New England and 

 Long Island ; and off Saint George's Bank and Nova Scotia. Not un- 

 common, in good condition, in Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's Bay. 

 Watch Hill, Rhode Island (D. C. Eaton). East of Saint George's Bank 

 (S. I. Smith). Fort Macon, North Carolina (coll- Dr. Yarrow). 



Velella mutica Lamarck, (p. 455.) 



Syst. des Anim. sans Vert., p. 355, 1801 ; Bosc, Hist. Nat. des Vers., vol. ii, p. 158; 

 Lesson, Voy. de la Coquille, Zool., vol. ii, pp. 2,52, Plate 6, figs. 1,2; Aca- 

 lephes^ p. 571, Plate 12, figs. 1,2; A. Agassiz, Catalogue, p. 216, figs. 355-357. 

 Medusa velella Linn6, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1098. 

 Tropical parts of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, coining northward 

 in the Gulf Stream as far as Nantucket and off Saint George's Bank. 

 Aspinwall (coll. F. H. Bradley); coasts of Florida (Agassiz); Long Is- 

 land Sound (A. Agassiz). 



POLYPI or ANTHOZOA. 



ALCYONARIA. 



Alcyonium carneum Agassiz. Plate XXXVIII, fig. 283. (p. 497.) 



Proc. American Association for Adv. of Science, 1850, p. 209 ; Verrill, Revision 

 of Polyps of Eastern Coast U. S., in Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i, p. 



4, 1864 ; Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 343, 1866. Ralcyonhun 

 carneum A. and E. C. Agassiz, Sea-Side Studies, p. 19, figs. 21-23, 1865. 



Rhode Island to Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Off Watch Hill, Rhode Island , 

 4 to 5 fathoms; off Catty hunk Island, 10 to 15 fathonts; off Gay Head, 8 

 to 10 fathoms ; common in Massachusetts Bay, Oasco Bay, Bay of Fundy, 

 and coast of Nova Scotia, low- water to 80 fathoms. Gulf of Saint Law- 

 rence (Whiteaves). Saint George's Bank (S. I. Smith). 



Leptogorgia tenuis Yerrill. 



Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i,p. 8,1864. Gorgonia tenuis Verrill, Proc. 

 Boston Soc. N. H., vol. x, p. 339, 1866. Leptogorgia teres (error typ.) Verrill, 

 Amer. Jour. Science, vol. xlviii, p. 420, 1869. 



"Bay of New York." Specimens in the museum of Yale College are 

 supposed to have come from Long Island Sound, but the exact locality 

 is not known. 



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