354 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vor. XXXIV. . 
shoal and is no longer a good collecting place. Some equally 
good spots may in time be located. 
The tunicates, too, are badly in need of systematic work. 
A large ascidian, Styela s^. (doubtless the Cynthia vittata of 
Stimpson's list), two to three inches high, is extremely abun- 
dant on the sand shoals and wharf piles. Another large and 
translucent form, Ascidia s., is fairly abundant on wharf piles 
and old shells, breeding in May and June. Molgula manhat- 
tensis, Perophora viridis (breeding in June and July), Amarce- 
cium sf. are common species. Appendicularia sf. is a common 
form in the tow throughout summer — Professor George Le- 
fevre has found it breeding from April to August. Doliolum 
sp. is occasionally taken in the harbor through the summer — 
both the nurse with stolon and buds, and the sexual form with 
ripe eggs. 
The variety of fishes that may be taken in a short time in 
Beaufort harbor and adjoining waters is so great as to make it 
evident that the number recorded (Jenkins, /oc. cit., gives 134) 
for the region will be greatly increased when systematic col- 
lecting has been carried on for a few years. Some nine miles 
from Beaufort inlet the coast line makes a sharp, right-angled 
bend, with Cape Lookout at the angle. From the end of the 
cape a narrow line of shoals extends much farther out. The 
cape and its submerged continuation form a wall, as it were, 
reaching seaward for fifteen miles. Cape Lookout itself is so . 
shaped as to embrace a bay, a quiet and beautiful sheet of 
water, Lookout Bight. The coast configuration thus forms a 
remarkable natural trap into which fish, migrating northwards, 
fall. It is doubtful whether a better place can be found any- 
where on our coast for the carrying out of observations on 
oceanic species and on bay and river species during the oceanic 
period of their life. The seining that has been carried on at 
Cape Lookout has been extremely interesting and successful, 
both as regards the variety of forms and the number of indi- 
viduals taken. 
The following species may be mentioned from the harbor 
and adjacent waters: Amphioxus is found, but is not common 
— the pelagic larva are taken in the tow (July). The com- 
