938 General Notes. 
“the bordet Dict onina. 
Euaster, a stellate spicule. with stout pointed conic spi 
- oe from one point. Occurs only in flesh-spicules. 
Gemmule. The winter buds or statoblasts of  fresh-wa 
spo 
mees a star-shaped aio with six generally equal rays 
belonging to the triaxonian gro 
[ypodermalia, Dermalia with aoa radial ray only. i 
Lithistid, as in the group Lithistida, which has the spicules 
tetraxon and often branched 5 
Monaxonia, with one straight or curved axis, rod-shaped, 
sometimes with lamellar outgrow 
Oxyaster, a stellate spicule with long, slender pointed rays t 
ating from one point. Occurs only among flesh-spicules. 
Pinnula, a triaxonian star with five. or six rays, one of which is 
highly developed and branched or covered with disks or sca 
The opposite ray is smooth or absent; the other four ¢ 
(tangential). 
Polyact, without definite axes and with numerous rays. 
Scopule, fork- or broom-shaped spicules consisting of a 1 
shaft traversed by an axial rod, to the distal end of whi 
slender anaxial rods are attached. 
Sigmata, S-shaped irregularly-curved flesh-spicules. 
Spheraster, a ball of spicules radiating from a common cei 
oe a spicule the numerous rays of which arise l 
a stout spiral base. 
ing a spiral spicule without spin 
tylus, a rod-shaped spicule pointed “at one end and roun 
at the other, but not knobbed. 
Tetraxona, with four axes radiating from one point. The 
of the spicules lie in the corners of a square pyramid and 
derivatives, 
Tetractina, a tetraxonian spicule with four rays. : ie 
Triaxonia, spicules with three axes and six rays 
nee ves. 
viactina, a tetraxonian spicule with three rays. 
Uncinata, a rod with recurved hooks throughout its F 
sth. i 
Occurrence of Stizostedium vitreum in the or the es 
Connecticut.—In March, 1887, a small specimen of 
named species was brought to the Museum of Wesleya# 
versity, having been caught in Little River, a tributary 
Connecticut, in the town of Cromwell, Conn. a 
was about eleven and one-half inches in length. ated to 
a So extraordinary that the fact was communi F 
r Goode, of Washington. Subsequently the 
