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Animals in Massachusetts. 



but the intention of the Government would be more perfectly answered 

 by substituting the list prepared by the Society for that of Col. Totten, 

 since both could not be inserted. I do not mean thereby to intimate the 

 inferiority of his Catalogue ; but merely that it is notso well adapted to the partic- 

 ular object of the Government because it is not limited to Massachusetts. The 

 new species ascertained by the Society might have been added to Mr. Greene's 

 Catalogue, had there been time after their receipt to have consulted that gentleman 

 and the Society as to certain supposed synonymes, concerning which I did not feel 

 competent to decide. Amos Binney Esq. chairman of the Society's Committee, 

 who forwarded the following list, observes that ' it is far from being complete, 

 particularly in those species destitute of shells, many of which exist in our wa- 

 ters undescribed, or if described, not known to us .' He observes also, that ' in 

 sending this list we do not intend to be understood as guaranteeing the correctness 

 of the species, but simply that the species so named by the authors whose names 

 are attached, are found in the waters of our State.' 



A CATALOGUE OF SPECIES, 



Beginning with the third Order of Lamarck 1 s Class Annelides, and 

 continuing through the 10th, ilth, and 12th Classes. 

 CLASS IX.— ANNELIDES. LAM. 

 ORDER III — SEDENTARIA. 



Pectinaria. 



Belgica, Lam. 

 Terebella. 



conchilega, Lam. 

 Spirorbis. 



nautiloides, Lam. 

 Serpula. 



vermicularis, Lin. 



contortuplicata, Lin. 



echinata, Gmel. 



CLASS X CIRRH1PEDA. LAM. 



ORDER I — SESS1LIA. 



Balanus. 



tintinab ulum ,La m. 

 punctatus, Brug.* 

 miser, Lam. 

 ovularis, Lam. 

 nstulosus, Brug. 

 genie ulatus, Conrad. 



one or more other species. 



ORDER II. — PEDUNCULATA- 

 Anatifa. 



laevis, Lam. 



vitrea, Lam. 



dentata, Brug. 



sulcata, Montague. 

 Cineras. 



vittala, Leach. 

 Otion. 



Cuvieri, Leach. 

 Teredo. 



navalis, Lin. 

 Pholas. 



crispata, Lin. 



