BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WOODS HOLE AND VICINITY 
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Lepas pectinata — Continued. 
Bigelow records this species locally (Vineyard 
Sound or Buzzards Bay). Vineyard Sound, on 
floating Ascophyllum, and in independent 
clusters, July 1, icioit* (collected by V. N. 
Edwards). 
Lepas anatifera Linnaeus. 
Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 580, 382, etc.; Bige- 
low, 1902, p. 65; M. J. Rathbun, 1905, p. 84; 
Pilsbry, 1907, p. 79. 
Taken in various parts of Vineyard Sound during 
the months of July and August; found upon 
the bottoms of ships, and attached to floating 
planks and sargassum, sometimes in large 
numbers. Specimens in Woods Hole museum, 
dated July 5, 1904!, August 2gf, August 3of, 
and September 5, i9o6f. (All attached to sar- 
gassum . ) 
Bigelow notes that maturation and cleavage 
stages, as well as advanced eggs, were on one 
occasion found in great numbers in the middle 
of August. 
Lepas hilli (Leach). 
M. J. Rathbun, 1905, p. 84; Pilsbry, 1907, p. 80 
(no local records). 
Woods Hole, from German bark. — Rathbun. 
Woods Hole, December 11, 1888*; Vineyard 
Sound, July 1, 1901; enormous cluster*; Gay 
Head, July 23, 1901!; Vineyard Sound, on 
floating wood, July 5, 1904!; Menemsha Bight, 
on gulfweed, August 28, 1906!; New Bedford 
Harbor, on bottom of whaling vessel, August, 
i9o6t; Vineyard Sound, August 29, 1906!- 
Lepas hilli — Continued. 
(Foregoing specimens for the most part col- 
lected by V. N. Edwards.) Abundant during 
the summer of 1909, several large clusters being 
brought in. Found by Mr. Edwards and oth- 
ers, growing upon buoys anchored in local wa- 
ters, though this is not probably a common 
occurrence. 
Lepas anserifera Linnaeus. 
Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 580, 382; M. J. Rath- 
bun, 1905, p. 84; Pilsbry, 1907, p. 80. 
Nobska Beach.— Rathbun. Off Marthas Vine- 
yard. — Pilsbry. 
Conchoderma auritum (Linnaeus). 
Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 580, 390; M. J. Rath- 
bun, 1905, p. 85; Pilsbry, 1907, p. 99. 
Woods Hole, on ship’s bottom. — Rathbun, Pils- 
bry. 
Conchoderma virgatum (Spengler). 
Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 580, 392; M. J. Rath- 
bun, 1905, p. 85; Pilsbry, 1907, p. 99. 
Woods Hole, on ship’s bottom. — Rathbun, Pils- 
bry. Woods Hole, on bottom of Italian bark, 
August, 1887 (perhaps the same specimens as 
referred to in the foregoing record). Off Gay 
Head, on Molar — Pilsbry. New Bedford, sev- 
eral specimens taken from a whaling vessel, 
August, 1906!; also taken in abundance in 
the same harbor by Mr. Gray’s collectors. 
Several specimens of this species are attached 
to the top of the head of a large gar ( Tylosurus 
acus) in the Woods Hole collection. 
Order AMPHIPQDAA 
Family Vibiliid^E. 
Vibilia viatrix Bovallius. 
M. J. Rathbun, 1905, p. 50. 
Off Marthas Vineyard, at the surface (doubt- 
fully determined by Holmes); off Newport. — 
Rathbun. 
Family Hyperiid/TJ. 
Hyperia galba (Montagu). 
Holmes, 1905, p. 464; M. J. Rathbun, 1905, p. 50. 
Woods Plole; commonly found in Aurelia . — 
Holmes. Identified by Dr. Kunkel in nine 
different lots of amphipods, collected by Mr. 
Edwards at Woods Hole in April, May, June, 
and October. Some of these were freely swim- 
ming; others in the medusae Tima formosa and 
Cyanea arctica (?). 
Hyperia medusarum (Muller). 
Verrill, 1875a, p. 38; Holmes, 1905, p. 464 (not 
listed for this region); M. J. Rathbun, 1905, 
p. 50. (Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 567 and 
439, likewise mention an unidentified Hyperia, 
found upon Cyanea). 
Vineyard Sound and northward on Cyanea arctica 
and other jellyfishes. — Verrill. 
Hyperoche ahyssorum (Boeck). 
Holmes, 1905, p. 464 (not listed for local wate r s). 
Specimens thus identified by Dr. Kunkel were 
taken at Woods Hole, in surface tow, April 27 
and May 24, 1906. 
Euthemislo compressa (Goes). 
Holmes, 1905, p. 464; M. J. Rathbun, 1905, p. 51. 
“Off Marthas Vineyard.” — Holmes. The sta- 
tions listed by this writer are , however, beyond 
“Specimens from points designated by an asterisk (*) were identified by Dr. D. J. Cole; those from points designated 
by a dagger (t) by Dr. S. J. Holmes; those from points designated by a double dagger (f) by Dr. B. \V. Kunkel. 
