608 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Verrill (1871a, p. 99) thus describes the colors from Eastport speci- 
mens: 
"Branchial orifice — with eight light orange eye-spots; from the 
angles between the eyes, light conspicuous white lines pass down the 
sides. Anal orifice — with six conspicuous eye-spots, like those of 
the branchial orifice. 
"Color transparent whitish, with flake- white lines; mantle trans- 
parent, with whitish dendritic markings, not spotted, pale yellowish, 
deeper above." 
Distribution from Massachusetts Bay northward. Gulf of Saint 
Lawrence; off Nova Scotia (Station 2506, N. lat. 44° 26', W. long. 62° 
10', 127 fathoms, dark brown mud); Grand Manan, N. B.; Eastport, 
Me.; Casco Bay, Me., 8 to 64 fathoms; Isles of Shoals, N. H.; Station 
23 (off Eastern Point, Mass., 35 fathoms, mud and clay nodules). 
Type locality, Grand Manan, N. B. 
Var. ocellata (Agassiz). 
1850. Ascidia ocellata Agassiz, Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., vol. 2, p. 159. 
1870. Ascidia ocellata Binney, Gould's Invertebrata of Massachusetts, ed. 
2, p. 24, pi. 24, fig. 332. 
1870. Ascidia ocellata Dall, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 13, p. 255. 
1870. Ascidia ocellata (part) Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. 49, ser. 2, p. 424. 
1873. Ascidia tenella (part) Verrill and Smith, Rept. on Invertebrate Animals 
of Vineyard Sound, p. 698. 
1880. Ciona ocellata Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 20, p. 251. 
1889. Ciona ocellata MacDonald, Rept. U. S. Comm. Fish and Fisheries for 
1886, p. 858. 
1891. Ascidia ocellata Herdman, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., vol. 23, 
p. 599. 
1896. Ciona intestinalis (part) Castle, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 27, no. 7, 
p. 203. 
1900. Ciona tenella Metcalf, Zool. Jahrblicher, Anat., vol. 13, p. 499. 
1903. Ciona intestinalis (part) Hartmeyer, in Romer and Schaudinn, Fauna 
Arctica, vol. 3, p. 298. 
1909. Ciona intestinalis (part) Hartmeyer, Bronn's Tier-reich, vol. 3, suppl., 
p. 1414. 
Verrill (1880) says of this variety: 
"Occurs in abundance at Newport, both on the rocks and on the 
piles of wharves, at low water, and on dead shells to the depth of 20 
fathoms .... It grows to a length of four or five inches, and about an 
inch in diameter. It is very translucent, allowing the internal organs 
