64 Smith and Harger — St. George's Banks Dredgings. 



Pennatula aculeata Danieisen. 



Pennatula aculeata Danieisen, Forhandlinger i Vedenskabs-Selskabet i Cliristiania, 



1858, p. 25 (teste Kolliker) ; VerriU, loc. cit., p. 100, 1873. 

 Pennatula phosphorea, var. aculeata, Kolliker, Anatomisch-systematische Beschrei- 



bung der Alcyonarien, 1 Abtheilung, 1 Halfte, p. 134, pi. 9, fig. 73, 1870 (from 



Ahandlungeu d. Senckenberg. Naturf. Gesellschaft. Frankfort, Bd. vii). 

 Pennatula Canadensis Whiteaves, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, IV, vol. 



X, p. 346, November, 1872. 

 Pennatula, near P. phospliorea VerriU, Am. Journal of Science, III, vol. v, p. 5, 1873. 



Localities o and s, 110 and 150 fathoms. Also dredged by Mr. 

 Whiteaves in 200 fathoms in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



Virgularia Lyungmanii Kolliker. 



Op. cit, 2 HaKte, 1 Heft, p. 196, pi. 13, figs. 133, 134, 1871; Verrill, American 

 Journal of Science, III, vol. v, p. 100, 1873 ; "Whiteaves, Report on a Second 

 Deep-sea Dredging Expedition to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, p. 13, 1873. 



This species was described by Kolliker from specimens obtained in 

 30 to 80 fathoms, among the Azores, by the Josephine Expedition 

 sent ont by the Swedish government. It was also dredged in 1872, 

 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, at a depth of 200 fathoms, by Mr. 

 Whiteaves. 



Urtlcina nodosa Verriii. 



Actinia nodosa Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 350, 1780. 



Urticina digitata Verrill, Am. Jour, of Science, III, vol. v, p. 5, 1873 (not of MiiUer?). 



This species has been dredged also in deep water off" Casco Bay 

 (Professor Verrill), and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Mr. Whiteaves). 



Cerianthiis borealis Verrill. 



American Journal of Science, III, vol. v, 1873, p. 5, December, 1872. 

 Plate II, figure 5. 



Body much elongated, tapering gradually to the abactinal opening, 

 the surface smooth but more or less sulcated longitudinally. 

 Marginal tentacles very numerous and unequal, the inner ones 

 longest, in the largest specimens 56'"'" long, and 3™"' in diameter 

 at base, gradually tapering, acute ; the outer ones 25'""' and less 

 in length. Oral tentacles numerous, crowded in several rows, in 

 the largest specimens about 25""" long, slender, acute. Color of 

 body olive-brown or dark chestnut-brown, sometimes pale bluish or 

 purplish just below the tentacles ; disk pale yellowish-brown ; space 

 within the oral tentacles, around the mouth, deep brown, witli lighter 

 radiating lines ; oral tentacles pale chestnut-brown ; marginal ones 

 deep salmon or yellowish-brown, the longest usually barred tr^s- 

 versely with six to eight dark reddish-brown spots, each spot partially 

 divided along the median line into two lateral ones ; part of the tenta- 

 cles often have flake white spots on each side, at the base. 



