A. JE. Verrill — Marine Nemerfeaiis of Neio England. 443 



have a pair of distinct ocelli. No cephalic slits nor fossae. Mouth 

 small, situated far back from the snout ; and usually Avith slightly 

 prominent lips. 



Color pale yellow, flesh-color, or cream-color, varying to pale 

 salmon and greenish white, often with the anterior region deeper 

 salmon or reddish, or with a median red line ; sometimes the poste- 

 rior part of body is bright salmon ; the head and anterior portions 

 of body often show a whitish or drab median line, due to the pro- 

 boscis ; lower surface paler than the upper. Proboscis very long 

 and slender ; when exerted, covered with slender acute papillae. 



Length 50 to 75""" ; diameter -5 to 1""". 



Long Island Sound to Nova Scotia, at many localities, between 

 tides under stones and in sand. Noank, Conn. ; Newport, R. L ; 

 Wood's Holl, Mass. ; Portland, Me. ; Eastport, Me. ; Halifax, N. S., 

 etc. Also common on the northern coasts of Europe. 



This species often occurs gregariously, many individuals being 

 intricately coiled up together in a mass, often mingled with numer- 

 ous pale young ones, of various sizes. 



Family, Carinellid.e Mcintosh. 



Body elongated, roundish, decreasing backward. Head broader 

 than body, obtuse anteriorly. Mouth small, not far back. Cejshalic 

 shallow fossae and olfactory sacs present. Ocelli often Avanting. 



Carinina Hubrecht, Voy. Challenger, vol. xix, p. 5. 



" Closely allied to Carhiella, from which it dift'ers in the presence 

 of a distinct posterior brain lobe, situated with the rest of the brain 

 and nerve-stems in the integument, outside of the body musculature. 

 A ciliated canal penetrates into this posterior brain lobe." 



Carinina grata Hubrecht, op. cit., pi. i, figs. l-3; plates II, III, IV; pi. vi, figs. 

 1-3; pi. XI, figs. 1, 2. 



This species is known only from two alcoholic specimens, which 

 were very fully studied anatomically. 



Off the East Coast of the U. S. States in 1240 and 1340 fathoms. 



Trans. Conn. Aoad., Vol. VIII. 58 Dec, 1892. 



