152 ' xAni.'Ai- iiisroiiv of akctic amkkica. 



lo!ig;er rays, witli three to live shorter leinodiieed r;i\ s on one sich'. 'Jlic 

 rays are loiUKh-d, and iinilornily eovered wiili small clustered spimiles, 

 arranged in divei^^ciit j;rou]»s <»ii eaeli jdate. TIk; ])latos are reg-ularly 

 arranged, both transversely and longitudinally, and more closely united 

 ihau in Asterias and Tje2>tasterias. The i)lates of the M-ntral lows are 

 directly united with tl^e adambulacral, so as to leave no sjjaees between 

 for the jjapuhe, which are, therefore, absent along the \ entral surface next 

 the adambulacral plates ; on the dorsal surface they are usually arranged 

 in pairs. The major i)edicellariaB are arranged along the edges of tlie 

 ambulacral grooves, and a few usually occur in tlie adoral angles, l»el ween 

 the bases of the rays. 



Ophioglypha nodosa Lyman. 



Ophiura vodum LCtkkx, Adclit. ad Hist. Opliininlarinn, i>. 43, pi. ii, lig. 'J, a-b, 

 1858. 

 Lot 240. Annanactook Harbor, low-water, October 7, 1S77. "Color 



crimson." 



nYDROIDA. 



Seriularia argentea Ellis .lud Sol. 



Gravel beach, head of Ciunberland Gulf, low-water, :\Iay 28, 1878. 



Halecium tenellum Iliiaks. 



Gravel beach, head of Cumberland Gulf, low-water, lot G42, May 28, 



1878. 



Obelia, sp. 



With last. x\1ko from Penny Ilarbor, low-water, October 4, 1877, 

 attached to Acidiopnis complanaia. 



ANTllUZOA. 



Urticiua crassiccrais Ehiubcrg, 18J4. 



Aviin'iu tTM»»it'or»ii8 MCllkr, Prodromus, 17T(). 



Tmlin cramt'icorvh GossK. Ann. Nat. Hist. ; Actinologia IJrit., p. 209, pi. iv, fig. 1. 

 inindactiiihi l)nr'i»ii Ac— Vi:i;i:u.L. Kevision riilyjis, iu Mem. Hoston Soc. Nat. 

 llisr. vol. i, ]). l-i. (aulhiir's cnpifs, l.^()4). 



Head of ("und)erland Gidf, low-water, lot 0(J7, on roots of Lami- 



naria. Annanactook Ilarbor, ]May 19, 1878. 



Bunodes spectabilis Vcnill. 



Actinia spcctabHiM Fabricius, Fauna Griinlandita, p. :?42, 1780. 

 linnodm stdla Vkkum.l, Kcvi.sion of Polyps Eastern Coast ..f W S., in Mem. Bos- 

 ton Soc. Nat. Hist, i, i>. 1(>, pi. i. figs. 1-8, 1864. 

 A more cxtensivti aciiuaintance with this specie's, and a careful com- 

 parison with the description of Fabricius had, sonu' time ago, caused mo 

 TO unite niv />'. Ktclhi with the Gn'<'idandic sp«'»'ies (see Check-li.st of 



