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SYRTENSIAN FAUNA. 



The following species have been obtained from St. George's Bank 

 and other deep-water banks off the coast of New England, that I 

 regard as belonging to this fauna. Doubtless most of the Arctic species 

 included in the previous fauna, will also be found with these, when 

 the localities are more explored. 



Polypi. 



Rhodactinia (Tealla) Davii5ii Ag. 



I have obtained a single large specimen from a bank several miles 

 east of Grand Menan in about forty fathoms. 



Metridium marginatum E. and H. ( ? ) 



Dr. Stimpson mentions a specimen, probably of this species, under 

 ^^ Actinia dkinthus .^"from the ''Gravelly-bottom," a bank east of Grand 

 Menan, probably near the same locality as the last. 



Paragorgia arborea Edw. and H. 



From the mouth of the Bay of Fundy in deep water, with the 

 next. 



Primnoa Reseda Yerrill. 



Primnoa lepadifera Lamx. 



St. George's Bank (Essex Inst.) ; Mouth of Bay of Fundy (Port- 

 land N. H. Soc.) ; Mouth of Bay of Fundy, thirty miles southeast 

 from Mt. Desert, Me. (Museum of this Society.) 



Alcyonium rubiforme Dana, and also, apparently, another 

 * species have been found at the Banks of Newfoundland, both of 

 which are likely to occur at St. George's Bank. 



ECHINODERMATA. 



Ophiacantha spinulosa Mull, and Tr. 



Bay of Fundy, off Grand Menan, sparingly in the Coralline Zone, 

 Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



Ranges northward to Greenland and Spitzbergen, and to the north- 

 west coast of Norway. 



Pteraster militaris Miill. and Tr. 



Off Grand Menan in thirty-five fathoms, shelly bottom. Dr. Wm. 

 Stimpson. This locality belongs, perhaps, properly to the Syrtensian 

 Fauna, like that of the next species. 



