6 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



the described area have been inchided, and as the Society has very 

 few of those found below 50 fathoms, I have been unable to verify 

 a large number of the species recorded. The list contains 738 

 species and 71 varieties. Those marked with an asterisk are in 

 the collection of the Society and additions to the New England 

 collection are especially desired. 



In the work of preparing this list the writer is indebted to Francis 

 N. Balch, Esq., for the list of Nudibranchs, to Dr. Henry B. Bigelow 

 for many of the records of the Pteropods, to Dr. V. Sterki for assist- 

 ance with the Sphaeridae, and to Messrs. William F. Clapp, Henry 

 W. Winkley, Owen Bryant, Olof O. Nylander, N. W. Lermond, 

 and others for specimens and records of distribution. The various 

 collecting trips made for the Society by Dr. Joseph A. Cushman 

 and the writer have not only added to our knowledge of distribu- 

 tion, but have also greatly enriched the collection. 



