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which form an irregular dark spot on the inner border of the pale central 
spot. 
Reefs off Watch Hill, Rhode Island, in 4 or 5 fathoms, among rocks 
and alge. 
HARMOTHOE IMBRICATA Malmgren. (p. 321.) 
Nordiska Hafs-Annulater, op. cit., p. 67, 1865, Pl. 9, fig. 8, A-K. Aphrodita imbri- 
cata Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1084, 1767. Aphrodita cirrata Miiller, Prodr- 
Zobl. Dan., No. 2644 (t. Malmgren); Fabricius, Fauna Greenlandica, p. 308, Pl. 
1, fig. 70. Lepidonote cirrata Cirsted, Gron. Ann. Dorsib., 1843, p. 14, Pl. 1, figs. 
1,5, 6,11, 14, 15; Stimpson, Invertebrata of Grand Manan, p. 36, 1853. Polynde 
cirrata Sars, Arch. fiir. Naturg., vol. xi, 1845, p. 11, Pl. 1, figs. 12-21 (embry- 
ology). 
New Haven; Watch Hill, Rhode Island; Vineyard Sound; Massa- 
chusetts Bay; Bay of Fundy and northward to Greenland; Iceland; 
and Spitzbergen. Northern coasts of Europe; Scotland. In the Bay 
of Fundy it is common from above low-water mark to 60 fathoms; in 
Vineyard Sound, from low-water mark to 15 fathoms; 25 fathoms off 
Buzzard’s Bay. 
STHENELAIS PICTA Verrill, sp. nov. (p. 348.) 
(?) Sigation Mathilde Leidy, Marine Invert. Fauna of the Coasts of Rhode Island 
and New Jersey, p. 16, Pl. 11, f. 53, from Journal Philadelphia Acad., series ii, 
vol. iii, 1855 (non Aud. and Edw.) (?) Sthenelais Leidyi Quatr., op. cit., vol. 1, 
p. 278 (no description). 
Body depressed, much elongated, nearly uniform in breadth through- 
out; back convex; ventral surface fiat. The whole dorsal surface is 
closely covered by the imbricated scales, of which there are more than 
150 pairs. These, with the exception of the anterior and posterior pairs, 
are broadly lunate, with a deep emargination in the center of the ante- 
rior edge; the posterior and lateral margins are broadly rounded; the 
outer lateral edge is laciniately fringed; the posterior edge is smooth; 
the whole surface of the anterior scales is covered with minute, slightly 
elevated granules ; farther back, the exposed portion of the surface of 
the seales is smooth, and the microscopic granules are restricted to the 
anterior and inner portions. The scales of the anterior pair are oval, and 
have their entire outer and anterior margins minutely but irregularly 
denticulate. 
The head is small, rounded, contracted behind the posterior eyes and 
in front of the anterior ones; the eyes are near together, in a quadran- 
gle; those in the anterior pair are a little farther apart, and lateral. 
The head is prolonged anteriorly into a narrow elliptical or oval portion, 
which forms the base of the median antennz ; close to and below each 
of the anterior eyes a prominent, membranous, ciliated process arises. 
The feet of the first pair, which are directed forward, are elongated, and 
bear a pair of slender, elongated, dorsal cirri, which are nearly as long 
as the antenne; a much shorter, slender cirrus from the lower lobe, with 
a small, thin, membraneous process below; and a large fascicle of long, 
