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Strait of Belle Isle (at Chateau Bay, in 30 fathoms on a sandy bottom) by 

 Packard. 



Halecilm muricaium (Ellis and Solander). 



Fifteen miles S.S.E. of Bonaventure Island, in 50 fathoms, stony and 

 rocky bottom, dredged by the writer in 1872. Off Caribou Island, P.Q., on 

 a fishing bank in from 30 to 50 fathoms ; and Square Island, Labrador, in 

 30 fathoms (Packard). 



Halecium sessile, Norman. 



Between East Cape, Anticosti and the Bird Rocks, in 212 fathoms; two 

 specimens, dredged by the writer in 1871 and since determined by Professor 

 Verrill. 



Family Sertulariad(e. 



Sertularia abietina, L. 



H. M. S. Challenger, Station 48 (May 8, 1873) off Nova Scotia, in 51 

 fathoms, rock (AUman). " Mingan Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and 

 Labrador. 'Anticosti Expedition'", Verrill (Packard). Apparently abun- 

 dant also in Sir J. W. Dawson's and the writer's dredgings in the Gulf and 

 mouth of the River St. Lawrence. 



Sertularia filicula, Ellis and Solander. 



Grand Manan, dredged in 20 fathoms, on shelly bottoms (Stimpson). 

 Labrador (Packard). 



Sertularia pumila, L. 



Nova Scotia (on sunken logs) and Metis (Sir J. \V. Dawson) ; Strait of 

 Belle Isle, between tides, abundant (Packard). 



Sertularia polyzoxias, L., and var. gigantea, Hincks. 



Grand Manan, in from 10 to 40 fathoms (Stimpson) ; Le Have Bank, N.S., 

 in 45 and 60 fathoms, the var. gigantea, U. S. Fish Commission, 1872 (Smith 

 and Harger). Dredged at many localities in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, by 

 the writer. " Between tides at Caribou Island, and in deeper water, where 

 it grows very stout and large" (Packard). 



Sertularia rugosa, L. 



Grand Manan, common in deep water (Stimpson). Common in the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence. " Rarely met with in 30 fathoms at Square Island," 

 Labrador (Packard). 



