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 Balticina FiNMARcniCA (Sars). 



Virgularia Finmarchica, M. Sars (1856). 

 Balticina Finmarchica, Gray ; and Verrill (1878). 



" Between Sable Island and Banquereau, N.S., taken on a trawl line, with 

 Pennatula horealis" (Verrill, 1878). " Since received from the Gloucester 

 fishermen from the outer slopes of the Grand Bank and from all the banks 

 ofi the Nova Scotia coast in 60 to 100 fathoms" (Verrill, 1882). 



Family Pennatulidm. 

 Pennatula aculeata, Danielssen. 



Pennatula aculeata, Danielpsen (1858). 

 Pennatula phosphorca, var. aculeata, Sars (1870). 

 Pennatula Canadenst.% Whiteaves (1872). 



Dredged by the SS. Speedwell of the U.S. Fish Commission, in 

 1877, about thirty miles south from Halifax, N.S., in 100 fathoms, fine, 

 compact sandy mud (Verrill). " Grand Bank, St. Peter's Bank, Banquereau, 

 Western Bank, and other banks off Nova Scotia, in 60 to 300 fathoms " 

 (Verrill, 1882). 



The same species had previously been dredged by the writer in 1871, 

 1872 and 1873, in abundance, living in the deep sea mud (from 160 to 200 

 fathoms) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence about half way between the Island of 

 Anticosti and the Gaspe peninsula. By far the larger number of examples 

 obtained in 1872 were cut in two transversely, at about the midlength, by 

 the scraper of the dredge, so that only the upper and polypiferous halves of 

 the specimens were found in the bag. This strengthens the idea that these 

 sea-pens live with the naked portion of the stem buried in the deep sea mud. 

 "When living they are of a beautiful dark red or carmine colour. 



Pennatula (Ptilella) borealis (Sars). 



Pennatula grandis, Ehrenberg (18^2) ; non Pallas. 

 Pennatula borealis. M. Sars (185G) ; and Verrill (1878). 

 Ptilella borealis, Gray ; and Verrill (1879). 

 Pennatida (Ptilella) borealis, Verrill (1882). 



" A fine large specimen of this species, taken on a trawl line between 

 Sable Island and Banquereau, N.S., was presented to the U.S. Fish 

 Commission by Captain J. W. Collins, of the schooner Marion (A^errill, 

 1878). Several additional specimens of this species have been received from 

 off Nova Scotia (Verrill, 1879). Taken by the Gloucester fishermen "in 

 120 to 350 fathoms, on the outer slopes of the Grand Bank, St. Peter's 

 Bank, Western Bank, Banquereau, Sable Island Bank, Le Have Bank and 

 George's Bank, and presented to the U.S. Fish Commission" (Verrill, 1882). 



