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EDWARDSIIDEA. 



Family Edivardsiada. 

 Edwardsia sipunculoides, Stimpson. 



Actinia sipunculoides, Stimpson (1853). 



Edwardsia sipunculoides (Stimpsun M. S. ) ; Verrill(1864). 



Grand3Ianan, " at low-water mark, adhering by its very small base to a 

 large stone; only one specimen " (Stimpson). S.S.W. of the east point of 

 Prince Edward Island; one specimen, dredged by the writer in 1873, and 

 since determined by Professor Verriil. Henley Harbour, Strait of Belle 

 Isle, in'^4 fathoms (Packard). 



Edwardsia farinacea, Verriil. 



186y. Amer. Journ. Sc. and Arts, Second Series, vol, xlviii., p. 118. 

 " Bay of Fundy, 8 to 90 fathoms " (Verriil). 



ACTINIIDEA. 



Malactiniaj, 



Family Ilyanthidoe. 



Peachia parasitica, Verriil. 



1866. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x., p. 3.38. 

 " Cape Cod to Bay of Fundy, on Cyanea arctica " (Verriil). 



Family Actinidce. 

 Metridium dianthus (Ellis). 



Actinia dianthus, Ellis (1767) ; and Johnstoa (1847). 

 Actinia plumosa, Miiller (1776). 

 Metridium dianthus, Oken (181.5). 

 Actinia marginata, Lesueur (1817). 

 Metridium riuirginatum, Milne Edwards (1857). 

 Actinia dianthus, Stimpson (1853) ; and Dawson (1858). 

 Actinoloha dianthus, Gosse (1860). 

 Metridium dianthus, Verriil (1883). 



Professor Verriil, who calls this species the " Fringed Actinia," says that 

 it is the " most abundant species along the whole coast of New England and 

 the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia." It is also by far the 

 commonest species of sea anemone in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and according 

 to Packard, it occurs as far to the northward as Square Island, on the 



