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Family Paractidce. 

 Stomphia carneola (Stimpson), 



Actinia carneola, Stimpson (1853). 

 Rhodactinia Daviesii, Verrill (18G4). 

 Stomphia carneola, Verrill (1899). 



Grand Manan, "dredged in 35 fathoms on the Hake Ground. The 

 specimens were attached to dead valves of Pecten, and sometimes to the 

 test of Ascidia callosa, or to small pebbles 'VStimpson) ; Bay of Fundy 

 (Verrill) ; Gaspe Bay (Sir J. W. Dawson). " Large specimens dredged at 

 Caribou Island, in 8 fathoms, gravelly bottom, and at Square Island " 

 (Labrador) "in from 15 to 30 fathoms, on a shelly bottom, had three rows of 

 thick, short, blunt tentacles, each with three red circular bands, the outside 

 of the polyp being entirely smooth, with slashes of deep red on a corneous 

 ground. Small specimens were wholly red " (Packard). 



AcTlNOSTOLA CALLOSA, Verrill. 



Urticina callosa, Verrill (1882). 

 Actinostola callosa, Verrill (1883). 



Dredged by the U. S. Fish Commission o£F Nova Scotia in 1877. "It 

 has also been taken on George's Bank and the various fishing banks off 

 Nova Scotia, in 45 to 300 fathoms, by the Gloucester fishermen, in consider- 

 able numbers " (Verrill, 1883). 



AcTiNERNUS NOBiLis, Verrill. 



1879. Amer. Journ. Sc. and Arts, Third Series, vol. xvii., p. 474. 



" Off Sable Island, N.S., 200-250 fathoms, Aug., — and Banquereau, 

 about 200 fathoms, Sept. 9, 1878, — Capt, J. W. Collins, schooner Marion" 

 (Verrill, 1879). "Common off Nova Scotia in 200 to 300 fathoms" (Verrill, 

 1885). 



Synanthus mirabilis, Verrill. 



1879. Op. cit. supra., p. 474. 



Found, with the preceding species, by Captain Collins, off Sable Island, 

 in 200-250 fathoms, and on Banquereau, N.S., in about 200 fathoms ; and 

 since dredged by the SS. Albatross, in 1883, off Nova Scotia, in 150 to 330 

 fathoms ( Verrill). 



