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mission, off the northern coast of the United States, in 90G to 1,467 

 fathoms (Verrill), but not yet taken in the area embraced within the limits 

 of this paper). 



Desmophyllum nobile, Verrill. 



1884. Amer. Journ. Sc. and Arts, Third Series, vol. xxviit., p. 1.50. 



" The only specimen known was taken July 15, 1884, on the Stone Fence, 

 on Banquereau, N.S., in about 300 fathoms, by Michael Campbell, of 

 Gloucester, Mass." (Verrill). 



Family Oculinidce. 



LoPHOHELiA OCULIFERA, Edwards and Haime. 



" A fragment of a large, dead but nearly fresh specimen of this coral, 

 taken about thirty-nine miles S.S.W. from the N.W. Light of Sable Island, 

 was presented " to the U. S. Fish Commission " by Dennis Thelnemy, 

 schooner Wm. Thompson" (Verrill, 1878). "Two specimens have been 

 obtained by the Gloucester fishermen in deep water off the coast of Nova 

 Scotia, and by them presented to the U. S. Fish Commission " (Verrill, 

 1883). 



CTENOPHORA. 



CYDIPPIDEA. 



Family Mei'tensidcti. 

 Mertensia ovum (Fabricius). 



Beroe ovum, O. Fabricius (1780). 



Mertensia cucullus, L. Agassiz (1860). 



Mertensia ovum, Morch (1857) ; and Packard (1867). 



" This species was extremely abundant from the Strait of Belle Isle, 

 where there was floating ice on the last of June" (1864) "to as far north 

 as Hopedale," Labrador, in lat. 55° 30'. "It was not commonly met with 

 in waters from which the ice had disappeared " (Packard). 



Family Pleurohrachiidce. 

 Pleurobrachia rhododactyla, L. Agassiz. 



Beroe pileus, O. Fabricius (1780) ; non Mliller, teste L. Agassiz. 

 Pleurobrachia rhododactyla, L. Agassiz (1850). 



Grand Manan (Stimpson) ; " very abundant in Casco Bay, Bay of Fundy, 

 and Gulf of St. Lawrence" (Verrill, 1873). " Vei^y abundant about East 

 Point, Anticosti, in July, 1861 " (Verrill); "observed but rarely at Little 

 Mecattina Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence " (Packard). 



