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Pkntacta calcigera, Stimpson. 



Off Port Hood, Cape Breton Island, in 25 fathoms, red mud, two specimens, 

 dredged by the writer in 1873. These specimens were atone time referi'ed to 

 Cucumaria pentactes, but Professor Verrill regards them as unusually large 

 examples of F. calcigera. Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the north shore, at 

 Salmon Bay, near Caribou Island, in 15 fathoms sand, 1860 (Packard). 

 North shore of the Strait of Belle Isle, at Belles Amours, common, in 8 

 fathoms mud ; and Atlantic coast of Labrador, at Cateau Harbour, in 15 

 fathoms, 1864 (Packard). 



PSOLUS PHANTAPUS (L.) " SeA-CUCUMBER." 



Holothuria phantapus, L. (1767). 

 Psolus phantapus, Jaeger (18.S3). 

 Psolus loevigatus, Ayres (1852). 



Grand Manan, " common in 40 fathoms, attached to small stones, and 

 occasionally found at low-water mark. These were all small specimens. The 

 large ones seem to live buried among pebbles ; thus at Eastport, one was 

 dug from a depth of six inches in gravel. This measured three inches in 

 length " (Stimpson). Gulf and mouth of the River St. Lawrence, at many 

 localities, dredged by Sir J. W. Dawson, Dr. R. Bell and the writer. 



LoPHOTHURiA Fabricii (Duben and Koren). " Sea Orange." 



Holothuria squamata, O. Fabricius (1780). 

 C^ivieria Fabricii, Duben and Koren (1844). 

 Psolus Fabricii, Lutken (1857). 

 Lophothuria Fabricii, Verrill (1866). 



Grand Manan. " Small specimens were dredged abundantly among nulli- 

 pores in 5 fathoms, and a number of very large ones were found attached 

 to the under surface of large shelving rocks in the fourth sub-region of the 

 littoral zone. The largest was four inches in length, while its tentacles had 

 a spread of nearly five inches and presented a beautiful area of bright red 

 waving plumes " (Stimpson). Found also at Grand Manan by Ludwig and 

 Verrill. Massachusetts Bay to Greenland (Verrill). Between Pictou Island, 

 N.S., and Cape Bear, P.E.I., Whiteaves (Verrill). Gulf and mouth of the 

 River St. Lawrence ; off Cap des Rosiers lighthouse, in about 9 fathoms, 

 (Whiteaves) ; very abundant at Little Metis (Sir J. W. Dawson) ; and 

 at Esquimaux Bay, near Caribou Island, in 15 fathoms on pebbles, 

 (Packard). Henley Harbour, and Temple Bay, Labrador, in 8 to 10 fathoms, 

 Stearns' expedition (Miss Bush). 



In his Report on the Holothurians of the H.M.S. Challenger, Dr. Theel cites 

 L. squamata (the Cuvieria squamata of Duben and Koren, under the name 



