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Family Brisingidce. 

 Odinia Americana, Verrill. 



Brisinga Americana, Verrill (1880). 

 Freyella Americana, Sladen (1889). 

 Odinia Americana, Verrill (1894). 



" Bathymetrical range, 175 to 400 fathoms. Two specimens were taken 

 by the Gloucester fishermen on Banquereau, off Nova Scotia, one at N. lat. 

 44° 12', W. long. 58" 37', clinging to Parayorgia arhorea. Both of our 

 specimens had 20 (detached) arms. It grows to great size" (Verrill, 1895). 



OPHIUROIDEA. 

 OPIIIUR.E. 



Family Ophiolepididoe. 

 Ophioglypha Sarsii (Lutken). 



Ophiolepis ciliata, Stimpson (1853) ; non Retzius, sp. (1805). 

 Ophiura Sarsii, Lutken (1854). 

 Ophioglypha Sarsii, Lyman (1865) . 



Grand Manan. " This species is much larger than " 0. rohusta, " of a 

 bluish-gray colour above and white below." " It is also very different in 

 station, being found only on muddy bottoms and in deep water. I have 

 taken it at a depth of 60 fathoms" (Stimpson). Bay of Fundy, in 150 

 fathoms (Verrill, 1872) ; abundant on the southern coast of New Brunswick 

 in 10 fathoms (Ganong, 1888). The largest and one of the most widely 

 distributed brittle stars of the Gulf and mouth of the River St. Lawrence, 

 in from about 25 to 250 fathoms. It is particularly large and abundant in 

 125 fathoms, six miles from shore, opposite Cap des Rosiers lighthouse, 

 where it was dredged by the writer in 1871. In fresh specimens taken at 

 this locality the upper surface of the disk varied in colour from grayish or 

 ash coloured, to greenish, purplish, or even bright red. Packard found this 

 species at Gateau Bay, Long Island, on the Atlantic coast of Labrador, of 

 large size, in 15 fathoms, on a sandy bottom. Miss Bush says that two 

 specimens were taken in 10 fathoms at Henley Harbour (Chateau Bay, on 

 the north side of the Strait of Belle Isle) by the Stearns expedition in 1882 ; 

 Dr. Bell collected it at Port Burwell, Hudson Strait, in 1884, and it has 

 been found at Greenland. Professor Verrill says that he has seen a few 

 four-armed specimens of it from off Nova Scotia. 



According to Sir J. W. Dawson, it has been found fossil in the Leda clay 

 of St. John, N.B., by Dr. G. F. Matthew. 



