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Ophiacantha varispina, Verrill. 



1885. Ann. Rep.-U. S. Fish Commission for 1883 p. 545. 



Off Nova Scotia, 101 to 200 fathoms, Albatross dredgings of 1883 

 (Verrill). 



Ophiacantha granulifeua, Verrill. 



1885. Idem, p. 546. 



Off Nova Scotia, in from 101 to 200 fathoms, Albatross dredgings of 

 1883 (Verrill). 



Ophiolebes acanella, Verrill. 



1885. Idem, p. .548. 



" On Paramuricea horealis, in 113 to 122 fathoms, off Nova Scotia " 

 (Verrill). Dredged by the SS. Albatross in 1883. 



Family Ophioscolicidce. 



Ophioscolex glacialis, MuDer and Troschel. 



Two or three living specimens that have been referred to this species by 

 Professor Verrill, were dredged by the writer in 1873, in 210 fathoms to the 

 S.W. by S. of the island of Anticosti. 



Family Gorgonocephalidce. 

 Gorgonocephalus eucnemis (MuUer and Troschel.) 



Aiterias caput mcdusce, O. Fabricius (1780). 

 Astrophyton eucnemis, Muller and Troschel (1842). 

 Oor(jonoccphcdus cucnerais, Lj'man (1882). 



In his "list of Animals dredged near Caribou Island" in 1860, published 

 in the "Canadian Naturalist and Geologist" for December, 1863, Dr. 

 Packard says that one specimen of this species " was hauled up by a fisher- 

 man twenty miles from land in about 80 fathoms," and that specimens of it 

 are "common and very large in 18 fathoms on the crown of the bank " off 

 Caribou Island. 



