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 GORGONOCEPHALUS Agassizii (Stimpson). 



Euryale scntatum, Gould (1841) ; not of deBlainville. 

 Astrophi/ton scutatum, Stimpson (1853). 

 GorgonocephMlus Agassizii, Lyman (1882). 



Grand Manan, not uncommon. " It is found in the coralline zone, 

 especially among forests of Boltenim " (Stimpson). Bay of Fundy, very 

 common, low- water to 100 fathoms (Verrill) ; Friar's Cove and Blacks 

 Harbour, Charlotte Co., N.B. (Ganong). Brought up occasionally on fisher- 

 mens' lines at many localities in the Gulf and mouth of the River St. 

 Lawrence, where it has also been dredged or otherwise collected by Dr. R. 

 Bell, the writer and others. 



GoRGONOCEPHALUS Lamarckii (Muller and Troschel). 



Astrophijton Lamarckii, Muller and Troschel (1842). 

 Gorgonocephalus Lamarckii, Lyman (1882). 



" Common off Nova Scotia on Alcyonaria." Dredged by the SS. Albatross, 

 of the U. S. Fish Commission, in 194 fathoms in 1882, and in 239 fathoms 

 in 1883 (Verrill). 



Family Astronycidce. 



AsTRONYX LovENi, Muller and Troschel. 



H.M.S. Challenger, Station 49 (May 20, 1873), lat. 43° 3' N., long. 63° 

 39' W. (about 100 miles south of Halifax) in 85 fathoms, gravel and stones 

 (Lyman). 



ECHINOIDEA. 



DIADEMOIDA. 



Family Strongylocentrotidoe. 

 Strongylocentrotus Drobachiensis (Muller). 



Echinus Drobachiensis, Muller (1776). 



Echinus neglectus, Lamarck (1816). 



Echinus granularis. Say (1827) ; non Lamarck. 



Echinus granulatus, Gould (1841). 



Tnxopneustes Drobachiensis, L. Agassiz (1846). 



Euryechinus Drobachiensis, Verrill (1866). 



Strongylocentrotus Drobachiensis, A. Agassiz (1872). 



The common sea urchin of the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 which is abundant throughout the whole region, especially in very shallow 

 water. In the Bay of Fundy, Professor Verrill says that it ranges in depth 

 from low-water mark to 109 fathoms, and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence it is 

 very common a little below low- water mark or in less than 10 fathoms, 



