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Belle Isle) in 6 fathoms ; Henley Harbour, 8 fathoms ; Square Island (La- 

 brador) 15 to 30 fathoms ; Cateau Bay, Long Island, 15 fathoms, sand ; and 

 Thomas Bay, 15 fathoms mud (Packard). Fox Harbour, Labrador, in 3 

 fathoms, Stearns expedition, (S. I. Smith). 



DiASTYLis QUADRISPINOSUS, G. O. Sars. 



Cuma bispirwsa, Stimpson (1853). 

 Diastylis quadrispinosus, G. O. Sars (1871). 



Grand Manan, " dredged in 35 fathoms, gravel, in the Hake Bay " 

 (Stimpson)- "Bay of Fundy, 1868, 1870,1872. In 1872 it was also 

 dredged in vast numbers at Eel Cove, Grand Manan, in 8 to 10 fatlioms, 

 sand, by Prof. H. E. Webster. Off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, 75 fathoms, 

 fine sand and mud, 1877. In and near Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, 1872, 

 1877 : 20 fathoms, soft mud and sand; 16 and 18 fathoms, fine sand and 

 red algte ; 21 fatiioms, sand, stones and algae; 42 fathoms, fine sand ; 52 

 fathom-!, fine sandy mud. Also, about 120 miles south of Halifax, 190 

 fathoms, gravel and pebbles, 1877" (S. I. Smith, 1879 ; op. cit., p. 113). 

 Northumberland Strait, at several localities ; and eight miles N.E. of Cape 

 George, Nova Scotia, in 10 fathoms, sand, dredged by the writer in 1873. 



" Upon the coast of northern New England, this is by far the most abun- 

 dant species of the genus. It is undoubtedly the species which Stimpson 

 called Cuma bispinosa, but his description is wholly insullicient to 

 characterize the species, and I therefore prefer to retain the more appropriate 

 name proposed by G. O. Sars, who has described and figured the species most 

 admirably. Prof. Sars has identified specimens which I have sent to him 

 from different localities on the New England coast " (S. I. Smith, 1879 ; op. 

 cit., p. 113). 



Diastylis sculptus, G. O. Sars. 



"Bay of Fundy: found at low-water mark, in sandy mud, 1868 ; at the 

 surface, at low- water mark, and in 4 fathoms very soft mud, 1872 ; also in 

 60 fathoms, mud, off Head Harbour. " Near Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 

 company with D. Rathkii and D. quadrispinosus, 20 fathoms, soft mud and 

 fine sand, 1872. Halifax Harbour, 16, 18 and 21 fathoms, fine sand, stones 

 and red algie, 1877. About one hundred and twenty miles south of 

 Halifax, 190 fathoms, gravel and pebbles, 1877, ten large females, all 

 carrying eggs. Northumberland Strait, Gulf of St. Lawrence," about ten 

 miles north of Shediac, " in 10 fathoms sand, J. F. Whiteaves," 1873 (S. I. 

 Smith, 1879 ; op. cit., pp. Ill and 112). 



