738 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



ACTINARIA. 



Metridium marginatum Milne- Ed wards, (p. 329.) 



Hist. Nat. des Coralliuires, vol. i, p. 2.54, 1857; Verrill, Revision of Polyps., in 

 Mem. Bostou Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i, p. 22, 1864 ; Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. X, p. 337, 1860; American Naturalist, vol. ii, p. 252; Tenney, Natural 

 History, ]). 523, tigs. 515-517, 1865 ; A. and Mrs. E. C. Agassiz, Sea-Side 

 Studies, p. 7, tigs. 2-7, 1865. Actinia viarginafa Lesueur, Journal Acad. Nat. 

 Sciences, Philad., vol. i,p. 172,1817; Gould, Invert. Mass., ed. i, p. 349, 1841; 

 Leidy, Jouru. Acad. N. S., Philad., ser. ii, vol. iii, p. 140, 1855 Agassiz, Contri- 

 butions, vol. iii, p. 39, tig. 8, 1860. Actinia dianthiia Dawson, Canadian Nat- 

 uralist and Geologist, vol. iii, p. 402, figs. 1,2, 1858. 



New Jersey to Labrador. Commou in Long Island Sound, Buzzard's 

 Bay, and Vineyard Sound, but mostly smaller than farther north j 

 abundant in Massachusetts Bay, Casco Bay, and Bay of Fuudy, low- 

 water to 90 fathoms. 



Sagartia leucolena Verrill. Plate XXXVIII, lig. 284. (p. 329.) 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 336, 1836 ; American Naturalist, vol. ii, p. 261. 

 North Carolina to Cape Cod. Common in Long Island Sound, Buz- 

 zard's Bay, and Vineyard Sound ; Great Egg Harbor, Xew Jersey. 

 Fort Macon, North Carolina (coll. Dr. Yarrow). 



Sagartia modesta Verrill. (p. 330.) 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 337, 1866. 

 Long Island Sound to Vineyard Sound. Savin Eock, near New 

 Haven; Goose Island; Stony Creek; Naushon Island; low-water, 

 buried in sand or gravel. 



Paractis rapiformis Milne-Edwards, (p. 363.) 



Hist. Nat. des Coralliaires, vol. i, p. 249, 1857; Verrill, American Journal of 

 Science, vol. iii, p. 436, 1872; Dana, Corals and Coral Islands, p. 23, figure, (in 

 ed. i, as Sagartia modesta V.). Actinia rapiformis Lesueur, Journ, Acad. Nat. 

 Sciences, Philad., vol. i, p. 171, 1817 ; Verrill, Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. i, p. 35, 1864 ; Proc. Boston Soc. N. H., vol. s, p. 338. 



North Carolina to Long Island Sound. Fort Macon (coll. Dr. Yar- 

 row) ; New Jersey (Lesueur)'; near New Haven (Dana). 



Halocampa producta Stimpson, MSS. Plate XXXVIII, fig. 285. 



(p. 330.) 



Verrill, Revision, in Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i, p. 30, Plate 1, figs, 10, 11, 

 1864. Actinia producta Stimpson, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. v, p. 110, 

 1856. Corynactis albida Agassiz, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. vii, p. 24, 1859. 

 HaJcampa albida Verrill, Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i,p. 29, 1864; A. 

 and E. C. Agassiz, Sea-Side Studies, p. 16, fig. 15, 1865 ; Verrill, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x,p. 338, 1870 {Halocampa). 



South Carolina to Cape Cod. Shores of Long Island Sound, at 

 Stony Creek, etc. ; Naushon Island; Martha's Vineyard; Nantucket; 

 Gape Cod. Charleston, South Carolina (Stimpson). 



