A. E. Verrill—Dredgings on the Coast of New England. 5 
and at St. George’s Bank; Solaster furcifer Dub. and K., Astro- 
pecten arcticus Sars, both from 150 fathoms, near St. George’s 
Bank; Pentacta assimilis (D. and K.) and Lophothuria squamata 
(Miill. sp.) both from 430 fathoms. Of Mollusca, Dr. Stimpson 
oe 142 species in his work on the Invertebrata of 
30 of Gasteropods, 3 of Cephalopods. Among the most inter- 
esting of these is a fine species of Octopus,t which we obtained 
ous and unequal, the inner ones lon. , in the t s 2°25 inc es 
long, and ‘12 in diameter e, grad) tapering, ; 1 inch 
and less in length. Oral es numerous, crowded ral ro rgest 
cimens about 1 inch long, slender, acute. Color of body dark chestnut-brown, 
pale bluish just below the tentacles; disk pale yellowish-brown; space within 
the oral tentacles, around the mouth, deep brown, with lighter r: : 
oral tentacles pale chestnut-b wn; marginal ones deep salmon or light oe 
w rk re 
ine into two lateral ones. 
The two largest specimens, dredged in 28 fathoms, east of Grand Menan, by the 
_ Writer, measured 5 inches across the disk and tentacles, but their bodies were 
mutilated. Entire ones of much smaller size were dre ged by Dr. Packard and 
Mr. Cooke in 110 and 150 fathoms, soft mud, near St. George’s Bank. — The largest 
of these was 8 inches long, and like other species of the genus, inhabited a thick, 
tough, felt-like, muddy tube. 
= Pennatula, dredged by Dr. Packard and Mr. Cooke in 110 and 160 fath- 
hear St. G. i i identical with the species 
nT George’s Bank, is apparently ide Gate Tawrence x doag 
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Mr. J. F. Whi sev localities in 
water, both in 1871 and 1872, but resembles ordinary E specimens 0: 
P. phosphorea rm re than d s sent to me by Mr. Whiteaves. 
. hs re more time a’ dy + been gone ard ap it to as “e 
ether it i i also summer 0. 
it be a distinct species. A Virgularia was ras gh ne Gackaed 
- : ba “er 
t. Whiteaves, which may be identical with the one dredged 
150 fathoms. 
depre sed, — 
Pi Aan oadly rounded posteriorly, separa 
°onstriction at the sides. Head aiesoat as broad as the body, swollen above and 
1, irregularly conical, erectile tubercle, which has some sma 
Prominent, conical tubercles on its surface; the whole upper surface of the body, 
