14. A. E. Verrill—Dredgings on the Coast of New England. 
siderable instrumental error, for which I have no data. The 
life Hage. a temperature not above 40°, and perhaps con- 
siderably lo 
Asa fall tours with complete lists of the species obtained 
on this and the previous cruises, will soon be published, it is 
on] ly necessary to mention, at this time, some of the more inter- 
esting discoveries. 
From the 150-fathom locality, N. lat. 42° 11’, W. long. 67° 
17’, 92 species were obtained,* exclusive of Foraminifera. 
mong the Radiata from this place, the most poe aon were 
(u) Bolocera Tuedice Grosse ; (u, 0) Certanthus borealis V., OV. ; 
(o, p) Pennatula; + Virgularia (see note, page 5); (2) Sicdoeella 
Gayt Hincks; S&. tricusprdata H.; Sertularia cupressina Linn. ; 
Ophioglypha Sarsti Lym.; Ophiacantha spinulosa Miill. and 
Trosch.; + Archaster arcticus Sars; + Solaster furcifer Dub. 
and Koren; (t, & 0, p) Schizaster fragilis (D. and K.); Eehinar- 
achnius parma; + Thyon e fusus? Koren. Of these the Virgularia, 
locera, Cerianthus, Astropecten, Solaster, and Thyone have all 
been added to the American fauna this year, the last three 
being as yet — on this side of the Atlantic only from Dr. 
Packard’ s dredgi 
Of Mollusca ere were 32 species : among the Bryozoa were 
+ Discoporella verrucaria Smitt; +Avarthropora borealis Smitt ; 
ornerea lichenoides Smitt; Cellularia ternata (var. Jobnst. ; 
Bugula Murrayana Busk: among the Lamellibranchs were 
‘e) Pecten pustulosus V.,sp. nov. ;+ (v) Arca pectunculoides Scacchi ; 
Jeera arctica ecg Yoldia obesa saa Leda tenuisulcata ; 
Menan in 28 to 52 fathoms; v is west of the southern portion of Grand Menan 
in 40 to 60 fathoms; w, is between Campo Bello an the brite: ~ Me Aenea 
x is off Head Harbor, in 70 to 90 fathoms. The + indica the species 
has not been found as yet in any other locality on he time of he Ui United States. 
Species without any designation have been found in numerous localiti 
Pecten pustulosus 
sp. nov. 
Upper valve more convex than the lower, a little swollen toward the umbo; 
‘di 
by 
Sens ange a grooves, which pass between and separate the vesicles ; on 
the w , above the origin of the vesicles, the border of the grooves rises into a 
_ igh miatvor’ lamella. Lower valve with fine, close, slightly raised, con- 
ee faint toward the beak. Auricles unequal, that of the 
