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A. E. Verrill—Marine Fauna of North America. 371 
Art. XLVI.—Notice of recent additions to the Marine Fauna of 
the eastern coast of North America, No.2; by A. E. VERRILL. 
Brief contributions to Zoology from the Museum of Yale College. 
No. XXXIX. 
Durine the past summer Professor Baird established the 
headquarters of the U. S. Fish Commission at Gloucester, 
Mass. Numerous dredgings were made under the direction of 
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Beardslee. Mr. Richard Rathbun, Mr. Sanderson Smith and 
very large and valuable collection, containing many additions to 
the fauna, was obtained by means of our dredges and trawls, 
more novelties, both among the fishes and invertebrates, were 
secured by inducing the fishermen engaged, in the fisheries 
of halibut and cod on the outer banks, to preserve and bring 
in the various things that become entangled in their trawl- 
lines. Many of the following species, some of them of great 
terest, were thus obtained by the fishermen, together with 
humerous specimens of many better known species, among which 
the most conspicuous and abundant are large and fine specimens 
of the corals, Paragorgia arborea and Primnoa reseda, while 
Acanella Normani has recently been brought in from many 
localities in considerable numbers. 
ECHINODERMATA. 
oe pulvillus Sars. Norges Ecinod., p. 62, Pl. 6, figs. 14-16, 
« 75.8. 
A well-developed specimen of this species was dredged in 
thirty-five fathoms, off the Isles of Shoals, N. H., by Dr. A. 8. 
Packard, on the “Bache,” in 1874. It may be distinguished 
from P. militaris by its more warty surface, more swollen form, 
With the rays narrower below and the transverse spines fewer, 
€Ss prominent and less acute. 
Porania grandis, sp. nov. 
"he greater radius of the larger one is 4°75 inches ; radius of 
disk, 2-70, The upper side, when fresh, was bright cherry-red ; 
lower surface pale yellow. Hasily ‘listeesabed hy 
Smooth, fleshy surface, without spines; buat with two regular 
broad bands of soft slender papillze along each ray on the upper 
Side, and with radiating grooves on the lower side, which extend 
