A. E. Verrill— Marine Fauna of North America. 239 
‘dense masses of shingle perfectly loose and unconsolidated, 
derived from the waste of Paleozoic strata, a mass in no way 
except by its position, distinguishable from ordinary alluvium.” 
Tuomey mentions at Aiken, in South Carolina, beds o 
gravel and sand, without fossils, and lying at or under the base 
of the Cretaceous. Lieutenant Vogdes thinks that these may 
be Wealden. 
Morgantown, West Virginia, Nov. 4, 1878. 
Art. XXIX.— Notice of recent Additions to the Marine Fauna of 
the eastern coast of North America, No. 3; by A. E. VERRILL. 
Brief Contributions to Zoology from the Museum of Yale College. 
No. XL.* 
ANTHOZOA. 
Virgularia grandiflora, sp. nov. 
A large, stout species, with very large polyps, which are only 
slightly united, close to their bases. Rachis stout, ventral 
side convex, and with a wide naked space; below the polyp- 
iferous portion there is a marked fusiform swelling, with longi- 
_ tudinal wrinkles; the end is bulbous and perforated; at the 
distal end the naked rachis extends about 8™™ beyond the last 
Polyp-cells, and tapers to a blunt tip. Axis rather stout, 
rounded, yellowish white. The polyp-cells are large, and 
* Nos. XXXVII and XXXVIII were, by an error, doubly employed in this 
icle. 
_ Series. This is, in reality, the forty-second articl 
