292 A. FE. Verrill—Marine Fauna occupying the outer banks 
Art. XLI.-—Notice of the remarkable Marine Hibyii occupying 
the outer banks off the Southern coast of New England, No. 2; 
by A. EH. Verritu. (Brief Contributions to Zoology from 
‘he Museum of Yale College: No. XLVIII. 
THE U.S. Fish Commission has occupied, this season, the 
station at Wood's Holl,* Mass., on Vineyard Sound, where a 
laboratory for its use was established in 1875. 
e shallower waters of that region “e sae very fully ex- 
plored by the Fish Commission in 1871 1875. Neverthe- 
less, much has been done this year Soierd! me ng the inves- 
tigation of the su = fauna, which is exceedingly rich and 
varied at Wood’s Holl. The larval forms of crustacea, annel- 
numbers in the towing nets, as well as adult forms of many 
kinds, nolarine: especially, numerous species of Syllide, many 
of which are n 
The special males for investigation this year, was, however, 
the rich fauna that was last year discovered in deep water, about 
75 to 120 miles off the southern coast of New England, near the 
edge of the Gulf Stream. A brief account of our * discoveries in 
that region last season was published by me in this Journal 
(vol. xx, p. 390), with notices and cas ga of many of the 
mollusca and echinoderms then discovere more detailed 
account of the mollusca was published by. me in the Proceed- 
ings of the National Museum (vol. iii, pp. 356-409, Dec.—Jan.). 
Professor 8. I. Smith published an account of the crustacea in 
the same Proceedings (vol. iii, pp. 418-452, Jan., 1881). 
In the following articles I propose to notice some of the 
more interesting species, whether obtained this year or last 
year. Some of these species were also dredged on the 16th 
of last pees by Lieut. Z. L. Tanner, in a trip made to 
the deep water off ‘the mouth of Chesapeake ae after the 
— eeipac operations of the season had ¢ 
many of the — there obtained are sekersed to, a list 
of chs stations is here a 
Station. Locality. Fathoms. Bottom. 
N. Lat. W. Long. 
896 3ST? 267 74° 19” 56 sand, shells. 
897 ne ke 1574 sand, mu 
898 Bt: 24 {4 US 300 mud 
899 37 92 "4 29 514 sand. 
900 $7 19 "4 Al 31 sand. 
901 37° 10 75 08 18 sand, 
Our dredgings this Re de i“ deep water, have also been made 
with the « “Fish Haw Z. Tanner, commander. Mr. 
* Formerly written “ ee “ont but the name was changed by an act of 
the Legislature of Massachusetts, in 1875. 
