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222 A. #. Verrili—Marine Fauna off the New England Coast. 
Antedon dentatum V errill. 
Alectro dentata Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. segs on Philadelphia, vy, P. 153, 1825. 
Antedon dentata Verrill, Proe. Boston Soc t. Hist., x, p. 339, 
Alecto Sarsii Diiben and Koren, Sv. Vet ate a Handl., 1844, p. 231, pl. 6, fig. 2 
Antedon Sarsit Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sei., vii, p. 500, 1874. 
This species se Sconce deseribed by Say, from a speci- 
men found at Great Ege aE is description agrees 
in all respects so wall ithe our anialler specimens, that there can 
be little doubt of its identity. Moreover, this form occurs in 
abundance off New Jersey, at moderate depths, but no other 
species has been taken there, unless in very deep water. 
In addition to the numerous specimens from off Martha's 
es 
fishing grounds. Mr. A. Agassiz, also, took it, off our coast. 
ANTHOZOA. 
Of Anthozoa, upwards of thirty species were obtained. 
Among these are seven species of Pennatulacea and four of 
appear to be Spee be 
Urticina longicornis V., sp. nov. 
A large and very baniacane species, remarkable for its par ch- 
ment-like skin and long, tapering, pink tentacles. It contracts 
(eae and quickly. Column more or less pe case 
rest ; below this the integument i js firm, par rchment-like, gate 
with small verruce, arranged in vertical lines, often fading out 
below, to mere wrinkles; the verruce are mostly due to the 
arranged alternately in two or three circles, concentrated to- 
ward the margin; the inner row contains only twelve, whic 
stand wel apart, and are lar rger r than the rest. Mouth _ 
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