A. E. Verrill—Marine Fauna off New England Coast. 309 
Art. XX XIII.—WNolice ft the remarkable Marine Fauna occupying 
the outer banks off the Southern Coast of New England, No. 5; 
by A. E. VERRILL. (Brief seated grt 2 to Zoology from 
the Museum of Yale College: No. LI.) 
AnTHOZOA (continued.) 
Pennatulacea. 
Previous to 1871 no representative of the Pennatulacea 
had been discovered on the American coast between Cape 
Hatteras and ros Arctic Ocean. In that year, and also in 1872, 
a number of specimens of Pennatula aculeata and of a small 
Virgularia were re dredge by Mr. J. F. Whiteaves in the deeper 
parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In 1872 these were also 
dredged by Dr. A. S. Packard and Mr. C. Cooke, on the “ Bache,” 
in the Gulf of Maine (see this Journ., v, pp. 5, 100, 1873). Sub- 
sequently the former species has been obtained in many locali- 
ties, and in ae numbers, off the coasts of New England and 
Nova Scot 
ince cre summer of 1878, when the Gloucester fishermen 
became interested in bringing home, for the use of the U.S. 
Fish Commission, the various objects taken on their deep-sea 
lines, they have not only presented large numbers of this spe- 
cies, from many localities, but they have contributed several 
others that are of still greater _ including more than a 
hundred fine specimens of the very large Ashe eaceg borealis, 
many of them nearly ane fect on ng, with abo ut a a ORD ) 
details of their distribution will be gi siven, in a report on our 
Anthozoa, sates to be published in the report of the U.S. Fish 
ny missio 
f the Voyage of H. M. 8. anaicry = vol, i, Part ii, Report on 
the Possiculan by Professor Albert V. Kélliker, 1880, 
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