A. EF. Verrill—Marine Fauna off New England Coast. 311 
Bank. Previously it was known from only a few Norwegian 
specimens, from Chistiansund, Deresue see "iatoten. Banen- 
fjord, ete., in 150 to 200 fathom 
Balticina Finmarchica (Sars) iat 
Virgularia finmarchica M. Sars, Fauna Lit. Norvegiz, — , 68, pl. 11. 
Balticina finmarchica ee Catalogue of "Sea Pens, p. 1 
Vernll, this Journal, xvi, p. 375, 1878. 
err: Jinmarchica Richiardi, Fea della Fam. Pennatularii, p. 69, 
seit ia finmarchica Ko6lliker, Pennatuliden, p. 243, 1871 (non Pavonaria 
Cuvier) 
Segui specimens were trawled by us, off Martha’s Vineyard, 
in 160 to 238 fathoms, in 1880 and 1881. The Gloucester 
fishermen have presented many large and fine specimens 
more than 75), some of them over two feet long. These 
came in 57 lots, from the outer slopes of the Grand Bank and 
all the banks off ‘the Nova Scotia coast, in a to 400 fathoms. 
Off George’s Bank, 980 fathoms,—A. Agass 1880. It was 
preriinely known off Finmark, 240 fathoms ; ‘eraeution’ 300 
fathom 
While a majority of these specimens are large and perfect, 
some examples of this, and other related species, have more or 
less of the distal portion of the axis bare, and sometimes bare 
or partially bare portions of the axis are seen along the middle 
region; not rarely, as much as one-half of the whole length is 
bare. This, I am convinced, is entirely due to accidental » 
injuries received while still living * In most cases the bare 
portions of the axis, whether terminal or median, have one or 
two, and often several, a firmly attached to them. The 
most common of thes is a verrucose e Urticina (probably the 
of Virgularidee, ‘that the nevevak genera “propre by Kolker 
for the small forms, with polyps in two simple ro for 
which he has proposed the families Protocaulidze and Prone! 
* Koren and Danielssen mention the same peculiarity as occurring in all their 
weeckcana of Vir via afinis and other European species. But they seem to 
think that this is a normal feature: They correctly objec ng . the view that it is 
due to contraction in alcohol. (Fauna Lit. Norvegis, iii, p. 9 
