314 A.B Verrill— Marine Fauna off New England Coast. 
diameter. They agree in all respects with the larger specimens 
figured by Moseley. 
This coral is remarkable for having a wider range in depth 
and geographically than any other known species. It was 
taken by Pourtales, off Florida. By the Challenger it was 
taken in the N. Atlantic, off the Azores and off Bermuda. in 
32 to 1075 fathoms; in the S. Atlantic, in 1900 to 2650 
fathoms; in the South Indian Ocean, in 1600 to 1950 fathoms ; 
in the Malay Archipelago and West Pacific, in 360 to 2440 
fathoms ; east of Japan, in 2300 to 2900 fathoms; off Valpa- 
raiso, in 1375 fathoms. 
e Fungiacyathus fragilis of Sars closely resembles this coral, 
but its septa are not united into groups, nor are there any 
transverse dissepiments nor trabicule in the four specimens 
escribed, although some of them were larger than many o 
the specimens of Sathyactis, in which these characters are well 
A larger series of the arctic form may, however, 
serve to unite them. 
ACTINARIA,. 
Adamsia sociabilis Verrill, this vol., p. 225. 
This starts upon a small shell, usually a pteropod (Cavolina), 
occupied by the crab, but eventually secretes a chitinous pelicle 
and absorbs the shell. The base becomes much expanded and 
bilobed, the lobes often surrounding the aperture of the shell, 
and uniting. Column slender and long in full expansion, 
aM changeable, smooth, with pores near the base; disk a little 
wider; tentacles small, slender, in two circles, alternately erect 
and recurved. Mouth often protruded. 
Sagartia abyssicola V errill. 
? Phellia abyssicola Koren and Dan., Fauna Lit., Norvegis, iii, p. 78, pl. 9, figs. 
3, 4, 1877. 
pores scattered on the column, and from the mouth. 
ery abundant in this region, in many localities, on pebbles, 
shells, worm-tubes, Acanedla, etc. ; 76-506 fathoms. 
