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which form an irregular dark spot on the inner border of the pale central 

 spot. 



Reefs off Watch Hill, Rhode Island, in 4 or 5 fathoms, among rocks 

 and algae. 



HaRmothoe imbricata Mains gren. (p. 321.) 



Nordiska Hafs-Annulater, op. cit., p. 67, 1865, PL 9, fig. 8, A-E. Jphrodita imbri- 

 cata Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1084, 1767. Aphrodita cirrata Miiller, Prodi- 

 Zool. Dan., No. 2644 (t. Malmgren); Fabricius, Fauna Grcenlandica, p. 308, PL 

 1, fig. 70. Lepidonote cirrata GErsted, Gron. Ann. Dorsib., 1843, p. 14, PL 1, figs. 

 1, 5, 6, 11, 14, 15; Stimpson, Invertebrata of Grand Manan, p. 36, 1853. Polynbe 

 cirrata Sars, Arch. fur. Naturg., vol. xi, 1845, p. 11, PL 1, figs. 12-21 (embry- 

 ology). 



New Haven ; Watch Hill, Rhode Island ; Vineyard Sound ; Massa- 

 chusetts Bay ; Bay of Fundy and northward to Greenland ; Iceland ; 

 and Spitzbergen. Northern coasts of Europe ; Scotland. In the Bay 

 of Fundy it is common from above low- water mark to 60 fathoms ; in 

 Vineyard Sound, from low- water mark to 15 fathoms ; 25 fathoms off 

 Buzzard's Bay. 



Sthenelais picta Verrill, sp. nov. (p. 348.) 



(?) Sigalion Mathildas Leidy, Marine Invert. Fauna of the-Coasts of Rhode Island 

 and New Jersey, p. 16, PL 11, f. 53, from Journal Philadelphia Acad., series ii, 

 vol. iii, 1855 (non And. and Edw.) (?) Sthenelais Leidyi Quatr., op. cit., vol. i, 

 p. 278 (no description). 



Body depressed, much elongated, nearly uniform in breadth through- 

 out; back convex; ventral .surface flat. The whole dorsal surface is 

 closely covered by the imbricated scales, of which there are more than 

 150 pairs. These, with the exception of the anterior and posterior pairs, 

 are broadly lunate, with a deep emargination in the center of the ante- 

 rior edge ; the posterior and lateral margins are broadly rounded ; the 

 outer lateral edge is laciuiately fringed; the posterior edge is smooth; 

 the whole surface of the anterior scales is covered with minute, slightly 

 elevated granules ; farther back, the exposed portion of the surface of 

 the scales is smooth, and the microscopic granules are restricted to the 

 anterior and inner portions. The scales of the anterior pair are oval, and 

 have their entire outer and anterior margins minutely but irregularly 

 denticulate. 



The head is small, rounded, contracted behind the posterior eyes and 

 in front of the anterior ones ; the eyes are near together, in a quadran- 

 gle ; those in the anterior pair are a little farther apart, and lateral. 

 The head is prolonged anteriorly into a narrow elliptical or oval portion, 

 which forms the base of the median antennae ; close to and below each 

 of the anterior eyes a prominent, membranous, ciliated process arises. 

 The feet of the first pair, which are directed forward, are elongated, and 

 bear a pair of slender, elongated, dorsal cirri, which are nearly as long 

 as the antennae; a much shorter, slender cirrus from the lower lobe, with 

 a small, thin, membraneous process below; and a large fascicle of long, 





