
492 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VoL. XXXVI. 
Island, Conn. It was then much less abundant than in 1898, 
when it was described. 
Newport, RJ. This anemone was not found in the region 
about the Newport Marine Laboratory in 1887, nor in 189o, 
though in both seasons the actinians of the Newport region 
were extensively collected. In the summer of 1895 it was the 
most abundant species in the cove next the laboratory. 
Woods Hole, Mass. S. lucie was not observed by Verrill in 
his very exhaustive study of the fauna of Woods Hole between 
1871 and 1887. In my own collecting at that place in 1889 
it was not obtained. It was reported from Woods Hole in 
1898 by W. E. Coe, and, in a letter to me from T. H. Morgan, 
the same year is given as the earliest at which Professor Morgan 
is certain of its occurrence in that locality. It is now abundant 
on the wharves about Woods Hole, and especially on the eel- 
grass in the Eel Pond. 
Nahant, Mass. This species was not found at Nahant 
between 1882 and 1898, though collections of invertebrates 
from this locality were made usually several times annually in 
the years between 1882 and 1898. In the autumn of 1899 à 
few specimens of S. /uciæ were found in a small high tidal 
pool on Little Nahant. During the summer of 19o1 Albert 
P. Morse, without knowledge of the previous occurrence of 
this species at Nahant, collected specimens of it in that locality. 
It is now very abundant in most tidal pools on Little Nahant. 
Salem, Mass. It was collected at Salem Neck, near Fort 
Pickering, and near the Salem end of the Beverly Bridge in the 
summer of 1901 by Albert P. Morse. 
Salem is the most northerly locality for which I have any 
record of the occurrence of this species, and, since it is not 
included in the Preliminary Catalogue of the Marine Inverte- 
brates of Casco Bay, Me., prepared a year ago by Kingsley 
(01) it may be that Salem is not far from its present most 
northerly limit. 
The five localities already mentioned fall into the following 
series when arranged according to the sequence of earliest 
occurrences : New Haven (1892), Newport (1895), Woods Hole 
eai Nahant (1899), and Salem (1901). This series shows, 

