ON PHORONIS PACIFICA, S/\ NOV. 



HARRY HEAL TORREY. 



DURING the past summer eight specimens of Phoronis came 

 into my hands. Five were collected in June, 1894, in Humboldt 

 Bay, California, by an expedition from the University of Cali- 

 fornia. Three were brought back from Puget Sound by the 

 Columbia University expedition of 1897. As the occurrence of 

 Phoronis on the Pacific coast has never been recorded, and it is 

 eminently desirable that all localities in which this interesting 

 form may be obtained should be made known to naturalists, 

 I have undertaken to describe this material, which represents 

 a single species hitherto unknown. 



The following table will indicate the distribution and date of 

 first description of all the known species of Phoronis. For the 

 species presently to be described I propose the name P . pacifica. 



P. hippocrepia Str. Wright. 1 1856 Great Britain. 



P. ovalis " 1856. 



P. (Crepind) gracilis Van Ben.' 2 1858. 



P. Buskii Mclntosh. 8 iSSi Philippines. 



P. australis Haswell. 4 1882 Port Jackson, N.S.W. 



P. Kowalevskii (Caldwell) 5 Benham. 8 1883 Naples. 



P. psammophila Cori. r 1889 Messina. 



Port Jackson ? 



P. Sabatieri Roule.* 1889 Gulf of Lyons. 



P. architecta Andrews. ;i 1890 North Carolina. 



P. ijimai Oka. 1 " 1897 Japan. 



P. pacifica. 1901 Humboldt Bay, California; 



Puget Sound, Washington. 



1 Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. i (1856), p. 165; Edin. Neiv Phil. Journ., 

 vol. iv (1856), p. 313. ' 2 Ann. Sci. Nat., 4th ser., vol. x (1858), pp. 11-23. 



3 Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xi (iSSi), p. 21 1; Chall. Rep. Zool., vol. xxvii 

 (1888), 27 pp. 4 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., vol. vii (1882), pp. 606, 607. 



5 Proc. Roy. Soc. Loud., vol. xxxiv (1883), pp. 371-383. 



6 Quart. Journ. Jllicr. Sci., vol. xxx (July, 1889), pp. 125-158. 



7 Dissert. Prag (Juli, 1889) ! Zeitschr.f. wiss. Zool., vol. li (1890), pp. 480-568. 



8 Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. cix (1889), pp. 195, 196. 



9 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 6th ser., vol. v (1890), pp. 445-449. 

 10 Annot. Zool. Japan., vol. i (1897), pp. 147, 148. 



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