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Text fi^re 12. — Euapta godefrroyi (Semper) : a, anchor; b, anchor-plate; 

 c, miliary rosettes; d, rod from tentacle; all enlarged about X 185. 



Celebes (Sluiter) ; Pelew Islands (Bedford) ; Samoa (Semper, 

 type locality) ; Hawaiian Islands, at three "Albatross" stations 

 (Fisher) ; Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (Boone). 



Material examined: Four specimens from Kaneohe Bay, 

 Oahu, Hawaii, depth 1 fathom at low tide, collected by the "Ara," 

 December 15, 1928, add a fourth Hawaiian record for this species. 



Colour : The living specimens are described by Bedford (1899) 

 as being yellowish gray or creamy white with radii indicated by 

 greenish brown or pale brown stripes and the dorsal inter-radii 

 marked with large, dusky, greenish-brown blotches. The young 

 are speckled with silvery gray. 



Technical description : The four alcoholic specimens meas- 

 ure, respectively, 320, 270, 385 and 310 millimeters long and have 

 variously 16, 15, 16 and 16 pinnate tentacles apiece. The tentacles 

 have from 24 to 72 pinnae each, united proximally for from a 

 third to half their length by a delicate web. 



The living specimens are slender, elongate, subcylindrical, 

 moderately tapered posteriorly ; anteriorly the disk is surrounded 

 by fifteen to sixteen pinnate tentacles ; the tentacles have twenty- 

 four to seventy-two pinnae apiece, connected proximally for from 

 a third to half their length by a delicate webbing. The original 



