52 A. E Verrill — Additions to the Fauna of the Bermudas. 



Condylactis passiflora (Duch. and Mich.). 



Duchass. and Michelotti, Corall. Antilles, Supl., p. 3.1, pi. v, fig. 7. Verrill, 

 these Trans., x, p. 555, 1900. 



Some additional color-varieties of this very common species were 

 observed this year. The most remarkable one was a large specimen, 

 over a foot in diameter when expanded, found at " Sans Souci," in 

 the interstices of a sea-wall. In this the column was light red, as 

 usual, but the tentacles were pea-green with bright blue tips, instead 

 of the usual pink, magenta, or violet tips. The tentacles, as seen 

 expanded, were large and swollen, three to four inches long, with 

 enlarged, obtuse or swollen tips. 



Some pale or nearly albino specimens were also observed. The 

 tips of the tentacles frequently lack the bright colors.* 



Palythoa grandiflora Ver. 



Verrill, these Trans., x, p. 564, pi. lxviii, fig. 6, 1901. 



Plate VII. Figure 2. 



Very extensive colonies of this species, several feet across, were 

 found between tides, at Waterloo, in the course of the tidal streams. 

 These were nearly uniform in color. The disk was generally orange- 

 brown or dark yellowish brown, with paler radii and tentacles. A 

 small portion of one of these groups was photographed while living 

 and expanded, and this photograph is here reproduced. 



GORGONIACEA. 



Eunicea atra V., sp. nov. 



Plate IX. Figures 4, 5. 



A black, rather large, much-branched species with the branches 

 dichotomously divided, subparallel, often crooked, and very vari- 

 able in size on the same specimen. The edges of the large calicles 

 are only a little raised, and generally have a small, acute, angular 

 lower lip, which may be obsolete. Most of the branches arise from 

 near the base ; many are rather long and cylindrical ; others are 

 more or less clavate, some are tapered and not more than two-thirds 

 as large as the average. The calicles are variable in size and form ; 

 the larger ones are usually elliptical and rather close together. 



Height, 12 to 16 inches (300 to 400 nim ); breadth of the clusters of 

 branches, about the same; diameter of branches, 10 to [2 mm ; of 

 calicles, 0.5 to 1.5 mm . 



