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Flabellura angulare Moselet. 



Proc. Royal Soc. London, p. 550 ; Voyage of the Challenger, Part VII. Report on 

 :he Corals, 1881, p. 161, pi. 6, figs. 2, 2 a, 2 b. 



This species was taken by the Challenger Expedition, off Nova Scotia, 

 in 1250 fathoms. 



Deltocyathus Italicus. 



Dekocyathus Agassizii Pourtales, Bull. Mus. Comp. ZoiJl., 18G7, Vol.1, p. 113 ; 

 lUust. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. IV. Deep-Sea Corals, 1871, p. 15, pi. 2, 

 figs. 1-5, pi. 5, figs. 9, 10 ; No. VIII. Ilassler Exp., 1871, p. 35, pi. G, fig. 11. 



Verrill, Ainer. Jour. Sci., VII., 1874, p. 410. 



LixDSTRiJM, Contr. to Actinology of the Atlantic' Ocean, 1877, p. 10, pis. 1,2, 

 figs. 13-20. 

 Ddtocyatldis Italicus Dun'Can, Trans. Zoul. Soc. London, Vol. VIII. 



Pourtales, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zo51., 1880, Vol. VI. p. 101, pi. 1, figs. 1-8. 



MosELEY, Voyage of the Challenger, Ueep-Sea Corals, 1881, p. 145 (wood- 

 cuts). 



Two specimens of this species were taken by the IT. S. Fish Commission, off 

 Cape Cod, in 142 fathoms, Station 3G, 1873. It has been taken in numerous 

 localities off Florida and among tlie West India Islands, in 73 to 878 fath- 

 oms, by the Bache and the Bhike. It was also taken by the Porcupine 

 Expedition, off the coast of Europe ; ly the Josephine Expedition, off Villa 

 Franca, Azores, and on Josephine Bank, in 110 to 600 fiithoms; by the Chal- 

 lenger Expedition, off the Azores and Bennuda, in 1000 to 1075 fathoms, 

 oir Pernambuco, Brazil, in C75 fathoms, and in the South Pacific, in 2375 

 fathoms. 



This is an exceedingly variable species. The living forms have been iden- 

 tified by Duncan, and by Pourtales, in his last paper, with the fossil species, 

 Ddtocijatluis Italicus, from the Italian tertiaries. 



Bathyactis symmetrica INIoseley. 



Fantpa symmetrica Pourtales, Deep- Sea Corals, p. 4(i, pi. 7, figs. 5, G; Ilassler 



Expedition, 1874, p. 43; 

 Ballii/iielis symmetric Moseley, Zool. Voyage Challenger, Part VII., 1881, p. 18ij, 



pL 11, figs. 1-13, la-13a. 

 Verrill, Amer. Jour. Sci., XIII., 1882, p. 313. 

 "l Fuuijiacynlhus fraijilis M. Sars in G. 0. Saks, Remarkable Forms of Animal Life, 



I., 1872, p. 58, pi. 5, figs. 24-32. 



Numerous broken specimens of this very fragile coral were dredged by the 

 U. S. Fisli Commission, off Martha's Vineyard, at Stations 879, 880, 895, in 



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