BULLETIN OF THE 

 List of specimens dredged by the Blake in 1878-80 : — 



Taken also by the U. S. Fish Commission, off Martha's Vineyard, in 302 

 to 310 fathoms. Its color, in life, is usually deep salmon-brown, but varies to 

 pale salmon, and even to yellowish white. 



The Gloucester tishermen have presented to the U. S. Fish Commission 

 about forty specimens, in twenty lots. These are from near the Grand Bank, 

 St. Peter's Bank, Western Bank, Banquereau, Sable Island Bank, and Le Have 

 Bank, in 85 to 300 fathoms. 



In the Zoology of the Challenger,* Dr. Kolliker described A. Tlwmsoni, 

 from off Buenos Ayres, in GOO fathoms. It is a large species, apparently iden- 

 tical in all respects with my species, from off Nova Scotia and New England. 



Funiculina armata Verrill. 



Funiculina armata Verrill, Amer. Jour. Sci., XVII., 1879, p. 240; XXIII., 1882, 



pp. 312, 315. 



Plate I. Figs. 4, 4 a, 4 b. 



Rachis long, slender, with large, urcolate, rigid, spiculose polyp-caliclcs, 

 armed at the aperture with eight sharp, divergent, spiculose points. Axis and 

 rachis quadrangular, the sides of the axis concave. The polj'p-calicles are 

 entirely separate and arranged in immerous irregular, trans^•erse clusters, of two 

 to four smaller and larger ones intermingled; they are so stiffened by spicula 

 as to be scarcely flexible, and retain well their form; they are elongated, swell- 

 ing out gradually from near the base, and tapering again above the middle, to 

 near the summit, Avhich suddenly expands to the edge, from which eight acute, 

 rigid, white points diverge. The tentacles are spiculose, but wholly retractile 

 within the calicles ; they are situated between the divergent points of the cali- 

 cles, in expansion. 



The zooids are scattered along the middle of the polypiferous side of the 

 rachis, and also between the rows of polyps ; they are prominent and rather 

 large, though much smaller than the polyps, contracted at the base and en- 

 larged at the end, with eight rudimentary tentacles. 



Stem light brownish yellow or buff at base, becoming orange-brown or dark 

 purplish above; calicles dark reddish brown or deep purple, the whitish 

 spicula visible in eight chevron lines ; zooids pale j-ellow or light salmon 

 with purplish stripes ; tentacles dark broM'nish red. 



* The ZwUogy of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, Vol. I. Tart II., Report 

 on the rennatulida, by Trofessor Albert V. KolUker, 1880. 



