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The few specimens obtained from off our northern coasts are of the typical 

 varii'ty, and some are of large size, but all that I liave seen were dead, though 

 evidently recent. 



Dasmosmilia Lymani Pourtales. 



Parasmilia Lymani Pourtalks, Illustrated Catalogue Mus. Comp. ZoiJl., 1871, 

 p. 20, pi. 0, figs. 8, 0, 10. 

 Verrili-, Araer. Jour. Sci., XXIII., 1882, pp. 310, 406 (reproduction from frag- 

 ments described). 



Dasmosmilia Lymani Pourtales, Bull. Mus. Comp. ZoiJl., VI., 1880, p. 108. 



This species was taken in considerable numljers by the U. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion Steamer Fish Hawli, in 57 fathoms, off Chesapeake Bay, 1880 ; off Mar- 

 tha's Vineyard, in UK) to 130 fathoms, 1881. 



It was dredged by Mr. Pourtales, while on the Bache, in 70 to 147 fath- 

 oms, oir the Florida Ileefs. 



Flabellum Goodei Verrill. 



Flabellum Goodei Verrill, Amer. Jour. Sci., XVI., 1878, p. 377 ; XXIII., 1882, 



pp. 313, 316, 407. 



Plate V. Figs. 3, 4. 



In life the color of the disk and tentacles is rich salmon; lips darker salmon, 

 with stripes of dark purplish brown, or sometimes uniform madder-brown. 

 The larger tentacles are stout, tapered, subacute. 



This species has been taken in large numbers, but in most cases badly 

 crushed, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Fish Hawk, off Nantucket 

 and Martha's Vineyard, in 219 to 780 fathoms, and off Chesapeake Bay, in 3t)0 

 fathoms, 1880 to 1882. 



It was first obtained by the Gloucester halibut fishermen in deep water off 

 Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, in 180 to 400 fathoms, 1878. Several addi- 

 tional specimens, from that region, have since been presented by them to the 

 U. S. Fish Commission. 



This species is very closely related to Flabellum alabastrum Moseley,* 

 dredged by the Challenger Expedition, off the Azores. The latter has been 

 identified by Lindstrom (Actinology of the Atlantic Ocean, p. 12) with the 

 Ulocyathus arcticus Sars, and the fossil Phyllodes hiciniatum Philippi. 



Our species grows to very large size; some specimens are 120 mm. long, 

 43 mm. broad, 80 mm. liigh. 



* Proc. Royal Soc. London, 1876, p. 555 ; and Zoologj- of the Voyage of the 

 Challenger, Part VII. Report on the Corals, 1881, p. IGO, pL 7, figs. 1-2 b, pi. 10, 

 fig. 11. 



