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the region under consideration. This scarcity of literature is prob- 

 ably due to the fact that the region is singularly barren of alcyonarian 

 life so far as the shallow-water fauna is concerned. Quite the con- 

 trary is true of the deeper water off the Californian coast, and it 

 remained for the Fisheries steamer Albatross to demonstrate this 

 fact during the operations of that vessel in 1904, which yielded the 

 greater part of the material upon which the present paper is based. 



SYSTEMATIC LIST OF CALIFORNIAN ALCYONARIA IN THIS REPORT. 



Order ALCYONACEA. 



Family Corntjlarid2e. 

 Telesto rigida. 

 Telesto ambigua. 

 Sympodium, armatum . 



Anthomastus ritteri. 



Family Alcyonhxe. 



Order PENNATULACEA. 



Family Pennatulid^e. 



Pennatula aculeata. 

 Ptilosarcus quadrangularis. 

 Halisceptm m cystiferum. 



Stylatula elongata. 

 Acanthoptilum gracile. 

 Acanthoptilum pourtalesii. 

 Acanthoptilum album. 

 Acanthoptilum scalpelliforme. 

 Acanthoptilum annulatum. 



Baltidna pacifica. 

 Baltidna finmarchica. 



Funiculina armata. 

 Halipteris con torta. 



Stachyptilum superbum. 

 Stachyptilum quadridentatum. 



Anthoptilum grandijlorum. 



Umbellula magniflora. 

 Umbellula huxleyi. 

 Umbellula loma. 



1 > is t ichoptilum verril/i i . 



Renilla amethystina. 



Family Stylatulid.e. 



Family Virgxjlarid^e. 



Family Fi \ktm\iiie. 



Family STACHYPTILID e. 



Family Anthoptilice. 

 Family Umbellulid.e. 



Family Protoptiliixs:. 

 Family Renillule. 



