%o. 1923. DESCRIPTIONS OF PACIFIC ALGYONARIA— NUTTING. 101 



Spicules: These are mostly small, rather slender and straight, 

 irregularly tuberculate spindles. There are a few minute double 

 heads, crosses, etc. The spindles are rather larger and more slender, 

 especially those of the axis, than in P. nodosa. Those of the axis 

 are usually white or colorless. 



Color: The colony is a light, clear, brick-red, which fades to nearly 

 wliite at the base of the main stem. 



Locality. — The type and one other specimen were found at sta- 

 tion 5079; Omai Said Light, N. 29° E., 24 miles; 475-505 fathoms. 



Type-specimen.— Cat. No. 30018, U.S.N.M. 



This is a very well marked species, with much smaller calyces and 

 less well differentiated zooids than the last. Its size is far beyond 

 the maximum of the type of the genus, P. nodosa, and both the 

 nodules and individual calyces are much less prominent. 



LITERATURE CITED. 



Balss, H. Ueber Pennatuliden des Miinchen Museums, Sonderabdruck aus dem 



Zoologischen Anzeiger, vol. 34, Nos. 13-14, June, 1909. 

 Brundin, a. Alcyonarien ausder Sammlung des zoologischen Museums in Upsala, 



Bihang til Svenska Vet. Akad. Handlingar, vol. 22, Afd. 4, No. 3. Stockholm, 



1896. 

 Danielssen, D. C. Forhandl. Vidensk.-Selsk., Christiania, 1858. 

 HuBRECHT, A. A. On a new Pennatulid from the Japanese Sea, Proc. Zool. Sec, 



London, 1885. 

 JtJNGERSEN, H. F. E. The Danish Ingolf Expedition, I, the Pennatulida, 1904. 

 KiNOSHiTA, K. Primnoidse von Japan, Journal of the College of Science, Imperial 



University, Tokyo, Japan, vol. 23, article 12, Tokyo, 1908. 

 — On some Muriceid Corals belonging to the Genera Filigella and Acis, Journal 



of the College of Science, Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan, vol. 27, article 7, 



Tokyo, 1909. 

 KoLLiKER, A. von. Anatomisch-Syatematische Beschreibung der Alcyonaria. Die 



Pemiatuliden, 1872. 



Report on the Pennatulida dredged by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 



1873-1876, Challenger Reports, Zoology, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1880. 



KoREN, J. and Danielssen, D. C. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne, vol. 5, 



1848. 



Nye Gorgonider og Pennatulider tilhorende Norges Fauna, 1883. 



KiJKENTHAL, W. Alcyonaceen von Ternate, Abhandl. der Senckenb. naturforsch. 



Gesellschaft, vol. 23, Heft I, 1896. 



Versuch einer Revision der Alcyonarien, II, Die Familie der Nephthyiden, 



Teil I, Zool. Jahrbiicher, Abth. fiir Syst. Geographic und Biologie der Thiere, 

 vol. 19, 1903. 



(Same publication as above), Teil II, 1905. 



Japanische Alcyonaceen; Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte Ostasiens, Heraus- 



gegeben von Dr. F. Doflein. Einleitung von Dr. F. Doflein. Miinchen, 1906. 



und GoRZAWSKY, H. Japanische Gorgoniden (same publication as above), 



Teil I, Die Familien der Primnoiden, Muriceiden und Acanthogorgiiden. 1908. 



Japanische Gorgoniden (same publication as above), Teil II, Die Familien der 



Plexauriden, Chrysogorgiiden und Melitodiden. 1909. 

 Diagnosen Neuer Japanischen Gorgoniden. Reise Doflein, 1904 (5). Zool. 



Anz., vol. 32, Nos. 20-21, 1908. 



