NO. 1923. DESCRIPTIONS OF PACIFIC ALCYONARIA— NUTTING. 59 



Islands, 135-577 fathoms (Nutting). Japan, Satsuraa, and Sagami 

 Sea, 300-400 fathoms (Kinoshita). 



The U. S. Fisheries steamer Albatross specimens closely resemble 

 the one figured by Kinoshita. 



CALYPTROPHORA KERBERTI Versluys. 



Calyptrophora kerberti Versluys, Primuoidce of the Siboga Expedition, 1906, 

 p. 105. 



Several fragments of this species were secured from station 5093. 

 The largest specimen is 9.5 cm. high, dichotomously branched. The 

 polyps face downward, many of them broken off in the specimen, 

 normally in whorls of four. Wliorls about 2 mm. apart. The 

 calyces are about 2 mm. high, and project 1.7 mm. from the branch. 

 The basal scales do not form a complete ring on inner side, each with 

 a spine-like process from its distal end and outer corner a little more 

 than 1 mm. long. Buccal scales also forming an incomplete ring, 

 often with no spines on distal ends, as figured by Versluys, but quite 

 frequently showing two small spines. There is often a small ridge or 

 keel at the superior junction of these two scales. The margin is not 

 so straight as represented by Versluys, but is more or less sinuous 

 and hood-shaped. 



The scales in the branches are thin, often slender, and their ends 

 are imbricating. 



The axis is almost black proximally, lighter distally. The branches 

 are gray and the calyces are almost white. 



Locality. — Station 5093; Joga Shima Light, N. 8° W., 5 miles; 

 302 fathoms. 



The type-locality is Japan (Hilgendorf ) . 



Genus STACHYODES Wright and Studer. 



Calyx consisting of three pairs of large scale-like spicules, the 

 basal pair usually not completely encircling the polyp. 



STACHYODES MEGALEPIS Kinoshita. 



Stachyodes megalepis Kinoshita, Primnoidae von Japan, 1908, p. 47. 



Several small specimens secured by the U. S. Fisheries steamer 

 Albatross agree quite closely with the original descriptions and figures 

 of this species. 



Colony incomplete, 12.3 cm. high, flabellate in form. The main 

 stem, or branch, gives off two main branches which divide dichoto- 

 mously into four. The axis has a greenish-gold luster. On the basal 

 parts the calyces are in whorls of 7 or 8; on the distal parts they are 

 in whorls of 5, closely approximated. Calyces about 3 mm. high. 

 The basal scales are the largest and the middle pair the smallest, 

 each pair with its margin curved slightly backward, and each has the 

 appearance of having a marginal border of different texture from the 



