OtDSi "I NOKTB PACIFK AM' ADJACKN1 WATXBfl PI8HBB 1 ♦ > 7" 



h pedicellaria been found attached to a furr 



monly l nun l<>n._' and i- sometimes more robust than Figun 



On nil surfaces of the body but especially actinally and int< 

 found the heavy, subcorneal, denticulate pedicellariae « bose exact form is shown on 

 Plate 76, figures t. 5. I 'I 7, although representing forma 



also typical of -• The lar • I on the actinal 



interradial angle and commonlj measure 1.5 nun. in length. Tl 

 commonly 0.5 to 1 nun. lonj I . ■ mples, without appan 



locality (Montcn l i den tic 



scar* <• abactinalhj . 



Madreporic body, conspicuous, situated abou ii-k; 



Btriae fine, branched, irregularly centrifugal. 



are commonly three principal color phases bro 

 brown to dull sepia); brownish purple to dull purple; rathei low. 



The brown pli.-i-~«- varies to ohve, mottled with <lull gn 



through brownish purple with the dull bluish purple ph se The hater is less vivid 

 than the color of forma co • The yellow phas? is less common at Monterey than 



the brown and purple-brown. 



This typically intertidal form has hern taken 

 off Monterey, Calif It is the typical form of the open Sitka to Point 



Sul, Calif., where • appears never t cur. It • commonly, a 



will ■ k, in the protected waters ol Sound and tribut 1 in the 



many quiet bays and inl< ing upon the remarkable channel which 



Vancouver bland from the mainland. In these wal is the dominant form 



but intermediates frequently occur It i- absolutely impossible t>> allocate 

 mens since the differences between the formae are relative only. 



Remarks.- The typ< - mpson's .1 U •. from Shoalwater i 



been carefully examined The fui I pedicellariae ar> 



for i The specimen was dried without Bret being 



hoi so that the rays bav< rally flattened and the spinebearii 



te abactinal skeleton appeal to outline rather large areae But in /' 



e i- wide variation in thu atral Bpines have a d< the 



outer nde Some of these mid Bome of the dorsolaterals tly bifid or mal- 



formed nt the tip. not an uncommon occurrence in old animals Th< 

 for regarding this other than as an individual variant of oehraetvt one 

 hap- that do other specimens hn\ e been found (For figures -' ■ \ I nill. pi 



I>r A Djakonov, of the museum of the Academy of Sciences 1 R 9 S., kindly 

 undertook to find the type of Brandt's .' This involved r 



all the specimens of 1 1' ctor Djakonoi writes that th< 



type i- not m existence 'I i several specimei ted b] W 



including tw semblii from California, 1841; and three of forma 



rithout locality There are also t«" specimens 

 id a variety near > beled bj Brandt 



Their i- no type existing of A I Brandt 



