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a ventral space destitute of scales, except at the calyx margin, where four 
are present, forming with the two pairs of dorso-lateral scales an oper- 
culum. The calyces can be turned downwards from the stem.” 
Professors Wright and Studer state that the type species of this 
genus, Primnoa reseda, L., “seems limited to the Atlantic Ocean, where it 
is found from the Cape de Verdes to the Polar Sea ; it has been dredged 
in deep water off Setubal, at St. George’s Banks, and in the Bay of 
Fundy.” 
In the spring of 1894, however, Mr. Otto J. Klotz, D.T.S., of this 
city, obtained a fine specimen of an Alcyonarian, which Professor Verrill 
has identified with this species, on the coast of British Columbia. This 
specimen, which Mr. Klotz has kindly presented to the Museum of the 
Geological Survey, is stated by him to have been hooked by an Indian in 
the fall of 1893, while halibut fishing in Work Canal, near Port Simpson, 
in about twelve fathoms of water. Its colour, when fresh out of the 
water, is said to have been bright red, but when it came into Mr. Klotz’s 
hands it was creamy pink. It is upwards of three feet in height and a 
little more than two feet in the maximum spread of its branches. 
A characteristic fragment of another specimen of P. reseda, which is 
stated to have been collected on the north coast of the Queen Charlotte 
Islands, has recently been presented to the Museum of the Survey by W. 
B. Anderson, of Comox, V.L., through Professor Macoun. It would 
appear, therefore, that this long known and interesting species is not 
uncommon in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean. Three large 
Aleyonarians are now known to occur on the coast of British Columbia, 
viz., Verrillia Blakei, Stearns, Paragorgia Pacifica, Verrill, and Primnoa 
reseda, Pallas, sp. Fine examples of each of these are in the Museum of 
the Geological Survey of Canada. 
