332 ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDITIONS VOL. 14 



Recorded by Hincks from the Queen Charlotte Islands, by Robertson 

 from San Pedro, southern California, and by O'Donoghue from Gabri- 

 ola Pass and Houston Channel, British Columbia. 



Hancock Stations: 1259-41, Dewey Channel, west coast of Lower 

 California; 1415-41, San Miguel Island, southern California, and 

 1474-42, Charleston, Oregon; shore to 49 fms. 



Schizomavella auriculata acuta new variety 

 Plate 38, figs. 7-9 



This rather characteristic variety differs but little from the typical 

 auriculata except in the nature of the avicularia. These are usually 

 mounted on a low umbo with the sharp-pointed mandible directed back- 

 ward, they are less elevated than in the typical form, occasionally 

 enlarged ; on the same colony there are more rarely very elongate slender 

 avicularia, pointed at both ends, with the mandible occupying only 

 about half of the avicularian area. These elongate avicularia are little 

 elevated and horizontal with the frontal; they resemble the giant 

 avicularia of the variety ochracea Hincks, except for their form and 

 position of attachment of the mandible. The frontal is usually thickly 

 granulated with small round tubercles between the pores. The zoarium 

 is encrusting and varies from white to reddish brown in color. 



At first I believed this to be a different species, but the inter- 

 gradations and the similarity of the operculum and ovicell seem to 

 rank it as merely another variety of auriculata. 



Type, AHF no. 65. 



Type locality, Hancock Station 1662-48, Santa Cruz Island, southern 

 California, 33°55'50''N, 119°31'05"W, at 23 fms. Also taken at Sta- 

 tions 1232-41, off the San Pedro Breakwater, 18 fms, and off Santa 

 Catalina Island, 55 fms, southern California. 



Schizomavella porifera (Smitt), 1867 

 Plate 38, fig. 10 



Escharella porifera forma typica Smitt, 1867 :9. 

 Lepralia porifera J Hincks, 1877:102. 

 Lepralia porifera. Waters, 1900 :75. 

 Schizoporella porifera, Nordgaard, 1906:29. 



Zoarium encrusting, white. Zooecia moderately large, 0.65 to 0.80 

 mm long by 0.40 to 0.50 mm wide, distinct, considerably inflated; the 

 frontal a tremocyst with large pores which become infundibular with 



