108 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
strangest of the animals found at Barbados and we secured a 
good series of them which awaits imvestigation by whoever 
makes report on the Actinians. 
A beautiful anemone was found growing on the rocks exposed 
to the full sweep of the heavy surf at Bathsheba on the north 
coast. It was deep maroon in color with the tips of the tentacles 
and verruce moss-green in very effective contrast. The disk 
was four centimeters in diameter, the body three-fourths of a 
centimeter high, and the tentacles one and one-half centimeters 
long. Several social anemones, probably belonging to the genera 
Protopolythoa and Polythoa were found exposed to the surf on 
the Bathsheba coast, where they fairly encrusted the rocks in 
places. 
We were much amused on one occasion when our diver, Al- 
bert, was sent down to get a large expanded anemone at a depth 
of about six fathoms. He attempted it readily enough, but 
when it apparently vanished at the approach of his hand he 
was thoroughly frightened at such an uncanny performance 
and steadfastly refused to have anything to do with the spook- 
like creature after that. He was unusually fearless in facing 
the ordinary perils of the deep, but collapsed entirely when con- 
fronted by the unexpected conduct of a perfectly harmless 
anemone. 
Alcyonarians.—One of the most notable features of the alcy- 
onarian fauna of Barbados is the apparent scarcity of Penna- 
tulacee or ‘‘sea-pens.’’ A large portion of the Alcyonaria 
dredged from the Pacific consists of these beautiful and inter- 
esting forms, while from one hundred hauls at Barbados but a 
single pennatulid was secured and that was at Station 50, depth 
33 fathoms. It appears to be a Kophobelemnon, about five and 
one-half centimeters long, white or rather translucent, with a 
greatly inflated rachis and scattered polyps with hardly any 
visible calyces, although the polyps themselves are large with 
very long tentacles. It is shaped like an Indian club and differs 
considerably from any form that I have seen. It may repre- 
sent a new genus. ; 
Several species of Gorgonellide were secured, a family not 
usually found in the western Atlantic. The most interesting 
of these is the species before referred to as having commensal 
