Verrillj JSFotes on Madiata. 467 



sides may be simple roixnded tubercles or elongated papilla', "svithout 

 perforations ; prominent suckers with a concaye surface and thickened 

 border ; perforated verrucae, ejecting watej* in contracting ; or, near 

 the margin of the disk, lobed or sparingly branched papilla?. The 

 margin may be a smooth thickened rim, crenulate or dentate by the 

 uppermost tubercles, or it may bear colored spherules. The disk is 

 usually broad. The tentacles large and not very numerous, usually 

 completely contractile. 



Bunodes Gosse. 



Crihrina {pars) Ehr., Corall. rothen Meeres, p. 40, 1834. 



Bunodes Gosse, Trans. Linn. Soc, xxi, p. 274, 1855; Actinologia Britannica, p. 189, 



1860; Verrill, Mem. Boston Soc, i, p. 15, 1864. 

 Cereus (pars) Edw. and Haime {non Oken), CoraU., i, p. 263, 1857. 

 Anthopleura (pars) Diich. and M., Supl. Corall. Antilles, in Mem. Reale Accad., 



Turin, xxiii, p. 125, 1864-6. 



Corallum more or less elevated, texture firm, surface covered with 

 conspicuous verruciform suckers, concave above, or low rounded tuber- 

 cles, which are arranged in vertical lines along each ambulacral cham- 

 ber, the uppermost one in each row largest and projecting at the mar- 

 gin, so as to form a somewhat dentate or tuberculate border. The 

 suckers usually, if not always, have the power of adhering firmly to 

 foi'eign substances. They generally decrease in numbers and size from 

 the margin downward, often becoming obsolete below. Tentacles 

 rather large, not numerous, very contractile, usually separated from 

 the margin by a narrow but distinct naked area or " fosse." 



Bunodes cruentata Gosse. 



Actinia cruentata Drayton (Couthouy, MS.), IT. S. Expl. Exp., Zoophytes, p. 1 38, PI. 



3, fig. 23, 1846. 

 Cereus cruentatus Edw. and H., CoraU., i, p. 268, 1857. 

 Bunodes cruentata Gosse, Actin. Britannica, p. 194, 1860. 



Column with small sucker-tubercles arranged in vertical rows, con- 

 spicuous near the margin, smaller toward the base. Tentacles about 

 48 in number, long, subulate. In expansion the mouth has four lobes. 

 Color faint purplish red, with numerous vertical lines of darker red, 

 deepening to crimson near the disk ; slickers rose-white, yellowish 

 when expanded ; tentacles intense blood-red ; disk brownish purple, 

 alternating with radiating pale ochreous lines. 



Orange Bay, Terra del Fuego, buried to tentacles in sand, — J. P. 

 Couthouy, U. S. Expl. Exp. 



