Verrill, Notes on Radiata. 489 



Bay of Talcahuano, Province of Concepcion, Chili, in crevices of 

 rocks where tlie waves break with force, at the entrance ; also upon the 

 shores of Quiriquine Island, — Lesson. 



The position of this species is still uncertain. The filiform oro-ans 

 represented in the figure, were regarded as an outer series of lono-er 

 tentacles by Edw. and Haime. They have, however, much greater 

 resemblance to acontia in length and slenderness, as well as in color 

 and irregular number. The general appearance is that of a Sagartian, 

 but as no marginal tubercles are described or figured, it may not 

 belong to Nemactis, but in the state of expansion represented the 

 tubercles might be concealed from view. 



Sub-family, Fuelling Verrill. 



Proceedings Es«ex Inst, v, p. 324, 1868. 



Column elongated, covered with a thickened, persistent, epidermal 

 deposit, except that near the mai-gin, and sometimes close to the base, 

 the surface is naked and may be retracted within the thickened })or- 

 tion. Acontia very few and seldom emitted, — perhaps entirely want- 

 ing in some species. 



Phellia Gosse. 



Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol, ii, p. 193, 1859; Actin. Britannica, p. 134, 

 18G0; Verrill, Proc. Essex Inst, v, p. 325, 1868. 



Column mostly covered with a persistent epidermal deposit to 

 which particles of mud, sand, and dirt of various kinds often firmly 

 adhere ; upper portion, near the margin, naked, smooth. Margin 

 simple, not tuberculate. Tentacles marginal, in moderate numbers, the 

 outer ones usually considerably shortest. Acontia observed only in 

 one or two species, few, sparingly emitted from the mouth, and from 

 pores near the base. 



Phellia inomata Verrill, sp. nov. 



Base small, not dilated. Column when contracted obpyriforra, 

 when expanded obconic, the surface covered with adherent grains of 

 sand. Disk small, wider than base. Tentacles small, arranged in one 

 row at the margin. Color dii'ty white throughout. 



Height "5 inch ; diameter of base "06 ; of disk "12 of an inch. 



Panama and Pearl Islands, on loose shells in 4 or 5 fathoms, — F. H. 

 Bradley. 



Phellia ? rubens Verriii, sp. nov. 



Column small, subcylindrical, " mostly covered with slime," Ten- 

 tacles numerous, slender, in one row, " raised on a thin expansion, 



