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ALICIINJE. 



Biinodeopsis globulifera, sp. nov. 



f Tiatrix globulifera Duch. and Mich., Corall. Antill., p. 44, pi. vi, figs. 15, 16, 1860. 



Vernll, Amer. Journ. Sci., vii, p. 146, fig. 20, 1899. 

 Bunodeopsis, sp. nov., Duerden, Actin. Jamaica, Journ. Inst. Jamaica, ii, p. 456- 



Plate LXVII. Figure 4. 



Column broad below, narrowed above ; in the least contracted 

 specimens the upper part is tapered to the tentacles and nearly free 

 of tubercles; in others the column is short and covered with tuber- 

 cles throughout, the naked part being concealed. The tubercles are 

 smooth, rounded, and variable in size and number, larger and smaller 

 ones are mingled together, but in general the lower ones are the 

 larger. They are often very numerous over the lower half of the 

 column and closely crowded. They are present in considerable 

 nunaber in specimens only 2™"" in diameter of column, but in such 

 specimens they are mostly near the base. The limbus is stronglj' 

 crenulated and lobed. 



Tentacles, in full expansion, very long and slender, three or four 

 times the diameter of the body," but they can contract to a much 

 thicker, tapered form, about twice the diameter of the disk. They 

 vary in number from 18 to 36, in the examples studied. Usually 

 the number increases two at a time, for examples with 18, 20, 22, 

 24, and 26 tentacles were found. The twelve inner ones are longer 

 than the others, and two rudimentary ones, just appearing, may 

 often be found. In one case a forked tentacle was noticed. The 

 disk is often nearly flat, but in many it protrudes in a conical form. 

 The mouth is small, with two feeble siphonoglyphs. 



Color in life yellowish green, often with dark brown streaks ; 

 vesicles yellowish brown. The largest examples are about 15™" 

 high and 8™™ broad at base. 



Only a single example of this curious species was obtained by us, 

 but a considerable number were collected by Prof. Bristol's party in 

 1898, which he has kindly loaned to me for study. 



It lives attached to algfe in shallow water. 



Mr. Duerden informs me that this is doubtless identical with his 

 supposed new species. At first I thought that it would prove to be 

 the adult of the long-sought Viatrix glohidifera, but if so the latter 

 was badly figured, for its vesicles are represented as close to the 

 bases of the tentacles instead of confined to the lower part of the 

 column. Therefore it seems best to consider it a new species. 



