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the West Indies. But tlie figures and descriptions of the branchial 

 appendages are too indefinite to make tliis certain, while both species 

 are said to have Literal pores, which I have not been able to see in the 

 following species, when contracted, though they may exist. 



Asteractis Bradleyi Veniii, sp. nov. 



Column whitish, sometimes low and broad, expanding from about 

 the middle to the margin of the broadly expanded disk ; at other times 

 vase-sha})ed, contracted near the base, cylindrical above, the disk 

 partly contracted ; at other times cylindrical, the portion of the disk 

 exterior to the tentacles involved, but the tentacles still protruding. 

 Surface in contraction strongly wrinkled transversely, less so longitu- 

 dinally, near the margin with papilliforra interspaces. 



The tentacles are 4S in number, in three rows; the 12 primary ones 

 about -5 of an inch long; the 12 secondary about 'S ; the 24 smallest 

 ones about •25. All the tentacles are slender and pointed, the larger 

 ones spotted with white. The small branchial papilla? form 48 radi- 

 ating series, the 12 rows corresponding to the primary tentacles ex- 

 tend from the margin to their bases; the 12 corresponding to the 

 secondary ones extend about half way to their bases; the 24 small 

 ones extend only about quarter way to the bases of the small tenta- 

 cles. The inner part of each row is formed of very small, scarcely 

 distinct, slightly prominent, crowded papilla?; farther outward they 

 become larger, more prominent, and slightly lobed ; the outer ones 

 are considerably larger, crowded, divided into five or six, slightly 

 rounded lobes, the outermost one forming the dentate margin of the 

 disk. 



Color of the column, in life, white ; largest tentacles delicate pink, 

 bearing four or five, eye-like spots of white, and fading out to white 

 at the tips; secondary tentacles pale pink, with similar, but com- 

 monlj' more numerous, white spots ; smallest ones white. 



Height, in expansion, "5 to '1 ; diameter of disk 'S to 1 inch ; of col- 

 umn in middle '3 to 'o ; diameter of buccal disk, inside of tentacles, 

 in full exj)ansion, '5. The same specimen, in alcohol, is about "5 high ; 

 •5 broad at base ; with the partly contracted disk -.35 broad. 



Panama Reef, on rocks above half tide, — F. H. Bradley. 



This species appears to be rare, as only one specimen is in the col- 

 lection, which is accompanied by notes and drawings made from it 

 while living. In the drawings there are twelve conspicuous, dark 

 spots, about midway between the tentacles and margin, and corres- 

 ponding with the primary tentacles. These are not referred to in the 



