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same various colors as the column, but paler; they are most often 
pale grayish, greenish, or light brown, sometimes light pink or flesh- 
color. They usually have a yellow or white spot on each side of the 
base. The inner surface is often (var. catenulata) characteristically 
marked by a median row or chain of rounded or elliptical flake- 
white spots, often connected together by a median narrow stripe, 
and clearly defined laterally by a continuous narrow dark line of 
green or brown, on each side, which usually persist in preserved 
specimens after all other colors have faded. The spots may be 
transversely elliptical when the tentacles are partly contracted and 
sometimes they are nearly or quite in contact. In some specimens 
these spots are more irregular or not so clearly defined, and in some 
pale varieties the tentacles appear to be unspotted (var. carneola). 
The disk is somewhat Jike the column in its ground colors, but 
paler. The mouth is usually surrounded by a green or light brown 
zone ; next there is a zone of white radial spots, bars, or lines, bor- 
dered outwardly in many cases by angular or V-shaped brown or 
green markings, which often unite into a stellate zone, but in other 
cases are separated by white radial lines. The white radial lines or 
bars opposite the 12 inner tentacles are wider than the others, and 
are often defined by dark lines continuous with those on the tenta- 
cles (var. catenulata). It is viviparous. 
Found also in the Bahamas and Jamaica. 
Var. catenulata, nov. Figure 116. 
Actinoides pallida Verrill, op. cit., p. 558, p. Ixviii, fig. 4 (non Duerden). 
This name is here given to the color variety, described above, 
having a chain of connected, well defined white spots bordered by 
narrow dark lines, on the inner surface of the tentacles. It is the 
most common variety at Bermuda and may eventually prove to be a 
species distinct from the true ste//oides of the Bahamas, which was 
not described as having markings of this character. 
Var. carneola, noy. Figure 116a. 
This name is proposed for a rather peculiar color variety, obtained 
in 1901, and of which I have an excellent colored drawing by A. H. 
Verrill (see fig. 116q). 
The column is light red or flesh-color, with longitudinal rows of 
bright or light red spots, larger below, and with rows of conspicuous 
darker red suckers on the upper part ; the tentacles are pale pink, 
