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with white and paler toward the tips ; the acrorhagi are often blue, 
but sometimes pale brownish or yellowish ; sometimes they are 
inconspicuous ; disk similar to the tentacles, but often with paler 
radi, or flecked with whitish. 
This species has nematocysts capable of stinging the hands of 
some persons quite severely. The tentacles and gills are not retrac- 
tile. 
One individual was found in 1901, with a young one budding 
from the side of the column. It is hermaphrodite and viviparous, 
according to Duerden. The young are born in much earlier stages 
of growth than in the preceding species. (See Journ. Linn. Soe. 
London, xxvii, pp. 269-316, pl. 18, 19, 1889.) 
We found it at numerous localities. It is in the collections made 
at Bermuda by Mr. G. Brown Goode in 1876, together with Epieys- 
tis crucifera, Aiptasia annulata, Condylactis gigantea, ete., but 
without notes or special stations. 
MeMurrich has adopted the name ZL. neglecta (D. and Mich., 1860) 
for this species, or rather he has united the two forms under the 
former name, in his article of 1905, after studying and redescribing 
the original type of Z. Dan, preserved in the Turin Museum.* 
But as the type of Z. neglecta was not found, his argument for 
uniting them is not very convincing. Certainly I have never found 
any Bermuda specimens agreeing with the one described and figured 
by McMurrich from the Bahamas (1898, pl. 1, fig. 7). 
But Duerden’s Jamaica specimens, described as LZ. neglecta, agree 
well with those from Bermuda. The matter needs further study. 
Possibly MceMurrich’s Bahama specimen was one that had lost its 
gills and was regenerating new ones, so that they were not normally 
developed. They not only lack evident acrorhagi, but are not more 
than one-fourth as large as those of similar sized Bermuda speci- 
mens, and have far less numerous divisions. It is not improbable 
that there are two West Indian species of the genus. Therefore 
it seems to me better not to unite them at present. Until more 
* The synonymy of ZL. neglecta is as follows : 
Lebrunia neglecta Duch. and Mich. 
Lebrunia neglecta Duch. and Mich., op. cit., p. 48, pl. vii, fig. 8, 1860 (young). 
Andres, op. cit., p. 362 (non Duerden). 
?Actinodactylus neglectus Duch. and Mich., op. cit., p. 44, 1860 (very young). 
?Stauractis incerta Andres, op. cit., p. 225, 1884 (new name for last). 
Lebrunea neglecta MeMurrich, Actin. Bahama Is., p. 33, pl. i, fig. 7 (general), 
pl. iii, fig. 11-14 (anatomy). Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci., viii, p. 48, 1899. 
