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phore being very conspicuous and the other parts being corres- 
pondingly well shown. 
Fine colonies of Bugula-like Bryozoa were brought up from 
eighteen fathoms off Cape Colville. These show the avicularia 
very plainly. 
Among the Celenterates are a number of interesting things, the 
most surprising being the immense antipatharian already de- 
scribed. Some fragments of this specimen were saved but hardly 
enough to serve as a basis for description. The colony was very 
irregularly branched like the scraggly branch of an oak. Other 
specimens were bush-like in form, one, from which some of the 
simple-armed basket-fish already described were taken, being en- 
tirely clothed with an investing compound reddish brown actinian 
of a rather leathery consistency. This specimen was at first taken 
for an aleyonarian colony. 
Very beautifully colored anemones came up rather frequently 
attached to Pecten shells. Some of them were about three inches 
broad with a body height of two to three inches, regularly marked 
with alternating bright red and white longitudinal stripes, making 
a pretty pattern. The tentacles were red and very numerous. A 
slaty blue anemone of very convenient size for laboratory study 
was common on the rocks bared by low tide at Rangitoto Island, 
where they were collected by Dr. Stoner; others were found at 
Rakino Island. 
A large gorgonian belonging to the family Gorgonide was 
trawled from Mercury Bay near Auckland. This is interesting 
as being the only flexible coral found on our cruise. The group 
seems to find its center of distribution in the West Indies where 
it is one of the most characteristic features of the reef fauna. 
Several colonies of a fine aleyonarian were also taken off Cape 
Colville from a depth of eighteen fathoms. These grew in clumps 
of short branches borne on a short thick stem which, contrary to 
the usual custom in this group, is not sterile, but bears thickly 
implanted polyps. On the short stumpy branches the polyps are 
practically contiguous. There are no evident ecalyces, especially 
when the polyps are retracted, and the spicules are small tubular 
spindles thickly implanted in the body and tentacles. The color 
of the colony is a light or salmon pink. The polyps are not com- 
pletely retractile but are protected while partly retracted by the 
spicules on the infolded tentacles. 
Many simple corals were found growing on Pecten and other 
