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Two specimens from Station 116, 405 fathoms, and one 

 from Station 120, 240 to 276 fathoms. 



Class ANTHOZOA. 

 Subclass ALCYONIOMORPHA. 

 Order PENNATULIDA. 



At Station 115, 188 to 220 fathoms, a fine specimen of a 

 Pennatula was obtained ; it is of a remarkable rich orange 

 colour, the pigment being insoluble in alcohol. 



At the same Station was dredged a large specimen of an 

 Umhelhda near to U. Carpenteri^ Koliiker. 



At Station 118, in 1803 fathoms, some small specimens of 

 an Umhellula of a bright pink colour occurred. 



Subclass ACTINIOMORPHA. 



Order ACTINIARIA. 



Family Actinidse. 



Eight species of bathybial Actiniaria were obtained during 

 the season between 240 and 1997 fathoms. Among them is 

 an Epizoanthus encrusting a shell of a living Pleurotomid, 

 from the Laccadive Sea ; and a remarkable rigid cup-shaped 

 form with a non-retractile peristomCj from the mud of the 

 Bay of Bengal. 



Order MADREPORARIA. 



MADREPORARIA APOROSA. 



Family Turbinolidse. 



Flabellum, Lesson. 



1. Flahellum japonicum^ Moseley. 



Flahellum japonicum^ Moseley, ' Clialleiiger ' Deep-sea Madreporaria, 

 p. 168, pi. vii. figs. 3, 3 a, pi. xvi. fig-. 12. 



A series of ten specimens (five living and five dead) — the 

 smallest of which measures '95 by '85 of an inch, the largest 

 3 by 2*25 inches in the diameters of the calicular orifice — was 

 taken at Station 109, 738 fathoms. 



In the smaller specimens the corallum is wide and shallow, 

 with the primary and secondary costa; well marked, the colu- 

 mella abundant and formed of contorted fascicles, the fifth 



