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form Halipteris blakei. The place of discovery was the Gulf of Georgia, Burrard's Inlet (comp. also 

 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc. Vol. V, 1873, P^- 1' PP-7— 12). From the description given I would not maintain 

 as a certainty, however, that this species is not a Pavonaria K611., and at all events nothing more 

 particular can be said as to its specific difference from Halipteris christii. The description of the 

 calcareous axis with its lower enlargement agrees with both genera. The specimen from the same 

 locality, described and figured by Moss (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, p- 730), undeniably reminds one 

 most of a Pavonaria; but neither the description nor the figure yields any relialjle basis for a determin- 

 ation. Naked calcareous axes of the same forms have been described by Gray (Catal. Sea-Pens, 

 p. 40; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), IX, p. 405, X, pp.77, 406) as lOsteocella septentrionalis'' from the west 

 coast of America, and others similar as « Ostcoc. cliffoiii ■, possibly from West- Australia. Thus the 

 genera Halipteris and Pavonaria are probably rather wideh- distributed in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. 



Fam. FuniciilinidcB Koll., emend. 



Fiiniculina Lam. 



Funiculina quadrangularis (Pall.). 



Pcnnatula qiiadrajigitlaris Pallas'). Elenchus Zoophyt. 1766, p. 372. 

 Pavonaria antennina Cuvier. Regne animal. 1817, Vol. IV p. 85. 

 Funiealina tefragoi/a Lamarck. Anim. s. vert. Vol. II, 1816, p. 423. 



» quadrangularis Koll. Monogr. 1872, p. 256. 



Leptoptilnin graeile Koh. (Rep. Chall. Penn. 1880, p. 27, PI. VII, Fig. 28). 



» var. norvegieiiin Kor. & Dan. Bergens IMus. Nye Alcyonider. 1883, p. 29, PI. XIII. 



Funicidina am/a la \'errill. Am. J. Sc. (3) Vol. 17, 1879, p. 240 and Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. \'oI. XI, 1883, 



p. 6, PI. I, Fig. 4. 



South of Iceland the Ingolf> has obtained a young specimen of a length of 225"™; the length 

 of the peduncle cannot be decided with certainty-, as the soft parts of the lower part of the rhachis 

 have been scraped off; otherwise the specimen is very well-preserved; the polyp-calyxes up to 3.5""" 

 long. In appearance it is strikingly similar to the Trichoptilnm briinnenin of KoUiker (Rep. Chall. 

 Penn. PI. VIII, fig. 31), and agrees also with the Leptoptilum graeile var. iiorvegieuin of Koren and 

 Danielssen 1. c. PI. XIII. The polyp-calyxes are richly provided with spicules, the arrangement of 

 which quite agrees with fig. 3 of PI. XIII of the last-mentioned work; again, the tentacles are also 



I) Bohadsch is stated by KoUiker to be the author who has given the earliest description of the species in: De 

 qui,sbusdam .\niniahbus Marinis, etc. Dresdse 1761. Here it is mentioned, chap. VI, p. loi under /-fe««(7., as no. 3, P. riibescciis 

 ( pinnis carens, tentacuhs in corporis trunco positis ) and p. 112 as a species neglected b}- science, but known to fishermen 

 who called it Penna del pesce pavone . His specimen which was incomplete, was of a length of 2 feet 10 inches (. multo 

 vero longiorem eam fuisse non dubito), and has probably been from tlie Mediterranean (Naples? from which locality he has 

 several things 1. However, I have found this species mentioned as early as 1655 in Museum Wormianum p. 235: • I'ennie 

 marinae nomine ad me transmissum ex Norv-egia corpus graeile, oblongum, cartilagineum, quadrangulum, interior substantia 

 albicantg. quodammodo extremitatem pennae anserinse plumis denudatte referens, exterius membrana sublutea tectum. Tenuis 

 licet sit ha;c penna. crassitie extremitatem pennte anserine non superans, longitudine tamen aeqvat tres pedes Romanos. 

 Nullam \-ideo habere affinitatem cum Penna marina a Gesnero, Rondeletio, Aldrovando & aliis descripta, ut quo referam vix 

 habeam; hie interim locum obtineat. donee comodior detur . 



The Ingolf-Iixpeditioii. V. i. 7 



