Indian Deep-sea Dredging. 449 



Two specimens from Station 1 10, 405 fathoms, and one 

 from Station 120, 240 to 27G fathoms. 



CU\ss ANTHOZOA. 

 Subclass ALCYONIOMORPHA. 

 Order PENN AT ULIDA. 



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

 Pennatula was obtained j it is of a remarkable rich orange 

 colour, the ])ignient being insoluble in alcohol. 



At the same Station was dredged a large specimen of an 

 Umhelhda near to U. Carpenteri^ Kolliker. 



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

 an Unihellala of a bright pink colour occurred. 



Subclass ACTINIOMORPHA. 

 Order A C T I N I A K I A. 



Family Actinidae. 



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 peristome, from the mud of the 

 Bay of Bengal. 



Order M A DR E P OR A RI A. 



MADREPORARIA APOROSA. 

 Family Turltinolidse. 

 Flabellum, Lesson. 



1. Flahellum japonicum, Moseley. 



FlaheUumj(t2)onkum, Moseley, * Clialleiigei- ' Deep-sea Madreporaria, 

 p. 168, pi. vii. tigs. 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 corallura is wide and shallow, 

 with the primary and secondary costaj well marked, the colu- 

 mella abundant and formed of contorted fascicles, the fifth 



