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of axis .35. When living, length 6.5 inches ; breadth 1.75 ; 

 polyps about .75, exsert. 



"Hong Kong Harbor, China, in 6 to 10 fathoms, mud, 

 March 1855 ; also in 24 fathoms, shelly sand, China Sea, 

 23 N. lat. April, 1855. Body whitish cream -colored ; pol- 

 yps transparent with an opaque digestive tube, bluish white 

 about the bases of the tentacles; base white, somewhat 

 longitudinally striated." Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



VERETILLUM BACULATUM Verrill, these Proc. p. 152, 

 April, 1865. 



Small, clavate, broadest near the upper end, which is 

 obtusely rounded ; polypiferous portion about one half the 

 whole length; naked basal portion elongated, pointed be- 

 low, in one specimen, with a distinct terminal pore; axis 

 small, fusiform, less than one half an inch long ; polyps 

 much smaller and more numerous than in the preceding. 



Length of the only specimen obtained 2 inches ; diame- 

 ter .3. 



Sea of Ochotsk, in 25 fathoms, taken Aug. 1855, by U. S. 

 Steamer "John Hancock," Capt. Stevens ; preserved by L. 

 M. Squires. 



KOPHOBELEMNON CLAVATUM Verrill, 1. c. page 152. 



Veretillum clavatiim Stimpson, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Vol. 

 7, p. 375, June, 1855. 



Plate 5, figures 4, 4&, 4b. 



Polyps large, the tentacles long and slender with oblong 

 lateral lobes ; surface of the body between the polyps, ir- 

 regularly papillose, variegated, punctate with orange and 

 spotted with brown ; basal portion white, with a pointed 

 extremity. Length 2 inches. 



Bay opposite Hong Kong, in 6 fathoms, mud, April, 

 1854. Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



This species is more claviform and has more crowded 

 polyps than K. Burgeri Herklotz. The naked dorsal space 

 is scarcely apparent, owing to the crowding of the polyps 

 towards it upon each side. 



