POLYPS AND CORALS. 325 



two rows, with twice as many in the outer as in the inner. 

 The inner ones alternating with every second interval 

 between the outer ones. Mouth broad, oval ; borders 

 wrinkled. 



Column, upon the naked space below the tentacles, 

 bright salmon-red ; tentacles transparent fawn-color ; disk 

 pale yellow with a dark ring around the base of each 

 tentacle ; inside of mouth deep red. Height about four 

 inches in expansion. 



Harbor of Hong Kong, attached to stones or shells, 

 beneath coarse sand, through which they rise to expand 

 the tentacles at the surface. Dr. Win. Stimpson. 



PHELLIA Gosse, Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 

 Vol. II, p. 193. 



Capnea Duch. and Mich., Supl. Corall. des Antilles, p. 127, 1865, 

 (non Forbes). 







Column partly covered with a persistent epidermal 

 layer, upper part naked, smooth ; sometimes with a few 

 loop-holes. Margin simple, neither tuberculated nor 

 papillose. Tentacles marginal, in more than one row, 

 not numerous, subequal, or the inner ones considerably 

 longest, outer ones sometimes with constrictions. Disk 

 simple, concave. 



PHELLIA INEQUALIS Verrill, sp. nov. 

 Plate 3, figures 4, 4a, 41). 



Column much elongated, somewhat worm-like, almost 

 entirely covered with a brownish, persistent epidermis, 

 lightest below, which shows irregular longitudinal lines ; 

 a narrow naked space just below the tentacles. Tentacles 

 about forty, slender, the twenty internal ones are consid- 

 erably longer than the twenty composing the outer row ; 

 the latter are very short, and have three constrictions. 



In life the internal tentacles are brownish, tipped with 

 vermilion ; external ones pale, with three white rings at 

 the constrictions. 



