56 VERRILL, SYNOPSIS OF 



the mouth. Tentacles pale brown, with spots of dark 

 brown and flake-white, in pairs. 



In alcohol contracted to a low cone. Mouth everted. 

 Tentacles not concealed, rather stout, conical. Column 

 strongly corrugated and uneven with raised portions. 

 Cinclidae not observed. 



Kagosima Bay, Japan, twenty fathoms, shelly bottom. 



Found in considerable numbers attached to a small 

 Pleurotoma, Jan., 1855. Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



SAGARTIA NIGROPUNCTATA Verrill. 



Actinia nigropunctata Stimpson, 1. c., p. 375, 1855. 



Plate 2, figures 2, 2a, 2b, 2c. 



Base expanded, broader than the column, which is 

 moderately elevated, subcylindrical, smooth, with five 

 longitudinal lines towards the base. Disk small, with the 

 long pointed tentacles arranged closely around the mar- 

 gin. Mouth small, oblong, with small folds on the 

 sides, and a spot at one end. Two of the tentacles, 

 corresponding with the long diameter of the mouth, 

 are longer than the others, and one of them has a flake- 

 white spot on each side of the base. Diameter .75 of an 

 inch. 



Color of body pale orange-yellow ; two rows of dis- 

 tant, small, black, alternating spots, ten in each row, 

 surround the column. Tentacles dark at the inner side 

 of base, forming a dark grayish ring around the disk. 



Ousima, Japan, in' crevices among rocks adhering to 

 stones, in the lower part of the littoral zone, generally 

 partly buried in gravel, January, 1855. Dr. William 

 Stimpson. 



In alcohol contracted to a low cone. Surface nearly 

 smooth. Tentacles only partially contracted, short, coni- 

 cal, pointed, much crowded. No cinclidse were observed, 

 but acontia protruded from the ruptured base of one 

 specimen. 



According to Dr. Stimpson "this species appears to 

 have little or no variation in its characters. It adheres 



