60 VERRILL, SYNOPSIS CXF 



the length of the base and two-thirds the diameter of the 

 oval disk ; in contraction a flat disk. Tentacles long, 

 slender, tapering, subequal, arranged in two or three con- 

 fused rows around the margin, the exterior ones some- 

 what smaller and more crowded. Mouth usually raised 

 on a considerably elevated, broad cone, the lips with 

 about eight strongly marked folds on each side and a sul- 

 cus at each end. Longest diameter of base two inches. 



Color of column pale brownish, longitudinally lined 

 with white. Tentacles pale brownish yellow, shaded with 

 blackish about the middle. Mouth brownish within, the 

 lips bright green with yellow grooves. Disk brownish 

 yellow, radiated with blackish. One specimen varied 

 from the usual coloration, in having the parts about the 

 mouth pure, transparent white. 



Near Hong Kong, China, only on the back of Dorippe 

 facchino ( ?) which was common in six fathoms, mud, 

 April, 1854. Dr. William Stimpson. 



SUBFAMILY, BUXODIN^E. 



Actinines verruqueuses Edw. and Haime, Corall., I, p. 2G3, 1857. 

 Family, Bunodi<>ce Gosse, 1858; Actinologia Britannica, p. 183, 1860. 

 Family, Cerece Duch. and Mich., Supl. Corall. des Antilles, in Mem. 

 Reale Accad., XXIII, p. 124 (30), 1866. 



Sides of column with permanent verrucse or suckers, 

 which are either rounded or concave at summit, usually 

 imperforate, but in some cases some of them are perforate 

 and emit a jet of water when the body suddenly con- 

 tracts. Tentacles usually numerous, elongated and thick ; 

 mostly contractile. Basal disk well developed. 



BUNODES Gosse. 



Bunodes Gosse, Trans. Linn. Soc., XXI, p. 274, 1855; Actinologia 

 Britannica, p. 189. 



Cereus (pars) Edw. and Haime, Coralliaires, I, p. 263, 1857 (non 

 Oken). 



Anthopleura (pars) Duch. and Mich., Supl. Corall. des Antilles, p. 31, 

 1864 (not of 1860). 



Bunodes Verrill, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., I, p. 15, 1864; 

 Trans. Conn. Acad., I, p. 467, 1869. 



