62 VERRILL, SYNOPSIS OF 



BUNODES JAPONICA Verrill, sp. nov. 



Column with very prominent warts or verrucas ; when 

 contracted taking the form of a thin fleshy membrane, 

 with verrucas arranged around a central depression. Ten- 

 tacles arranged in two rows, so crowded as to encroach on 

 each other and placed very near the margin of the disk ; 

 twelve are more prominent than the rest and nearer the 

 mouth. Disk broad, flat. Mouth small. 



Color variable, but generally uniform on all parts of the 

 same specimen. Some are dark green, others oliVe, ver- 

 milion, or dark red. One was radiated with two colors. 



Hakodadi Bay, Island of Jesso, Japan, on stones at 

 and just below low-water mark, June, 1855. Dr. Wil- 

 liam Stimpson. 



URTICINA Ehrenberg. 



Urtmna Ehr., Corall. des rothen Meeres, p. 33, 1834. 



Tealia Gosse, Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, I, p. 417, 1858; Actinologia 

 Britannica, p. 205, 18(50. 



Bhodactinia Agassiz, Coraptes-rendus, XXV, p. 677, 1847 (without 

 description) ; Verrill, Revision Polyps, E. Coast U. S., p. 18, 1864. 



Cereus (pars) Edwards and Haime, Corall., I, p. 2G3 (non Oken). 



Urticina Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. I, p. 469, 1869. 



Column low and broad, with a more or less distinct fold 

 below the tentacles. Surface covered with small, scat- 

 tered, often inconspicuous verrucas, which are sometimes 

 adhesive, but not perforate. Tentacles numerous, large, 

 stout, contractile, or at least partially so. Mouth with 

 large folds, often everted, and exposing the stomach. 



URTICINA CRASSICORNIS Ehrenberg, op. cit., p. 33. 



Cereus coriaceus Edw. and Haime, I, p. 264, PI. 1, C. I, fig. 4. 

 Tealia crassicornis Gosse, Actin. Brit., p. 209, PI. IV, fig. 1, 1860. 

 Rhudactinia Davisii Agassiz, 1. c., p. 677, 1847. 



Numerous very large specimens, which do not appear to 

 differ from the common European and north Atlantic form, 

 were brought home by the Expedition. These were col- 

 lected by Captain Eodgers in Behring's Straits and the 

 Arctic Ocean. Specimens having the same appearance 

 were obtained in Puget Sound by Dr. C. B. Kennerly. 



