C6 VERRILL, SYNOPSIS OF 



species (Cladactis? granuliferaVevYiW) with verrucas that 

 are neither perforated nor adhesive, and another (Buno- 

 des pallida V.) in which they are adhesive but not perfo- 

 rated. The latter appears to agree in all respects with 

 Bunodes, and differs generically from A. Krebsii D. and 

 M. , which was the original type of the genus. As the 

 genus is characterized in the later work it does not differ 

 essentially from Bunodes. 



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ANTHOPLEURA STIMPSONII Verrill, sp. nov. 



Base well developed, as wide as, or wider than, the 

 column, which is elongated, cylindrical in expansion, but 

 capable of contracting into a subglobular form. Suckers 

 numerous, the upper ones elongated papilliform, crowded, 

 becoming less prominent downward ; those more than a 

 quarter of an inch from the margin verruciform, with 

 concave summits, not crowded, forming regular vertical 

 rows, which are mostly traceable to or below the middle, 

 when they gradually disappear ; some of them, however, 

 extend to the base, where they become distant and 

 scarcely prominent. Tentacles nearly equal, about sixty- 

 four in number, in three rows, which crowd upon each 

 other. In the first are eight prominent ones, in the sec- 

 ond twenty-four, alternating by threes with those of the 

 first row, in the outer row thirty-two, alternating with 

 those of the other rows. Disk not very broad. The 

 largest specimen, partially contracted in alcohol, is about 

 one inch in diameter and two high ; tentacles nearly .5 

 of an inch long. When living it doubtless becomes, in 

 expansion, several inches higher and more slender. 



Color of column pale, with a sand-colored epidermis. 

 Mouth and disk fawn-color, with two large flake-white 

 spots indicating the antero-posterior diameter. Tentacles 

 of a pale whitish hue, spotted on the inside with broad 

 flake-white blotches at the outer side of the base of each 

 tentacle of the inner row, and at the inner base of the two 

 adjacent outer tentacles. 



Hong Kong harbor, in the fourth region of the littoral 

 zone, attached to stones far beneath the surface of the 



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