CHARACTERISTIC DEEP-SEA TYPES. — HOLOTHURIANS. 87 
Huge species of Elasipoda were found in great numbers at 
several stations beyond 1,000 fathoms. The same species were 
also dredged by the U. S. Fish Commission, and the drawings 
here given of the gigantic Benthodytes and Euphronides I owe 
to the kindness of the Fish Commissioner, Professor Baird. 
Benthodytes (Fig. 344) is flat below, convex above, of a trans- 
Fig. 344. — Benthodytes gigantea, ¿. (U.S. F. €.) 
lucent appearance, but of considerable consisteney when fresh. 
It was most difficult to preserve these huge holothurians in al- 
cohol, and the specimens sent to Dr. Théel were too imperfect 
for study. Euphronides (Fig. 345) resembles Benthodytes in 
Pg ji 
Fig. 345. — Euphronides cornuta. 2. (U. S. F. C) 
general outline, but in profile is higli, slopes anteriorly and pos- 
teriorly, and has a lobed posterior appendage and a series of ap- 
pendages placed in pairs on the bevel of the anterior extremity. 
Tt is of a reddish brown color. 
