6 BULLETIN OF THE 
List of specimens dredged by the Blake in 1878-80 :— 
Station. Fathoms. Locality. Specimens. 
173 734 Off Guadeloupe. 1 medium size. 
325 647 N. Lat. 33° 35’ 20”, W. Long. 76° 1 good size. 
329 603 Bo a ae Se “3 facia a ke 
Taken also by the U.S. Fish Commission, off Martha’s Vineyard, in 302 
to 310 fathoms. Its color, in life, is usually deep salmon-brown, but varies to 
pale salmon, and even to yellowish white. 
The Gloucester fishermen have presented to the U.S. Fish Commission 
, about forty specimens, in twenty lots. These are from near the Grand Bank, 
St. Peter's Bank, Western Bank, Banquereau, Sable Island Bank, and Le Have 
Bank, in 85 to 300 fathoms. 
In the Zodlogy of the Challenger,* Dr. Kélliker described A. Thomsoni, 
from off Buenos Ayres, in 600 fathoms. It is a large species, apparently iden- 
tical in all respects with my species, from off Nova Scotia and New England. 
Funiculina armata VERRILL. 
Funiculina armata Verritt, Amer. Jour. Sci., X VII., 1879, p. 240; XXTII., 1882, 
pp- 812, 315. 
Plate I. Figs. 4, 4a, 4b. 
Rachis long, slender, with large, urcolate, rigid, spiculose polyp-calicles, 
armed at the aperture with eight sharp, divergent, spiculose points. Axis and 
rachis quadrangular, the sides of the axis concave. The polyp-calicles are 
entirely separate and arranged in numerous irregular, transverse clusters, of two 
to four smaller and larger ones intermingled; they are so stiffened by spicula 
as to be scarcely flexible, and retain well their form; they are elongated, swell- 
ing out gradually from near the base, and tapering again above the middle, to 
near the summit, which suddenly expands to the edge, from which eight acute, 
rigid, white points diverge. The tentacles are spiculose, but wholly retractile 
within the calicles ; they are situated between the divergent points of the cali- 
cles, in expansion. 
The zodids are scattered along the middle of the polypiferous side of the 
rachis, and also between the rows of polyps ; they are prominent and rather 
large, though much smaller than the polyps, contracted at the base and en- 
larged at the end, with eight rudimentary tentacles. 
Stem light brownish yellow or buff at base, becoming orange-brown or dark 
purplish above; calicles dark reddish brown or deep purple, the whitish 
spicula visible in eight chevron lines; zoéids pale yellow or light salmon 
with purplish stripes ; tentacles dark brownish red. 
* The Zodlogy of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, Vol. I. Part Il, Report 
on the Pennatulida, by Professor Albert V. Kolliker, 1880. 
