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List of specimens dredged by the Blake, 1878-80 : — 
Station. Fathoms. Locality. Specimens. 
1878-79. Pe 
190 524 Off Dominique 1, good size. 
196 1030 Off Martinique 1 young. 
227 573 Off St. Vincent a 
265 576 Off Grenada eee \ 0 
1880. 
329 603 N. Lat. 34° 39’ 40”, W. Lon. 75°14’ 40” 33, mostly young. 
Family ALCYONID&. 
Eunephthya Litkeni (Marenz.) Verritt. 
Aleyonium glomeratum LitKEN, MSS. (non Johnston). 
Eunephthya glomerata VERRILL, Amer. Jour. Sci., XLVIL., 1869, p. 284; Proc. Essex 
Inst., VI., 1869, p. 97. 
Ammothea Liitkeni MARENZELLER, Denk. Akad. Wien, XXXV., 1878, p. 272 [16]. 
Alcyonium Liitkeni VeRRILx, Notice of Recent Addit. to Mar. Invert., Part L, in 
Proc. Nat. Mus., II., 1879, p. 200. 
Plate IV. Figs. 7, 7a. 
The main stem is upright, without polyps, giving off cylindrical branches 
along the sides; from these, small lateral branchlets arise all along the sides as 
well as at the ends, each bearing a cluster of three to five, or more, prominent 
polyp-calicles, which are larger than in A. carnewm, and, when contracted, are 
obovate, incurved, and show the bases of the eight tentacles as small terminal 
lobes. The surface or outer layer of the polyp-bodies and bases of the tenta- 
cles is filled and covered with spicula, so as to render them decidedly rough, 
rigid, and incapable of complete contraction. The calicles are more or less 
distinctly eight-ribbed; the stouter spicula project slightly in rough points 
along the ribs, while those in the intervals, which are more slender, fusiform 
and warted, are imbedded in the integument. 
The ccenenchyma is rather firm and stiff, due to the abundance of the spicula. 
The larger spicula (Fig. 7a, b) are rather large, long, stout, mostly club- 
shaped in form, with the smaller end thickly covered with small warts, and 
the large end covered with large, roughly lacerate warts, sometimes taking the 
form of ragged spinules, in other cases having the form of lacerate, flattened 
lobes; with these are some roughly warted fusiform spicula, of similar size 
(Fig. 7 a, c), and numerous smaller rough spicula, some of which are fusiform 
(Fig. 7a, d) and others club-shaped, some of them slender and others stout. 
Height, in alcohol, 60 to 80 mm. or more (about 3 inches); breadth, 35 to 
50 mm.; diameter of contracted calicles, 1 to 1:25 mm. 
One small specimen was dredged by the Blake, at Station 339, in 1186 
fathoms, off Delaware Ray. Several examples were dredged in 1877, off Hal- 
ifax, N. S., in 52 fathoms, by the U. 8. Fish Commission. Several good 
