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The few specimens obtained from off our northern coasts are of the typical 
variety, and some are of large size, but all that I have seen were dead, though 
evidently recent. 
Dasmosmilia Lymani Pourratés. 
Parasmilia Lymani Pourrarés, Illustrated Catalogue Mus. Comp. Zool., 1871, 
p. 20, pl. 6, figs. 8, 9, 10. 
VerRRILL, Amer. Jour. Sci., XXIII., 1882, pp. 316, 406 (reproduction from frag- 
ments described). 
Dasmosmilia Lymani Pourtarés, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl., VI., 1880, p. 108. 
This species was taken in considerable numbers by the U. 8. Fish Commis- 
sion Steamer Fish Hawk, in 57 fathoms, off Chesapeake Bay, 1880; off Mar- 
tha’s Vineyard, in 100 to 130 fathoms, 1881. 
It was dredged by Mr. Pourtalés, while on the Bache, in 70 to 147 fath- 
oms, off the Florida Reefs. : 
Flabellum Goodei VerRiLt. 
Flabellum Goodet Verritt, Amer. Jour. Sci., XVI., 1878, p.877; XXIII, 1882, 
pp. 313, 316, 407. 
Plate V. Figs. 3, 4. 
In life the color of the disk and tentacles is rich salmon; lips darker salmon, 
with stripes of dark purplish brown, or sometimes uniform madder-brown. 
The larger tentacles are stout, tapered, subacute. 
This species has been taken in large numbers, but in most cases badly 
crushed, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Fish Hawk, off Nantucket 
and Martha’s Vineyard, in 219 to 780 fathoms, and off Chesapeake Bay, in 300 
fathoms, 1880 to 1882. 
It was first obtained by the Gloucester halibut fishermen in deep water off 
Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, in 180 to 400 fathoms, 1878. Several addi- 
tional specimens, from that region, have since been presented by them to the 
U.S. Fish Commission, 
This species is very closely related to Flabellum alabastrum Moseley,* 
dredged by the Challenger Expedition, off the Azores. The latter has been 
identified by Lindstrém (Actinology of the Atlantic Ocean, p. 12) with the 
Ulocyathus arcticus Sars, and the fossil Phyllodes laciniatum Philippi. 
Our species grows to very large size; some specimens are 120 mm. long, 
43 mm. broad, 80 mm. high. 
* Proc. Royal Soc. London, 1876, p. 555; and Zodlogy of the Voyage of the 
Challenger, Part VII. Report on the Corals, 1881, p. 169, pl.7, figs. 1-2 b, pl. 16, 
fig. 11. 
