[33] ALBATROSS EXPLORATIONS. 535 



Epizoantlms Americanus Verrill (encrusting variety). 

 B. range, 49 to 906 fathoms, 1883. Abundant. 



Epizoanthus paguripMlus Yerrill. 1882. Fig. 28. 



B. range, 252 to 640 fathoms (499 fathoms, 1883), Abundant locally. 

 This large species, in all cases observed, has formed the carcinoecia of 



Parapagurus pilosimamis. The surface is smooth and glaucous, dark 

 bluish gray in alcohol, and often partly covered with fine mud. 



Epizoanthus abyssorum Yerrill. 1885. Fig. 27. 

 B. range, 1,555 to 2,033 fathom^ 1883. Common. 



This species generally forms the carcinoecia of Parapagurus pilosi- 

 mamis, but sometimes consists of two or three large obconic polyps 

 arising from a grain of sand. In the former case there are four to six 

 divergent marginal polyps, usually with an odd one above and beneath. 

 The polyps are large, usually clavate in contraction, with twenty-four 

 convergent ridges at the summit. The surface is closed covered with 

 small foraminifera, mixed with some sand grains. Color grayish white, 

 purple or orange tinted at summit. Length of largest polyps, in con- 

 traction, 10 to IS'^'"; diameter, 9 to ll""™. 



MADEEPOEAHIA. 



Flabelhm Goodei Verrill. 1878. Fig. 14. 



B. range, 75 to 888 fathoms, 1883. Common. 

 Flahellum angulatum Moseley. Fig. 15. 



B. range. 906 to 1,467 fathoms, 1883. ifot common; local. 

 Caryopliyllia communis (Segueuza) Moseley. Fig. 16. 



B. range, 1,022 to 1,106 fathoms, 1883. Not common; local. 



Paracyathus granulosus Verrill. 1885. 



B. range, 1,091 fathoms, 1883. Not common. 

 Dasmosmilia Lymani Pourt. 1871. Fig. 17. 



B. range, 65 to 179 fathoms, 1883. Common locally. 

 Oculina implicata Verrill. 1864. 



B. range, 14 fathoms, off Cape Hatteras, 1883. 



SPECIES PREVIOUSLY DREDGED BY THE ''FISH HAWK" 1880 TO 1882, BUT 

 NOT OBTAINED IN 1883. 



Pennatula aculeata, var. alba Verrill. 1883. 



B. range, 216 fathoms, 1882. Very rare. 

 Virgularia Ljungmani Koll.? (young.) 



B. range, 487 fathoms, 1880. Rare. 

 4-nthotJiela grandiflora (Sars) Verrill. 



B. range, 255 fathoms, station 1031, 1881, Local; commoiJi off Nova 

 Scotia. 



