62 VEERILL, SYNOPSIS OF 



BuNODES Japonica Vemll, sp. nov. 



Column with very prominent warts or verrucae ; when 

 contracted tal?;ing the form of a thin flesliy membrane, 

 with verrucse arranged around a central depression. Ten- 

 tacles arranged in two rows, so crowded as to encroach on 

 each other and placed very near the margin of the disk ; 

 twelve are more prominent than the rest and nearer the 

 mouth. Disk broad, flat. Mouth small. 



Color variable, but generally uniform on all parts of the 

 same specimen. Some are dark green, others olive, ver- 

 milion, or dark red. One was radiated with two colors. 



Hakodadi Bay, Island of Jesso, Japan, on stones at 

 and just below low-water mark, June, 1855. Dr. Wil- 

 liam Stimpson. 



Urticina Ehrenberg. 



JJrticina Elir., Corall. des rothea Meeres, p. 33, 1834. 



Tealia Gosse, Aim. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, I, p. 417, 1858; Actinologia 

 Britaiuiica, p. 205, 1860. 



Bhodactinia Agassiz, Comptes-rendus, XXV, p. 677, 1847 (without 

 description) ; Verrill, Revision Polyps, E. Coast U. S., p. 18, 1864. 



Cereus (pars) Edwards and Haiine, Corall., I, p. 2G3 (non Oken). 



Urticina Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. I, p. 469, 1869. 



Column low and broad, with a more or less distinct fold 

 below the tentacles. Surface covered with small, scat- 

 tered, often inconspicuous verrucse, which are sometimes 

 adhesive, but not perforate. Tentacles numerous, large, 

 stout, contractile, or at least partially so. Mouth with 

 large folds, often everted, and exposing the stomach. 



Urticina crassicornis Ehrenberg, op. cit., p. 33. 



Cereus coriaceus Edw. and Haime, I, p. 264, PI. 1, C. I, fig. 4. 

 Tealia crassicornis Gosse, Actin. Brit., p. 209, PI. IV, fig. 1, 1860. 

 Bhodactinia Davisii Agassiz, 1. c, p. 677, 1847. 



Numerous very large specimens, which do not appear to 

 differ from the common European and north Atlantic form, 

 were brought home by the Expedition. These were col- 

 lected by Captain Roclgers in Behring's Straits and the 

 Arctic Ocean. Specimens having the same appearance 

 were obtained in Puget Sound by Dr. C. B. Kennerly. 



