NO. 1658. ALCYONARIA OF THE CALIFORNIA^ COAST— NUTTING. 705 



The color of the polyps- and calyces is chocolate brown, the swell- 

 ing yellowish brown, and the end bulb dark reddish brown. 



Type-specimen.— Csit. No. 254^6, U.S.N.M. 



Distribution.— Staitioji(^^ Soledad Hill, Point La Jolla, S. 59 °E. 

 5.6 miles, 280-243 fathoms; Station ;^33) Point Loma light-house 

 N. 27° E. 12.2 miles, 301 fathoms; Station 443By Brockway Point, 

 Santa, Rosa Island, S. 10° E. 7.5 miles, 265-243 fathoms; Station 

 ^l|^>oiiit Pinos light-house S. 31° E. 9.3 miles, 456-389 fathoms; 

 Staii^ir45fg> Point Pinos light-house S. 49° E. 12.5 miles, 756 

 fathoms; Stationr45372JPoin4 Pinos light-house S. 74° E. 7.4 miles, 

 1,062 fathoms; StatioQ 453MPoint Pinos light-house S. 85° E. 6.5 

 miles, 871-795 fathoms; Station^ 4547) Point Pinos light-house S. 

 82° E. 10.5 miles, 1,083 fathoms (type-locality). 



Having examined a large number of specimens of this species from 

 the Californian coast, and having found them constant in having not 

 more than 5 polyps to each leaf (instead of from 8 to 15 as described 

 by Kolliker),® I have concluded that the species is clearly distinct 

 and given it the name Balticina pacifica. 



Pavonaria calif ornicaMoTO&^ is described as having polyps without 

 spicules, while P. dojleini Moroff has 11-14 polyps to the leaf, with no 

 spicules in the tentacles. 



BALTICINA FINMARCHICA (Sars). 



Virgularia finmarchica Sars, Fauna Lit. Norvegiae, II, 1856, p. 68. 



In the collection at Stanford University there are a series of six 

 specimens which were originally taken near Pacific Grove, California, 

 by Chinese fishermen, who secured them on their trawls in deep 

 water. These specimens apparently belong to this species. They 

 are much macerated and their characters are difficult to make out 

 with certainty. They differ from the preceding species, Balticina 

 pacifica, in having 12^15 calyces to a row and in less prominent 

 calycular teeth. 



The upper part of the rachis has anemones attached, each with a 

 ring-like stolon clasping the rachis, exactly as described by Verrill.'' 



Two other specimens in the same collection which are labeled 

 " Verrillia hlalcei, Barracuda Inlet, British Columbia," do not seem 

 to be fairly separable from this species. They are very large, one 

 of them being 50 inches long; the stem to rudimentar}?^ leaves 12 

 inches long; terminal bulb 5 inches long. The calyces are in roAvs 

 of 7 to 10. They are long, terete; margins with two low and incon- 



« Anatomisch-Systematische Beschreibung der Alcyonarien. Pt. 1. Die Penna- 

 tuliden, 1872, p. 239. 

 6 Zool. Jahrb., Abth.'Syst. Geog. und Biol. Thiere, XVII, 1902, p. 393. 

 « Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., XI, No. 1, p. 5. 

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