590 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxiv. 



Color. — Almost white throughout. Where the axis is bare it shows 

 a violet iridescence. 



The species is not far from '■'■Ghrysogorgia sp. ? " Versluys," with 

 which it agrees in the details of the polyp spicules. 



Type.— Cat. No. 25332, U.S.N.M., Albatross Station 4166, near 

 Bird Island, 293-800 fathoms. 



GHRYSOGORGIA ELEGANS (Verrill). 



Plate L, fig. 1. 

 Dasygorgia clcgans Verrill, Bull. Miis. Comp. Zool., XI, No. 1, 1883, p. 23. 



Several specimens referable to this species were secured. 



Distribution.— Between Molokai and Maui: Station 3866, 283-284 

 fathoms (Cat. No. 25339, U.S.N.M.). 



North coast of Molokai: Station 3911, 334-337 fathoms: Station 

 3917, 294^330 fathoms (Cat. No. 25338, U.S.N.M.). 



The material studied by Verrill was secured off Granada, 291 

 fathoms, and off Barbados, 237-347 fathoms. 



GHRYSOGORGIA FLEXILIS (Wright and Studer). 



Plate XLVI, fig. 1; plate L, fig. 6. 



Dasygorgia flexilis Wright and Studer, Report on the Alcyonaria collected 

 by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876, 1889, p. 10. 



Several fine colonies of this species were secured during the Ha- 

 waiian cruise. 



Distribution. — Between Molokai and Maui : Station 3868 ; 294-684 

 fathoms. (Cat. No. 25340 U.S.N.M.) 



Between Maui and Molokai: Station 3901, 280-311 fathoms (Cat. 

 No. 25341, U.S.N.M.). 



North coast of Molokai : Station 3925, 299-323 fathoms. 



The specimen from Station 3868 differs from the others in having 

 more slender polyps, and in having a brighter golden iridescence to 

 the distal parts of the denuded stem and branches. 



This species was collected by the Challenger off the coast of Chiloe, 

 at a depth of 120 fathoms. 



GHRYSOGORGIA LATA Versluys. 



Plate XLVI, fig. 2; plate LI, fig. 3. 



Chrysosgorgia lata Versluys, Die Gorgoniden der Siboga-Expedition, I, Die 

 Chrysogorgiidfe, 1902, p. 33. 



J)^ c^-T> : A beautiful colony, about 2 feet in height, was secured at Station 

 . r •N|^vv>>^4:137, off Kauai, 411^76 fathoms. 



Other localities. Station 3989, off Kauai, 385-500 fathoms, and Sta- 

 tion 4187, off Kauai, 508-703 fathoms. (Cat. No. 25387, U.S.N.M.) 



"Die Gorgoniden der Siboga Expedition, I, Die Chrysogorgiidfe, 1902, p. 78. 



