150 VEREILL, CLASSIFICATION 



Eltpsammta Stimpsonii Yerrill. 



Coral free, elongated, turbinated, blunt at base. Calicle 

 oval, deep ; columella well developed, septa broad, the 

 principal ones with entire inner- edges, rounded. Length 

 an inch or more ; breadth of cell .30 



Interesting as a living representative of a genus 

 hitherto known only in the fossil state. 



North China Sea. Dr. Win. Stimpson. 



Meteidium fimbriatum Verrill. 



A species closely allied to 31.' marginatum of this coast, 

 but apparently more elongated, with longer and more 

 slender tentacles which are almost hair-like. Disk within 

 the tentacles narrow. " Color pale orange, translucent, 

 body punctate with dark brown, mouth deep orange." 



San Francisco, Cal. Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



Phellia collaeis Verrill. 



Edwardsia collaris Stimpson, Proc. Philad. Acad. Nat. Science, May 

 and June, 1855. 



A species remarkable for its great size compared with 



previously known species from Europe. 



Hong Kong, China. Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



Phellia clavata Verrill. 



Edwardsia clavata Stimpson, 1. c. 1855. 

 A species even larger than the last. 

 Near Ousima, Japan. Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



Ammonactis nov. gen. 



Column elongated, s^ubcylindrical, with well developed 

 basal disk, covered, as in Phellia, with a persistent epidermis 

 extending to near the summit, naked above ; but differs in 

 having a lobe-like tubercle below each tentacle, distinct 

 from the margin. Tentacles long and numerous. 



