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Ammonactis rubpjcollum Verrill. 



Edwardsia rubricollum Stimpson, 1. c. 1855. 

 Hong Kong, China. Dr. Wm. Stirnpson." 



Halocampa brevicorxis Verrill. 



Edwardsia brevicomis Stimpson, 1. c. 1855. 

 Hong Kong, China. Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



Halocampa capensis Verrill. 



Body elongated, tentacles twenty, blunt ; ambulacra 

 subpapillose. Six tentacles have their inner bases dark 

 brown ; body pale reddish with dots and patches of flake 

 white; inner side of tentacles flake white. 



Cape of Good Hope, 12 fathoms, sand. Dr. William 

 Stimpson. 



Cerianthus orientalis Verrill. 



A large species similar to C. americana nobis. Body 

 elongated, in a tube of mud. Tentacles long and slender. 

 Color of body deep reddish brown, outer tentacles 

 translucent, yellowish and white, pale brown on their 

 inner sides, greenish at base ; inner ones purplish brown 

 or sometimes grass green. 



At low water mark, Hong Kong, China. Dr. William 

 Stimpson. 



Nephthya thyrsoidea Verrill. 



Polyps forming thyrsiform bunches of closely clustered 

 branchlets, three inches high and two broad. Color wine- 

 yellow or light brown, with a dark purplish tinge below the 

 tentacles ; tentacles nearly white ; spicula forming eleva- 

 ted, transverse lines of silvery white on the stalks. 



Cape of Good Hope, 20 fathoms, rocks. Dr. Wm. Stimp- 

 son. 



Telesto ramiculosa Verrill. 



Cornularia aurantiaca Stimpson, 1. c. 1855, non. T. aurantiaca Lamx. 



Hong Kong, 10 fathoms, shelly bottom. Dr. Wm. 

 Stimpson. 



