240 A. E. Verrilli—Marine Fauna of North America. 
base that they form only very rudimentary als, while in some 
states of contraction they appear entirely disunited. The rows 
are rather distant on the same side, and on opposite sides alter- 
nate irregularly, and the dorsal members of adjacent rows 
intermingle or overlap, while the polyps in the middle region 
usually stand alternately farther forward and farther back in 
the same row, while the most ventral one is usually placed 
farther toward the ventral side in each alternate row; the 
more than usual, usually interrupt these belts. No calcareous 
spicula were found in the polyps or ccenenchyma. Color of the 
rachis and polyp-cells brownish yellow, in alcohol; tentacles 
dark brownish red. 
Length, 8350™; of naked peduncle, 60™; diameter of bulb 
of latter, 10™; of narrow portion, 5™™; of rachis, 5 to gm; 
of axis, 15™; diameter of largest polyp-cells, 87"; their 
length, 5™"; length of tentacles, 6 to 7™™ or more. 
Taken on a trawl line, in 220 to 260 fathoms, lat. 42° 46’; 
long. 63° 45’, by the crew of the schooner “‘ Laura Nelson,” Capt. 
R. N. Morrison. This is a very handsome and remarkable 
species, of which only a single specimen has been obtained. 1t 
‘differs widely from the previously described species of Virgula- 
via, and approaches Kolliker’s genus Halipéeris, in appearance, 
but differs in the character of the polyp-cells and in the absence 
of spicula. 
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