98 A. K Verrill on Ascidians from New England. 



a band of light orange bordered with darker orange-red, whiA 

 passes from each tube down the sides to the base ; a similar band 

 or spot generally exists between the bases of the tubes. Tlie 

 apertures are salmon-color inside, often surrounded by a delicate 

 circle of red, or in the darker specimens with a pale orange circle. 



The larger specimens from Eastport are often 3 inches high 

 in expansion, and 1 to 1-25 in diameter; diameter of the 

 branchial orifice "25 ; of anal IS of an inch. From the Banks 

 of New Foundland I have seen specimens 8 inches in diameter, 



Massachusetts Bay, — A. E. Verrill; Eastport and Grand 

 Manan, from near extreme low-water mark of spring tides, 

 under and among stones, to 50 fathoms, shelly and stony, com- 

 mon,— Expeditions of 1859, '63, '64, '68, 70 ; Off Head Harbor, 

 80 to 120 fathoms, gravelly and shelly bottoms, common,- 

 Exp. 1870 ; Grand Menan,— Stimpson ; Str. Belle Isle, Labrador, 

 —Packard ; Banks of New Foundland,— C. Foster, T. M. Coffin; 

 Greenland,— Moller, Liitken ; Norway,— Kathke, Sars. 

 Cynthia pulchella, sp. nov. 



Body subglobular, attached by a small base. Test firm, 

 opaque, smoothish, covered with minute, flatish, slightly raised, 

 scarcely granular elevations, visible with a lens. Tubes slightly 

 raised, terminal, not very near together ; apertures small, square. 



nearly equal, 

 deep. 



alcohol, purplish or grayish white, the apertures 



Diameter 12 to -15 of an inch, probably young. 



Eastport 10 to 20 fathoms, shelly,— Exp. of 1870. 



The absence of rounded verruca and bristles on the test ^nll 

 readily distinguish this species from the last, which it otherwise 

 most resembles. 



Ascidia cmnplana/a Fabr. Figure 11. 

 Ascidia camplanata 0. Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 332, 1780; Gmelin, Syst 



t Ascidia orbicularis MiiUer, Zool. Danica, ii, p. 53. Tab. 19, figs. 1, 2, 1788 

 Ascidta callosa Stimpson, Proc. Boston Soc. N'at. Hist., iv, p. 228. 1852; In^". 

 Grand Manan, p. 19, 1853 ; Binney, op. cit., p. 26, pi. xxiii, tig. 318, 1870. 



Test thfbk but translucent, oval or elliptical, depressed, ad- 

 hering by the whole surface of the flattened left side ; upper side 

 slightly convex. In young specimens 

 less than an inch long, the form is 

 usually quite regular and the surface 

 smoothish, with slight irregular wrink- 

 les, more numerous around the tubes ; 

 in larger specimens the wrinkles become 

 deeper, more numerous, and the surface 

 correspondingly irregular and uneven, 



