108 ACTINIANS FROM THE BAHAMA ISLANDS 



Family DENDROMELID^E 



In my earlier paper ('89) on West Indian Actiniaria I proposed a 

 new subtribe Dendromelinae for the reception of the peculiar form 

 Lebrunea neglecta discovered by Duchassaing and Michelotti ('60) 

 and proposed to place in it also the genus Ophiodiscus described by 

 R. Hertwig ('82). Since that time I have come to the conclusion that 

 I gave the group too high a mark and have suggested ('93) its reduction 

 to a family of the subtribe Actininae. With the two forms already men- 

 tioned it seems that a third should be associated, namely, the Hoplo- 

 phoria coralligens described by H. V. Wilson ('90), which, as I have 

 already pointed out elsewhere ('93), seems to be identical with the 

 Viatrix globulifera described by Duchassaing and Michelotti ('60). 



Lebrunea neglecta Duch. & Mich, i860 



A single specimen of this form was in the collection, and being 

 unwilling to injure it, I have nothing to add to the description of the 

 structure given in my earlier paper. It may be stated, however, that 

 the number of pseudotentacles is in this individual six, just as they 

 were in the other specimens examined; one, however, is considerably 

 smaller than the others. 



Family PHYLLACTID^ 

 Diplactis bermudensis McMurrich. 1889 



This species I described ('89a) originally from alcoholic specimens 

 from the Bermudas and was pleased to find it represented in the 

 present collection by several specimens, together with a drawing (here 

 reproduced in pi. xvii, fig. 3) and a description of the living animal. 

 I have nothing to add to my original account of the anatomical char- 

 acteristics of the species, but am able to complete it by abstracting 

 from Dr. Northrop's notes a description of the coloration and form of 

 the living animal. 



The column is chocolate-brown in color, and when the animal is 

 expanded, has a greater diameter at the base and at the upper part 

 than in the middle of its length, the upper part forming a slight parapet 

 projecting above the level of the disk. The tentacles are brownish red 

 in color and the disk rufous, that is to say, somewhat paler than the 

 tentacles. The papillae which represent the fronds Dr. Northrop 



