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The siphonozooids are small, papilliform, and form two broad rows along 

 the back of the rachis. KoUiker gives the length of one specimen as 283 mm. 

 and the breadth 45 to 50 mm. 



One example studied by me had 52 pinnae on each side; total length 250 

 mm., breadth 50 mm., height of pinnae 20 mm., breadth 38 mm., length of 

 stalk 118 mm., diameter 106 mm. 



The type was from Monterey, Cal. (Gray). Most specimens that I have 

 seen came from Puget Sound and adjacent waters. It has been taken off 

 Cape Flattery on fishing tackle. A single specimen, lacking the stalk, wa5 

 sent to me with the other Canadian specimens. This was from off Ucluelet, 

 west coast of Vancouver island, in 9 fathoms, collected by W. Spreadborough 

 in 1909. 



Professor W. R. Coe, on the Harriman Expedition, took a large and fine 

 specimen, a little below a very low tide at Orca, Prince WiUiam sound, Alaska. 

 It was standing upright in soft black mud. He stated that it was "gorgeously 

 coloured," the stalk being bright orange, and the polypiferous portion was 

 bright red. The colour soon fades in alcohol. 



This specimen has 44 wings on each side, counting the very small ones 

 at the proximal portion, where the first is only about 5 mm. broad, and the 

 second about 10 mm. about a dozen being small and gradually increasing. 

 (See PI. XII). 



Professor Coe states that it was very much longer and wider in life than 

 when preserved, especially the bulbous stalk. At present the stalk has a thick 

 bulbous part distally, but tapers to the lower end. 



In alcohol its length is 210 mm., breadth 60 mm., length of stalk 98 mm. 

 diameter at distal bulb 48 mm., of middle of stalk 35 mm., breadth of larger 

 wings 40 mm. and height of the same 22 mm. 



In this specimen some of the larger wings have a small secondary wing 

 growing out of the upper side and rising to the same height as the parent mng. 



When living the stalk was perhaps twice as long and much thicker, and 

 Professor Coe states that in life the wings are notably separated, but in alcohol 

 they lie in close contact. This specimen greatlj' extends its geographical range. 

 No doubt it occurs all along the coast of British Columbia. 



Family VIRGULARID^ Verrill, 1869. 



Stylatula columbiana Verrill. New Species. 



Plate III; Figs. l-4a. 



This species belongs to that section of the genus having short supporting 

 spicules, shorter than the polyp bodies. The only specimen is incomplete, 

 the naked basal part of the stem being al^sent. The portion remaining is 116 

 mm. long, and 5 to 6 mm. thick in the middle. 



The wings are relatively large and crowded, about four occur in the distance 

 of 10 mm., where best developed, or nine to the inch. They are about 5 to 6 

 mm. wide and 2-5 mm. high, and nearly surround the stalk, broadly over- 

 lapping from opposide sides. Each of the larger ones has al)out 20 to 24 polyps, 

 arranged in a crowded row. At the beginning of the polypiferous portion the 

 wings are small and crowded, about 10 to 10 mm. 



The polyps are relatively large, swollen distally, free for more than half 

 their length when fully developed, and grouped in clusters of two to six. 



The supporting spicules are short, forming a fan-shaped group, not reaching 

 a third of the width of the wings; none are truly spiniform, the larger ones are 

 scarcely more than 1 mm. long, and 0-06 to 0-065 mm. thick, while many are 

 not more than half as long, and they are linear, somewhat irregular in outline 



