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Urticina consors V., sp. nov. 
A delicately colored species, with a soft, smooth integument. 
Column elongated, in expansion; above, occasionally showing 
sch aeate peer i 
outer ones much smaller. Mouth with strong, whitish, goni- 
dial grooves at both ends, and about ten lobes on each side, 
separated by darker grooves. Color of body nearly uniform 
salmon, or rosy; tentacles a paler shade of the same, the outer 
ones with a flake-white blotch at the base, outside; disk pale 
salmon, with a pale bluish tint, and with flake-white radii, 
forking at the tentacles; mouth bright orange inside, with lines 
of reddish brown on the lips. Height, about 2 inches; diam- 
eter, 1°d. 
All the specimens obtained were on the backs of a brilliant] 
colored species of hermit-crab (Parapagurus, sp. noy.), remark- 
able for large bright red patches on its legs; 160-458 fathoms. 
This species may not be a true Urticina. It resembles certain 
species of Sagartia, but no acontia were observed. 
Actinernus saginatus Verrill, sp. nov. 
A large species, with a broad, low column, having a pale, 
translucent, thick, soft, cartilaginous, or gelatinous test. e 
column is broader than high, largest above, smooth, or more or 
less wrinkled. Tentacles not crowded, in two rows, close to 
the margin, long, tapering, rather slender, acute, decidedly 
thickened at the base; the outer ones have the thickened, 
outer, basal swelling continuous with the edge of the disk. 
ase much smaller than the column, concave, secreting a 
chitinous pellicle and enclosing a mass of mud, as in JU. callosa. 
Color of column, pallid, or bluish white, with a tinge of pink; 
disk dee orange, with paler radii; lips deep orange-brown ; 
Adamsia sociabilis V., sp. nov. 
smali, conspicuously colored, abundant species, which is 
always found on the back of a small hermit-crab (Hemipagurus 
socials Smith). Color: column translucent, usually conspicu- 
ously striped with alternate pink and flake-white longitudinal 
ands, the latter narrowing upward ; tentacles pinkish ; mouth 
with pink lips, crossed by darker lines, between the small 
lobes, Height, in expansion, about ‘5 of an inch (10 to 14™™). 
Common in 86-300 fathoms, . 
