220 A. EF. Verrill—Marine Fauna of New England. 
Among the other Spree Pennatulacea is Anthoptilum 
Murrayi K,, which was dredged several times in 640 to 1362 
fathoms. It was first site off Nova Scotia by the Challenger. 
was associated, i me cases, with the much larger 
liker as a Thomsoni from ee ig dredged by the Challenger 
off epi Aryes, in 600 fathom 
he Gorgonacea are rentenaited by — fine species, some 
of saan conspicuous on account of their large size and bright 
colors. The bush- Tike Acanella Novia ani, as usual in deh 
water, occurred abundantly. Lepidisis caryophyllia V., which 
grows in the form of tall, slender, unbranched stems, often two 
or three feet high, with ‘long, hollow, calcareous joints, alter-_ 
nating with short horny ones, and with very long spiny cali- 
les, occurred alive several times, in 1098 to 1735 fathoms, and 
dead in many localities, where its joints are very abundant on 
the bottom and afford solid support for the attachment of other 
species of Anthozoa, etc. Fine living specimens of Acantho- 
gorgia armata V. were taken in 407 to 640 fathoms, and a 
131 fathoms. A very elegant plumose coral, the Dasygorgia 
Agassizit V., which has a slender, iridescent, calcareous axis, 
with the main branches spirally arranged zi the large pve 
obliquely seated, was dredged in 1846 to 1362 fathoms. It 
belongs to a peculiar deep-sea family, Ghepeondctides souls 
established by me for this and yee related _— nearly all 
of them elegant in form and colors. A new genus, belonging 
to this family, was dredged in 858 to 1735 fathoms (Lepidogorgia 
gracilis).+ 
* Blake sialon a gutting Mus. er Zool, xi, P. be 1883. 
mpm Axis simple, ir ridescent, with calcareous, ramose 
toots; polyp-ce Site ies Seana: cbigue, cavarad with aire aches ccenenchyma thin, 
cov vered bi at all oan Home 
gia graci re tall, slender, terete, tapering to a flexible tip; 
roots large, thick, irregulériy but see arbore escently branched, the branc chlets 
Po 
A po on 
between polyps, 5 to 10™™, Station 2072, off George’ s Bank, in 858 8 fa thoms ; 
stations 2036 and 2037, in 1735 aa 1731 fathoms. A large lot from station 
2037. 
