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Bunodactis stella Verrill. 



Bunodes stella Verrill, Revis. Polyps E. coast of U. S , p. 16, pi. I, figs. 1-8, 

 1864; Amer. Naturalist, II, p. 258, 1868. 



Bunodes spectabilis Verrill, Check List Mar. Invert. N. New Eng., p. 15, 1879; 

 Cont. to Nat. Hist, of Arctic America, in Bulletin U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 15, p. 152, 

 1879 (non Fabr.). 



Bunodes (?) stella Andres, Attinie G-olfes von Neapel, p. 230, 1884. McMurrich, 

 Actinaria of Bahama Is., p. 30, 1889. 



Having received large specimens of this species from Green- 

 land and Cumberland Gulf, I at one time identified it with A. 

 spectabilis Fabr., owing mainly to the green color of the latter, 

 but as this was not described as verrucose, it is more probable 

 that it was the green variety of Urticina crassicornis, which 

 also occurs in Greenland. At Eastport, Me., between tides, a 

 common variety of the latter is green mottled more or less with 

 red or brown. 



This species is a true Bunodes, closely related to the common 

 European species (B. verrucosa), as stated in my detailed 

 description in 1864. It is somewhat singular that Andres, 

 with my full description and figures, should have put it as a 

 doubtful species, even suggesting that it might belong to 

 Aulactinia, a genus established by myself for a species 

 described in the same paper with the present one, as if I did not 

 know the characters of my own genera and species ! 



McMurrich simply followed Andres in expressing this doubt, 

 but regretted that he could not obtain examples for study, 

 after futile efforts. It is, however, a very abundant species at 

 low-water mark at Eastport, Me., and numerous specimens have 

 been preserved by me for the Mus. Comp. Zool. (including the 

 original types) ; the IT. S. Nat. Mus.; the Mus. of Yale Univer- 

 sity, etc. He certainly did not ask me for specimens. 



He also described a very different species, from the 

 Bahamas, for which he proposed the provisional name of 

 Aulactinia stelloides, but he, at the same time, expressed the 

 opinion that it might prove to be identical with B. stella. 



Mr. Duerden (Journ. Inst. Jam., ii, p. 454, 1898), misled by 

 this statement, went farther and definitely united the same 

 species, from Jamaica (as Aulactinia stella), with my B. stella. 

 The latter is a very arctic littoral species, ranging from Maine 

 to Greenland. Its occurrence as a littoral species in the West 

 Indies would, of itself, be a case without parallel. The West 

 Indian species probably belongs to a different genus, but it 

 does not agree with the characters of typical Aulactinia. 



For such species I propose the name Bunodella. 



Bunodetta V., gen. no v. Type B. stelloides (McMur.) 



Form of body and tentacles same as in Bunodactis. Column 

 with longitudinal rows of true adhesive verrucse on the upper 



