498 A. K Verrill — New American A ctinians. 



eter of the body, sometimes nearly thrice as long, in living 

 specimens. Oral tentacles nearly equal in number to the outer 

 ones, varying in length from one-fourth to one-half the length 

 of the latter, smaller and more delicate, tapered, carried erect, 

 or nearly so, while the outer tentacles are widely divergent 

 or often recurved and bent in various directions. 



Color in life, light olive-green ; tentacles translucent pale 

 greenish. 



Length of column about *5 inch (10 to 12 mro ) ; diameter about 

 •25 inch (5 to 7 mm ) ; length of longest tentacles about 14 ,,,m . 



Taken several times by the "Albatross." Among other 

 places, at sta. 2587, K lat. 39° 02', W. long. 72° 38' ; sta. 2749, 

 N. lat. 39° 42', W. long. 71° 17', Sept. 19, 1887 ; surface tem- 

 peratures 71° and 67° F. 



Fig. 4 is by J. M. Blake ; figs. 5, 6, by A. H. Baldwin, both 

 from life. 



This species somewhat resembles D. digitata Van Beneden, 

 taken near Bermuda (Plankton Exp. Anthozoa, p. 94, pi. vii, 

 figs. 19-22, 1898), but the latter is much smaller, column 6'42 mm 

 long in preserved specimens, and had 14 marginal and 10 oral 

 tentacles. Possibly it may be a younger state of the same 

 species. It will need specimens intermediate in size to deter- 

 mine this. It is probably immature. 



