ANTHOZOA. 
GobI. 3 
op. cit. i. pp. 302-304 ; deep-sea corals in the Antillean sea, 1. c. pp. 265-271. 
Notes on rare and remarkable Anthozoa and Hydrozoa dredged in rather 
deep water off the coast of New England and Nova Scotia, by A. E. 
Vktiiiill, in “Notice of recent additions to the marine fauna of the 
eastern coast of North America,” Am. J. Sci. (3) xvi. pp. 212 & 213, & 
374-378. 
Lindstrom (9) has published a list of corals collected at some of the 
Lesser Antilles (St. Bartholomew especially), on the shores and at 200-300 
fathoms, on the Josephine Bank (36° 46' N. lat.), &c. Eleven species are 
common to both sides of the Atlantic, all from 100-980 fathoms. Most 
of these widely distributed corals are but little variable, specimens from 
off Florida closely resembling those taken off Portugal, or, if highly 
variable, presenting almost identical varieties. Lindstrom comments 
upon the unsatisfactory condition of Actiniology, the knowledge being 
almost exclusively confined to the skeleton-characters, while we are unable 
to do justice, in systematizing, to some striking analogies between the soft 
parts, for instance, of Corynactis and Cary ophy Ilia [or of Corallimorphus 
and Ste^dianophyllia ; cf. Moseley (10)] ; also on the slight value of certain 
characters derived from the epitheca or “ paluli,” the fixed or free, single 
of compound, state of the coral, &c. Moseley (10) dwells upon the fact 
that shallow-water genera are not considerably modified at considerable 
depths (Edwardsia), even not when exchanging the light and heat of 
shallow tropical seas for the darkness and icy cold of the deep sea {Ceri- 
anthus). Klunzinger (6) enumerates 76 species of Alcyonaria^ Antipa- 
thidai, and Malacodermata from the Red Sea ; the new species and those 
figured are enumerated below. In like manner, Studer’s (12) synopsis of 
species collected on several reefs in the Pacific, or dredged at largo 
depths, is recorded. 
Genera and Species. 
(Actiniid^). Corallimorphus, g. n., Moseley. Body rigid, smooth, 
gelatinous, not contractile, without pores, but with an adherent base ; 
disk large, circular ; tentacles non-retractile, elongate, conical, with a 
rounded terminal knob, of several sizes, disposed in regular series at the 
margin of the disk and in two circlets on its surface. C. profundus, 
sp. n., id. (10), p. 300, pi. xlv. figs. 7 & 8 (South Pacific, 2025 fathoms, 
attached to a manganese nodule) ; rigidus, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 301, figs. 9 
& 10 (among the Moluccas, 1425 fathoms). 
Nautactis purpureus, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 295, pi. xlv. figs. 1 & 2. A small 
floating Actinia, differing from N. olivacea in the nature of the tentacles, 
among which none are multilobate (between the New Hebrides and 
Australia). A small larval Minyad obtained off the Philippines ; id. 1. c. 
fig. 3. 
Oceanactis, g. n., id. Body transparent, smooth, spherical when con- 
tracted, hemispherical when expanded, provided with rounded costal ridges 
and a single row of tubercles ; tentacles simple, elongate, conical in two 
rows ; base very small, entirely invisible in the contracted condition, with 
an aperture in the centre communicating with the body cavity. 0. rho- 
