356 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
The stomach has six or more deep longitudinal folds and a well 
developed caecum. The rectum has a markedly two-lobed aperture. 
The localities from which the specimens came are: 
(1) Station 2699 (off Newfoundland, X. lat. 45° 04', ^Y. long. 
55° 23', 72 fathoms, August 22, 1886). Two colonies, the one de- 
scribed above, and another more irregular in form and less bulky, 
growing on a branching hvdroid; also several small colonies. 
Text-fig. 2. — BdtnjUoides aureum Sars. Zooiil. X 36. 
(2) Casco Bay, 50 fathoms, August 0, 1873. A small, very flat 
colony incrusting a simple ascidian. 
(3) Stations 55 to 56 B (Cashe's Ledge, Gulf of Maine, 30 to 40 
fathoms, gravel, September 5, 1874). A flat colony over 20 mm. 
across, incrusting a simple ascidian. 
(4) Banks of Newfoundland. Several very small and evidently 
young colonies. 
