VAN NAME: SIMPLE ASCIDIANS. 603 
Station 2526 (N. lat. 41° 40' 45", W. long. 65° 46', 121 fathoms, pebbles). 
Station 2580 (N. lat. 41° 25' 30", W. long. 69° 01', 83 fathoms, yellow sand). 
It ranges from low-water mark to 150 fathoms but appears to be 
commoner in less than 50 fathoms, and though a stony or shelly bottom 
is most favorable to it, it grows in a great variety of situations. Other 
species of ascidians as well as other animals attach themselves to large 
individuals. 
Uncertain Species. 
Phallusia inornata (Verrill). 
1879. Ascidia wornato Verrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 2, p. 196. 
Not Ascidia inornata Hancock, 1870. 
" In expansion the body is upright cylindro-conical, about twice as 
high as broad; the base is about the same in diameter as the middle 
portion, and but very little expanded. The oral tube is much longer 
than the other, subterminal, swollen at base, tapering, the upper part 
cylindrical, the opening surrounded by seven low, rounded, thin 
lobes or crenulations, between which are seven orange-colored ocelli; 
corresponding with the ocelli there are seven thickened, pointed lobes 
or folds of the test, which run down from them along the tube as 
slightly prominent costae, with transverse wrinkles between them. 
The anal tube is subterminal, shorter and smaller, situated to one side, 
and only about half as long as the oral. Its orifice is surrounded by 
six lobes and ocelli, like those of the other. Test moderately thick 
and firm, somewhat wrinkled, nearly glabrous, translucent, dull 
yellowish, blotched more or less with russet-brown. The internal 
organs show through faintly as yellow and dark markings. Height, 
in expansion, 32 mm.; greatest diameter, 17 mm.; length of oral tube, 
12 mm. ; of anal, 4 mm. to 5 mm. 
"Johnson's Bay, near Eastport, Me., 12 fathoms, stony, August 8, 
1872." 
It was described as a new species by Professor Verrill, and is not 
Ascidia inornata Hancock, 1870. Therefore if the discovery of more 
specimens proves it to be a good species it will require a new name, as 
pointed out by Hartmeyer (1909b). The type was not found in the 
collection. There is, however, one specimen, labeled " Eastport, Me., 
1870," which may be this animal, although the writer is more inclined 
to consider it merely an abnormal specimen of P. prunum. The body 
is obliquely flattened, 21 mm. long and 12.5 mm. wide, and has fairly 
