548 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, vou. xxxxy. 
It will be seen that of the 29 species heretofore described and not 
confined to the Hawaiian region, 10 occur in China or Japan, 9 in the 
Kast Indies, 7 in the North Atlantic and West Indies, and 5 in the 
South Atlantic. Sixteen species are found in the western part of 
the Pacific, showing that about 55 per cent of the species not peculiar 
to the Hawaiian Islands are Asiatic in their relations. The 7 species 
indentical with Atlantic forms offer an interesting problem which 
may find its solution in the equatorial current which is supposed to 
have formerly swept through the Central American region and 
onward across the Pacific. 
, it is highly interesting to find that the Pacific coast of America 
is represented by but a single species, Anthoptilum murray?, secured 
by the Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross from Erben Bank, 
off the California coast, and also in the Hawaiian region. This 
species, however, was previously reported by Kolliker® as secured 
by the Challenger off the coast of Halifax, in 1,250 fathoms, and by 
Verrill as taken by the Albatross in 1883, and the Fish Hawk in 
640-1362 fathoms. It occurred at a depth of 545 fathoms on Erben 
Bank. It is essentially a deep-water form and therefore apt to be 
distributed widely. 
Mr. W. K. Fisher, in his excellent paper on the Starfishes of the 
Hawaiian Islands, remarks on the lack of relation between the faunas 
of our western coasts and that of Hawaii. In the preparation 
of a report which the writer hopes to publish in the near future the 
aleyonarian fauna of the Californian coast has been studied with 
some care, with the result that not more than one or two species are 
found to be common to the two regions. 
Of the 68 species now known from the Hawaiian region, 39 are, 
so far as known, confined to that region, and the remainder show 
the relationship of the fauna to be strongly Asiatic, but with 12 
species identical with Atlantic forms, and almost no connection with 
the fauna of the eastern coast of the Pacific. 
Record of dredging stations at which Alceyonaria were secured during the 
Hawatian cruise of the Albatross in 1902. 
i | Bae thi =e : ‘ 
erate | Position. ver ee Kind of bottom. Species of Aleyonaria. 
| | : . ee 
3793 | Erben Bank; lat. N. 32° 52’ | 412-545 | Black manganese | Anthoptilum murrayi. 
55’’; long. W. 132° 34’ 10’. sand; foraminifera; 
rock. 
3824 | South coast of Molokai Is- | 222-498 | Coral rock; broken | Pennatula pearceyi. 
land. shell. 
SAS ocosc OSs se iy ele ey. bets 371-430 | Gray mud; coral rock.) Chrysogorgia stellata. 
SERS occoc GO Sean Re atte eee 281-319 | Broken shell; gravel..| Calibelemnon symmetricum, 
| Metallogorgia squarrosa. 
3836) |52--- DOL PoE oF Suncare area 238-255 | Brown gray mud; | Calibelemnon symmetricum. 
shells. 0 
aR ledaod COs eS ts sie re ye Oe 92-212 | Fine gray broken | Keroeides gracilis, Echino- 
| shells. muricea brunnea. 
“Report on the Pennatulida dredged by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 
1873-1876, 1880. p. 14. 
