NO. 1624, DESCRIPTIONS OF HAWAIIAN ALCYONARIA—NUTTING. 57% 
STACHYODES REGULARIS Wright and Studer. 
A specimen of this species was dredged at Station 3879, south of 
Lanai Island, 923-1,081 fathoms. The original specimens were se- 
cured by the Challenger in the South Atlantic, near Tristan da Cunha, 
75-150 fathoms. , 
STACHYODES DICHOTOMA Versluys. 
Stachyodes dichotoma VERSLUYS, Die Gorgoniden der Siboga-Expedition, 
II, Die Primnoide, 1906, p. 88. 
Several specimens referred to this species were secured by the 
Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross. Hach specimen had coiled 
around its branches a simple-armed basket fish, probably belonging 
to the genus Ophiocreas. One specimen was 14 inches high. 
Distribution —Off Kauai: Station 3989, 388-500 fathonis (Cat. No. 
29561, U.S.N.M.); Station 4013, 399419 fathoms; Station 4030, 
493-438 fathoms (Cat. No. 25376, U.S.N.M.) ; Station 4182, 671-957 
fathoms (Cat. No. 25375, U.S.N.M.). 
The species were secured by the Siboga Expedition in the Celebes 
Sea, off Menado, 1,264-1,165 meters; Kei Island, 204 meters; Arafura 
Sea, 984 meters. 
STACHYODES BOWERSI, new species. 
Plate XLIII, figs. 5,6; plate XLVIII, fig. 2. 
Colony about 225 mm. high. Basal portion white, solidly calca- 
reous except at the center of axis; eight erect branches are given off 
immediately above the base, all of which shortly divide into three 
erect branchlets, some of which continue without further division, 
but most of which again branch dichotomously. All of the branches 
are erect and approximately parallel. : 
The calyces are in whorls of four, and face downward, each calyx 
bearing a series of whorls of broad scale-like spicules, two to a whorl, 
each whorl being strongly frilled and dentate on its outer (lower) 
margin, each being costate in a longitudinal direction, and each 
whorl overlapping its successor. One scale of each pair also over- 
laps its fellow laterally. The first, or upper whorl, is much broader 
in its dorsal part, narrows beneath into a mere collar or rim, and 
distally expands into a broadly frilled margin with four to seven 
jagged uneven teeth. 3 
The second (middle) whorl is incomplete on its inner side, and its 
outer side is shorter than that of the first whorl; it ends in a frilled 
expanded margin in which the teeth are less prominent than in the 
first whorl. The third (distal or lower) whorl is the largest, and the 
margin is conspicuously frilled and dentate, or rather lobular, the 
teeth being less pointed than in the first whorl. 
