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uliginosa and lighter in colour. This is especially noticeable in the case of the 

 large pointed spicules surrounding the mouth of the verruca, these being deep red 

 in the typical form, pink changing to white at the tip in the variety. The ground 

 colour of the coeuenchyma is white in the variety, red or pink in the type. 



As to spicules, those of the variety are somewhat more delicate than those 

 of the type, arid bear longer spines. The chief difference between the variety 

 and the type is that the superficial spicules of the coenenchyma in the variety 

 are white spindles, with prominent rough warts, and reaching dimensions of 

 0'61x0'19 mm., while the corresponding spicules in the type arc thick red 

 spindles with short close-set warts, and of larger size, viz., 0'91 x 0'23 mm. 



Locality : Off Dwarka, 16 fms. 



FAMILY GORGONID^E. 



6. Lophogorgia lutkeni, Wright and Studer. 

 PLATE, fig. 11. 



Challenger fieport, xxxi. 1899, p. 150, PI. XXX. fig. 1, la, XXXIV. fig. 1. 

 The collection includes several large and fine specimens of this species. The 

 colonies are more copiously branched than the description in the Challenger Report 



FIG. !. Gorgonids (Lophoyorgia lutkeni and Astromuricea stellifera) exposed at low 



water, Kiu, near Beyt. 



seems to indicate, and the largest Beyt specimen is about double the height of that 

 obtained by the Challenger. The diameter of the main stem on the largest specimen 

 is about 1cm., and the height of the colony is 45cm. There is much variety in 



