LEPTOOLINUM FULGENS. 47 



4. Leptoclinum fulgens Milne Edwards. 



(Plate LVIII, figs. 7-10, and fig. 110 in text.) 



Leptoclinum fulgens MILNE EDWARDS Obs. Ascidies coinp. 

 [1841], p. 83, [in Mem. Acad. Sci. List. France, XVIII 



(1842), p. 299,] pi. viii, f. 5; [ANSTBD & LATHAM 

 Channel Isl. (1862), p. 219 ; G-RUBE Insel Lussin Meeresf. 

 (1864), p. 59, and in Abli. schles. Cles. vatevl. Cultur, 

 1868-69 (1869), pp. 105, 125]. 



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FIG. 110. Part of a colony of Leptorluium fidyens. (M. Edwards, 



pi. viii, f. 5 a.) 



Colonij incrusting, thin when on a flat surface 

 (PL LVIII, figs. 7 and 10), but more massive when 

 incrusting zoophytes, rather less coriaceous and more 

 delicate than in the last species, with or without very 

 slight papillae, and of a brilliant orange-vermilion 

 colour. Individuals small ; calcareous crystals (PL 

 LVIII, fig. 8) very uneven in size and with numerous 

 points (about twelve in the circumference of the 

 larger crystals). 



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Hab. On the underside of stones between tide- 

 marks, and on shells and zoophytes. 



