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PLATE XXIII. 



MICROCIONA PICTITIA, Bowerbank. 



Vol. ii, p. 124, ' Mon. Brit. Spongiadse.' 



Fig. 1. Represents the type-specimen in the cabinet 

 of the Rev. A. M. Norman. Natural size. 



Fig. 2. A skeleton spicnlum. X 150 linear. 



Fig. 3. One of the basally-spined, attenuato-acuate, 

 external, defensive spicula. X 150 linear. 



Fig. 4. One of the entirely spined attenuato-acuate 

 internal, defensive spicula. X 150 linear. 



Fig. 5. The basal portion of one of the internal 

 defensive spicula, to exhibit variety in the basal portion. 

 X 250 linear. 



Fig. 6. One of the equi-anchorate, retentive spicula. 

 X 530 linear. 



Since the completion of this plate I have obtained a 

 very much larger and finer specimen of this species, which 

 is figured in the supplemental Plate LXXIX of this 

 volume. 



MICROCIONA L^IVIS, Bowerbank. 



Vol. ii, p. 127, ' Mon. Brit. Spongiadse.' 



Fig. 7. The type-specimen of M. Isevis from Shet- 

 land. Natural size. 



Fig. 8. One of the attenuato-acuate, tension spicula 

 of the dermal membrane. X 150 linear. 



The tension spicula of the dermal membrane in the 

 specific description of the sponge in vol. ii, p. 127, 

 has been printed in error as " attenuato-acerate," 

 whereas it should have been attenuato-acuate. 



Fig. 9. One of the tricurvo-acerate tension spicula 

 of the dermal membrane. X 250 linear. 



Fig. 10. An attenuato-acuate skeleton spiculum. 

 X 80 linear. 



Fig. 11. An attenuato-acuate, entirely spined, inter- 

 nal defensive spiculum. X 150 linear. 



