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iunumerable short, bristle-shaped radial spiues, only one-eighth as long as the radius, of the same 

 elegant form as in Octodendrom spathillatum (PI. 18, figs. 2, 4) ; each spine developed in a zig-zag 

 fashion, with very small beards, with a delicate spathillum (or coronal of beard spines) at the 

 distal end. 



Dimensions. — Diameter of the spheres 0'16 ; length of tlie spines O'Ol. 



Habitat. — South Pacific, Station 295, surface. 



4. Spongiomma clavaUim, n. sp. 



Spongy fi'amework in the central part of the sphere much denser and darker than 

 in the peripheral part. On the suiface are sixty to eighty stout, club-shaped radial spines, as long 

 as the radius of the sphere, in the proximal half three-sided prismatic, with three dentated edges ; 

 they begin at the middle of the radius (where tlie denser inner framework changes into the looser 

 outer) and are very thin at first but increase slowly in thickness towards the truncated distal 

 end. (Similar to Centrocubus r7iopalo2]hori(s, PI. 18, fig. 1, but without the cubical medullary shell.) 



Dimensions.- — Diameter of the sphere 04 ; lengtli of the spines 0'2. 



Habitat. — North Pacific, Station 241, surface. 



Subgenus 2. Spongiommura, Haeckel. 



Definition. — Radial spines on the surface of the spongy sphere of two different 

 kinds ; large main spines and small by-spines. 



5. Spongiomma helioides, n. sp. 



Spongy framework of the sphere everywhere of the same structure, with almost equal meshes, 

 ten to twelve times as broad as the bars. Sixteen to twenty radial main spines, longer than the 

 shell diameter, three-sided prismatic, with three serrated edges, beginning about the middle of the 

 radius and increasing in thickness to the truncated distal end. Between them occur numerous 

 thin, bent, bristle-shaped by-spines. (Very similar to Spongosphcera helioides, Monogr. d. EadioL, 

 Taf. xii. figs. 11-13, but without medullary shells.) 



Dimensions. — Diameter of the sphere 0'3 ; length of the main spines 04, of the by- 

 spines O'Ol. 



Habitat. — Tropical Atlantic, Station 352, surface. 



6. Spongiomma multiaculeum, Haeckel. 



Spongecliinus multiaeuleatus, Dunikowski, 1882, Denkschr. d. k. Akacl. d. Wiss. Wien, Bd. xlv. 

 p. 29, Taf. V. figs. 60-63. 



Spongy framework of the sphere very compact, with small meshes, scarcely broader than the 

 bars ; four to eight large main spines, three-sided pyramidal, longer than the shell radius ; 

 numerous (thirty to forty) thin by-spines, scarcely half as long. 



