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1 i table shows that species of this familj were secured at 18 stations, and that one 

 ich station, with the exception <>t" Station 273 where two pecies were 

 rhis station must have been exceedingly rich in alcyonarian life, although but two of 

 the S ured here. 



This family seems to be largel) confined to shallow water, as but a single species was 



red from a depth greater than 100 meters. The species referred to was Suberogorgia 



red at Station 305 at a depth <>f w\ meters. 



I wo >'t" the species in the Siboga collection, however, were secured by th<- Challenger 



Japan at a depth of 345 fathom s. These are Suberogorgia verriculata and S. köllikeri. 



It" Thomson and Simpson 1 are correct in regarding Koroeides gracilis and K. pallida as 



synonyms of A'. koran', this species lias a wider range than any other of the family Sclero- 



idae in the collection, extending from the [ndian Ocean to Japan and the Hawaiian Islands. 



the Indian Ocean, II. 1909, p. 167. 



