Spie ui es. These are nearly all very slender spindles, often curving or sinuous and 

 sometimes attaining a length of 2.2 mm. Some of these are the most slender tuberculate 

 spindles that the writer has seen in the Muriceidae. 



Color. The color of the colony and of the spicules is a deep crimson. This is a very 

 beautiful and symmetrical species. 



2. Anthomuricea timorensis new species. (Plate II, figs. 2, 2a). 

 Stat. 60. Haingsi, Samau Island, Timor. 23 meters. 



A mere fragment is all that was secured of this species ; but it shows very well the 

 characteristics of the genus. It consists of the end of a branch 1.3 cm. long. 



The calyces are thickly crowded on all sides leaving hardly any of the coenenchyma 

 exposed. They are bulging at the top, where the marginal portion, together with the operculum, 

 forms a distinct rounded knob. They are 2 mm. in height, and 1.75 mm. across the knob. The 

 calycular walls are iïlled with spindless placed en chevron on their basal portions, while 

 the tips of the tentacles are covered by two curved spindles meeting at their distal ends. The 

 coenenchyma is filled with rather slender straight or slightly curved spindles. 



Spicules. The specimen is so small that it was thought best not to destroy a portion 

 in order to clean the spicules for examination. From a superficial view they seem to be all 

 spindles, evenly tuberculated. Their arrangement is almost precisely that represented in Fig. 1, 

 plate XXIII of the Challenger Report on the Alcyonaria, representing Anthomuricea argentea. 



Color. The color of the fragment is light yellowish brown. 



This fragment can not be placed in either of the hitherto known species. The calyces 

 are much broader in proportion to their height than in A. argentea, and are much more crowded. 

 They are considerably larger than in A. reticulata, and much more crowded and of a different 

 color than in A. tenuispina, a species described by the writer from the Hawaiian Islands; and 

 are cylindrical, not subconical in form. 



*3. Anthomuricea brunnea new species. (Plate II, figs. 1, \a\ Plate XIX, fig. 6). 



East coast of Pulu Weh, Sumatra, growing on cable. 40 fathoms. Aug. I7th, 1906. Van 

 NoüHUVS leg. 



Colony subflabellate in form, 10 cm. in height. The branching is exceedingly irregular, 

 some large branches growing from the front and interfering with the flabellate manner of 

 growth. The main stem gives off the stump of a heavy branch from its front, and less than 

 1 cm. from its base. At the junction of this branch with the stem a small upright branch is 

 given off, from which originate five short branches not lying in the same plain. The main 

 stem, just above the origin of the stump referred to above, divides into two parts, one lateral 

 and one upright, which give off a number of laterally disposed branchlets ; and some of these 

 again divide. 



The calvces arise from all sides of the stem and branches : but most of them are on 



