REPORT ON THE ALCYONARIA. 



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Family IV. Protoptilid^ 



Protoptilum, Koll. (according to 



Verrill, a young form of Virgu- 



laria). 

 Lygomorpha, Kor. and Dan. 

 Microptilum, Koll. 

 Lept<yptilum, Koll. 



Trichoptilum, Koll. (according to 

 Verrill, a young form of Funicu- 

 laria). 



Scleroptilum, Koll. 



Distichop)tilum, Verr. 



Gunneria, Dan. and Korn. 



Section III. RENILLE^ 

 Family I. Renillid^e. 



Renilla, Lam. 



Section IV. VERETILLE^. 

 Family I. Cavernularid^. 

 Cavernularia, Val. | Stylobelemnon, Koll. 



Lituaria, Val. 

 Veretillum, Cuv. 



Family II. L i t u A r i d ^. 



Policella, Gray. 

 Clavella, Gray. 



Section V. GOENDULE^. 



Family I. G o e N d u l i d .e. 

 Goendul, Kor. and Dan. 



Order III. GORGONACEA, Verrill. 



Gorgonacea, VerriU, Proc. Essex Inst., vol. iv. p. 148. 

 Axifera, Gray, Cat. Lithophytes Brit. Mus., p. 1. 

 Gorgonid3e, Dana, Milne-Edwards, Klunzinger, etc. 



Fixed colonial Alcyonaria with a more or less firm internal axis, which is covered 

 by a ccenenchyma from which the polyps, with their short body cavities, arise. 



(ZOOL. CHALL. EXP. — PART LXIV. — 1889.) SsS « 



