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• new species (Plate I. figs. $, \' . Plate X. fig 2). 



Badjo, Wcsl coast of Florcs. Up to 40 metei 

 [22 58 E. ters. 



1 3 2° 5 5 'I . mei 

 Mul channel in Solor Strait off Kampong Menanga 1 1 ; mei 



lony incomplete, the basal portion and two large branches being present, flabellate 



in form rooi forms .1 lobular mass growing over a pebble. Main stem to iirst branch 



14 mm. long and 1 9 mm. in diameter, round in section, The first branch is large, and grows 



ontward and then curves downward and outward again, and attains a length of 4.6 cm. It 



; r.uir stiiï branchlets from its upper side, tliree of which give off branchings of the 



order. Above the first branch the main stem gives off three branches on one side and 



two on the other. The lower of these latter is a large branch which gives off two branchlets 



from its lower side (one of which is compound) and three from its upper side (one of which 



is compound). There are no anastomoses and the branches are all stift" and rigid. One side or 



of the branches is devoid of calyces. 



The calyces are alternate in position, but are not strictly lateral, being turned toward 

 the face of the colony. The distance between calyces is about r.3 mm. on the average. The 

 axis is densely calcareous. 



The individual calyces are low, dome-shaped verrucae, one measuring .7 mm. in height 

 and 1.3 mm. in diameter. When the polyp is retracted the calyx mouth is entirely obliterated, not 

 leaving the rosette pattern of lobes often seen in allied forms. The mouth is indicated, however, 

 by a spot of darker red color. The tentacles are heavily spiculated with tuberculate spindles. 



Spie ui es. These are doublé heads, spindles and girdled spindles. All oi these are 

 more densely covered with tubercles than is the case in G. orientalis, and the spindles are 

 stouter. Otherwise the spicules are much the same in the two species. 



Color. The colony is a rather light scarlet, or coral red throughout. The calyx mouths 

 are darker red. verging on crimson. 



The differences in habit of growth, size of calyces and in the spicules seem suiticient 

 to iustify the separation of this form from G. orientalis and other members of the genus. It 

 is near G. dislans, Studer, but differs in the disposition of the calyces, which are in three to 

 four rows in G. dislans and in thickness of stem and branches. 



nus Verrucella Milne Edwards et Haime. 



Verrucella (in part) Milne Edwards et Haime. Hist. Nat. des Coralliaires, I, 1857, p. 184. 



Verrucella Duchassaing et Michelotti. Mémoire sur les Coralliaires des Antilles, 1860, p {3 



Verrucella Kölliker. (cones Histiologicae, II. 1865, p. 14". 



Verrucella Studer. Versuch eines Systemes der Alcyonaria, 1887, p. 



Verrucella Wright and Studer. Challenger Reports, the Alcyonaria, 1889, p. LXVI. 



Verrucella Stuc zenant des Campagnes de l'Hirondelle, , p. 54. 



Verrucella I fraiti mcrète, II. 2, [901, p. ; 



