distance between branches varies frorn 2.5 mm. to 11.5 mm. but 3 mm. is a common 

 mee. The 1 mainly lateral in position, bul may be on all sides of the branches. 



In the dried specimen the) are hardly evident, appearing to be entirely included in the 

 nenchyma. rhey were probablj low warty verrucae in the fresh specimen. 



The individual ca in not be successfully studied in the specimen described. In many 



mouths are so completely closed that there is no tracé of an opening, and their 



diam m not be measured on account <>f their walls fading insensibly into the general 



nchyma of the branch. In some cases the openings appear as oval pores, The characters 



the polyps can not be ascertained from the type. 



The a\is is horny, but shows traces of impregnation by lime salts, particularly in the 

 1] parts. There are no grooves on the stem or branches. 



Spicules. These are smal) spindles, doublé spindles, girdled spindles and a few doublé 

 heads. All are regularly tuberculated, the tuben-les being usually in definite whorls. 



Color. The dried specimen is a dark, bright pink, tending to a carmine. The spicules 

 mostly carmine. 



Genus Stenogorgia Verrill. 



Verrill. Bulletin .Museum Comparative Zoology, XI, 1, 1883, p. 29. 

 Stenogorgia Studer. Versuch eines Systemes der Alcyonaria, 1887, p. Ö4. 

 Stenogorgia Wright and Studer. Cliallenger Reports, the Alcyonaria. 1889, p. LXII. 

 Stenogorgia Delage et Hérouard. Traite de Zoölogie Concrete, II, 2, 1901, p. 420. 

 Stenogorgia Nuttin-. Alcyonaria of the Californian Coast, 1909, p. 722. 



original description of the genus Stenogorgia is as follows: 

 "Axis horny, branched. Ca-nenehyma thin, consisting chiefly of small, warty fusiform 

 spicula, with a few smaller, short, irregular, rough, granule-like spicula next the outer surface, but 

 not forming any regular layer. Calyces scattered or two rowed, more or less prominent, eight-rayed 

 at summit, and filled with spicula like those of the ccenenchyma. Tentacles filled with fusiform 

 spicula and usually incurved, commonly not retracted within the calyces, but capable of it '. 



Si iSS-) and subsequent writers adopt this definition without material modification. 



The type species of this genus is Stenogorgia casta Verrill. Other known species are 

 Sten ceylonensis Thomson and I lenderson, .S'. kofoidi Nutting, S. miniata (Valenciennes), 



S rosea Grieg and the new species collected by the Siboga Expedition. 



1. Stenogorgia miniata (Valenciennes). 



Gorgonia miniata Valenciennes. Comptes rendus, XI. I. 1855, p. 12. 



Gorgonia miniata Milne Edwards et Haime. Histoire Naturelle des Coralliaii I, 57, p. 160. 

 / miniata Pourta ' mtributions to the Fauna of the Gulf Stream at (heat depths, 

 1868, i'. 160. 

 Sten 1 miniata Studer. Akyonaires provenant des Campagnes de l'Hirondelle, [901, p. 5 1 - 



it. So. 2 2; S., ii7°43' 1 From 50 to 40 metei 

 1 17. i° 0.5 X., 1 1-'.. So metei 



S., I 19' 7.5 E. 73 meters. 



