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Figure 30. — a-g, Leptoclinides reticulatus (Sluiter): a, surface of small colony from Palau 

 Islands; b, branchial aperture on same colony; c, schema showing section of colony; 

 d, spicules from Palau specimens, X 940; e, crystalline needles found in test of the 

 Gilbert Islands specimen;/, right side of thorax of a zooid of Palau specimen; g, abdomen 

 of same zooid. h-j, Leptoclinides hawaiiensis, new species: h, schema showing section of 

 the encrusted colony from sta. 3970; i, schema showing section of a massive small colony; 

 ;', intestinal loop of a zooid from the encrusted colony. 



Kemarks. — The formation of the atrial siphon may be indistinct in 

 some colonies and consequently the general appearance of zooids re- 

 sembles closely the species of Didemnum. However, the location of 

 zooids in the present specimens is distinctly characteristic of Lepto- 

 clinides. Probably, the present species may be regarded as one of the 

 intermediate forms between Leptodinkles and DldemnuTn. The 

 structure of the present specimens conforms to that described by 



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