190 



(a) Coenenchyma : (1) Rods with at each end a whorl of three large 



papillose warts, 0-2 x 0"1 ; 02 x 015. 



(2) Tri- and quadri-radiate forms, 01x01; 0125x 



0126. 



(3) Stellate forms with warty knobs, 01 x 01 ; 0075 x 



0075. 



(4) Short rods with large warty knobs irregularly ar- 



ranged, 0-2 X 0125 ; 015 x 01. 



(5) Irregular and intermediate forms, 0-2 x 01 ; 007 x 



007. 



(f)) Anthocodise — Similar forms, but slightly smaller. 



(c) Tentacles — Stout rough clubs with short handles, warty at the end, 

 0'055 X 0"045, and 0'2 at the narrow smooth part. 



Locality : Andaman Sea, 20 fathoms ; also surf-line. 



Previously recorded from Pacific Ocean (Wright and Studer) ; Indian 

 Ocean (Ellis), (Pallas) ; Mediterranean Sea (Pallas) ; America (Pallas) ; North 

 Sea (Linnaeus) ; Iceland (Olafsen and Polvesen), (Lamouroux) ; Antilles and 

 United States (Lamouroux) ; Straits of Sunda and Southern Coast of Sumatra 

 (Ellis) ; East Indies (Dana) ; Amboina (Milne-Edwards and Haime). 



LITBEATURE ON ISIS. 



I. 1688. Clusius (Ch. de I'Ecluse). Exotic, p. 124. 



II. 1737. LiNN^us. Hortus Cliffortianus, p. 479. 



III. 1758. Ibid. Systema Naturae, ed. x., p. 799. 



IV. 1767. Ibid. Op. cit., ed. xii., p. 1288. 



V. 1750. EuMPHius. Herb. Amboinense, vol. vi. tab. 84. 

 VI. 1766. Pallas. Elenchus Zoophytorum, p. 229. 



VII. 1786. Ellis and Solander. The Natural History of Many Curious and Uncommon 

 Zoophytes. 

 VIII. 1791-97. Espee. Die Pflanzenthiere, p. 33. 



XI. Ibid. Fortsetzung, p. 6, tabs. vi. xi. figs. 4 and 5. 

 X. 1801. Lamarck. Syst. des Anim. sans vertfeb., p. 377. 



XI. 1816. Ibid. Hist. Nat. des Anim. sans vert^b., vol. ii. p. 300. 



XII. 1836. Ibid. Op. cit., ed. ii., p. 473. 



XIII. Ibid. M6m. Mus. Hist. Nat., torn. i. p. 415. 



XIV. 1816. Lamouroux. Histoire g6n6rale des Polypiers corallig^nes flexibiles, p. 475. 

 XV. 1821. Ibid. Exposition m^thodique des Genres de I'ordre des Polypiers, p. 39, plate 



3, fig. 1. 

 XVI. 1834. Blainville. Manuel d'Actinologie, p. 503, plate 86, fig. 1. 

 XVII. 1834. Ehrenberq. Corallenthiere des Eothen Meeres, p. 132. 

 XVIII. 1849. Steenstrup. Om Slaegten Jsis og de under Isis hippuris Linn6 sammenblandede 

 Arter. 

 XIX. 1846. Dana. Zoophytes, p. 680. 

 XX. 1856. Milne-Edwaeds and Haime. Monograph of the British Fossil Corals, lutrod. 

 p. Ixxxi. 



