•122 THE FAMILY OF THE DESMACIDINAE. 



rut^ (shuttle-like.) 

 Loc. Cape St. Vincent, 374 fathoms. 



41. * Antphilevlus pttpillaius nov. spec. 

 Spic. ac"^ f. (two kinds.) [ac. ac. f,] 



ac^ (slender ) 

 A (few.) 



anc^.3. (anc. anc.) 

 Loc. Cape of Good Hope. [Mus. L. B.] 

 The specimen in the Leyden Museum has a certain re- 

 semblance with the illustration, which Schmidt gives of his 

 Esperia renieroides *) ; only the papillae are not so large in 

 our Sponge. 



42. Atnjthilectus cuespes (Ehl.) Vosm. 

 Synon. Scopalina caespes Ehlers. '70. 



Litt. Elilers. Die Esp. Spong. p. 19. (without illustr ) 

 Esper. Pflauzenth. Sp. Tab. LIV. 

 Spic. tr. ac. sp. 



anc2.3. 

 Loc. Cape of Good Hope. 



Genus IV. Scleeilla 0. S. 1868. 



Rods smooth or spined. Anchors bi-or tridentate, 

 equiended. Irregular membranes of sarcodeioith stronger fibres. 



I do not quite understand the meaning of Schmidt's 

 diagnosis of this genus and will therefore give the original 

 text. He says: »Ich fasse hiermit einige Spongien zusam- 

 men , welche in den meisten Charakteren mit ilijxilla iiber- 

 einstimmen , aber dadurch eine Mittelstellung zwischen ihnen 

 und den Faserkieselschwammen einnehmen , dass in ihreu 



1 Spongien Atl. Geb. PI. V lig. 22 ( see also PI. V fig. 11, being an illus- 

 tration of Tedania suctoria). 



r^ott's Iroiu llie J-ieyden IMuseuni, A''ol. II. 



