ALCYONAEIA, ANTll'ATHARIA, iMADKErORAJilA, ETC. / 



spicules are usually purplish red to pale pink in colour, but, according 

 to de Lacaze Duthiers, pure white varieties also occur. 



The species was not recorded from the Bay of Biscay either by the 

 Gaudan or the HirondcUe expeditions. 



Alcyonium digitatum, Linn. 

 Station I. Lat. K 48" 25'. Long. W. 6° 28'. 75 fathoms. 

 A small white unbranched specimen of this species was obtained 

 at this station. It is noteworthy that no specimens of the species 

 were found in the dredgings in deeper water. The Caudan expedi- 

 tion obtained the species at a depth of 570-600 metres. 



Family CORALLIIDiE. 

 Corallium maderense, Jolinson. 

 Pleiirocorallium maderense, J. Y. Johnson, Proceed. Zool. Soc., London, 

 1899, p. 60, Plates V. and VIL, figs. 1 and 4. 



Station XIIL Lat. N. 48° 7'. Long. W. 8° 13'. 412 fathoms. 



The type of this species was obtained by Rev. Padre Ernesto Smith, 

 to whom it was given by a fisherman, who told him it was brought up 

 by a fishing-line from deep water off Camara de Lobos, a village six 

 miles to the west of Funchal. No other specimen of the species has 

 been described. The species was placed in the genus rieurorondlmm 

 by Johnson, but for reasons pointed out by Kishinouye {J. Imp. 

 Fish. Bnremi, xiv. 1, 1904), which I can confirm by my investigations on 

 the Coralliidte of the Siboga expedition, to be published shortly, it 

 is inconvenient to subdivide the known species of the Coralliidae 

 into generic groups, and I have therefore referred it to the genus 

 Corallium. 



The specimen is 110 mm. in length, flabellate in growth, with the 

 verrucfB all on one side of the colony and about 70 mm. in width. 

 The main axis is kidney-shaped in section, 6 mm. x 4*5 mm. The base 

 of attachment is broken off and the ends of many of the branches are 

 missing, and consequently it may have been a good deal larger when 

 in position at the bottom of the sea. The type specimen was consider- 

 ably larger than this, being 300 mm. in length and about the same 

 in width. The specimen resembles the type in all essential respects. 

 The ramification is not quite so profuse, and there are not so many 

 of the " double carafe " or " opera-glass-shaped " spicules as described 

 by Johnson, but I can find no substantial reason for making a new 

 species. 



It is perhaps the most interesting feature of the collection of 

 Anthozoa that has been sent to me for examination to find a specimen 



