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Pennatula juucea, Pa/las, Zooph. p. 871. n. 217 ; Espcr, FJlauzenth. iii. 



p. 87, t. 14. 

 Virgulavia jimcea, Lamk. A. s. V. ii. p. 431, ed. 2, ii. p. 648 ; ScJmcit/. 



Beoh. p. 20, t. 2. f. 12; Cuvier, R. A. ed. 2. iii. p. 318; Ehreuh. 



Corall. r. M. p. 3-5 ; Blamv. Man. cVAct. p. 514, t. 90. f. 13 ; Dana, 



Zoojj/i. p. 692, not description ; Herklotz, Not. p. 12. 

 ? Virgularia australis, Blainv. Mem. cVAct. p. 314 (vide Milne- Eiho.). 



Hab. Shores of Molucca and Borneo (Mus. Leyden). 



Cuvier considers that the Vi)r/ularia australis of Lamk. H. N. A. s. 

 V. ii. p. 432, does not differ from V. jimcea (sec Reg. Anim. ii. p. 83). 

 MM. Milne-Edwards and Haime observe that the stylet figured by 

 Seba (Thes. iii. t. 114. f. 2) is artificially sunk in a fragment of stony 

 matter (Corall. i. p. 21). 



8. Virgularia Keinwardtii. B.M. 



Body elongate, fusiform ; base swollen. The pinnules in series 

 nearly at right angles with the axis of the stem ; the lower ones far 

 apart on the sides of the stem ; the upper ones close together in front. 

 Axis round. 



Virgularia Reiuwardtii, Herklotz, Not. p. 13, t. 7. f. 8. 



Hab. Indian Seas (Mus. Leyden, Reinwardt) ; Amboina and Ceram 

 (B.M.). 



9. Virgularia elegans. B.M. 



Coral dark green ; the polypes rather irregular, crowded, in well- 

 marked concentric ridges ; the axis stony, cylindrical, smooth. 

 Hab. AustraHa, Shark's Bay (J/r. Rayner, 1859). 



Var. hexangiilaris. The axis with six acute angular ridges. A 

 fragment with the other specimens, which are frequent. 



See V. australis, Lamk. A. s. Y. ii. p. 648, from an axis only 

 (from Australia?). 



10. Virgularia philippinensis. B.M. 



Hah. Philippines (^Cuming), axis only. 



In the British Museum there are axes of two Pennatularia, probablj- 

 yirgularice : — 



1. Philippines (Ctimi^ig). 



2. North Australia (Jukes). 



11. Virgularia pusilla. 



Virgularia pusilla, Verrill, Froc. Essex Inst. 18G5, iv. p. 184, t. 5. f. 2 

 (animal). 



" Coral small, slender, the pinnae extending nearly to the base, 

 which is rounded and bulbous. Pinni3e of the upper portion surround- 

 ing the stalk on all sides except the back, which is naked ; below 

 they are separated also by a narrow anterior space ; but the pinnse of 

 the opposite sides appear to coalesce anteriorly higher up, producing 



