i) 
G. O. SARs. At great depths in the Foldenfjord, Norway. Bidrag til Kundskaben om Dyrelivet 
paa vore Havbanker. Forh. i Videnskabs Selskabet i Christiania, 1872, p. 115. 
Stat. 97. 5°48'.7.N., 119° 49.6 E. Off Sulu Isl. 564 M. 1 Ex. 
The only specimen of this widely distributed species that was dredged by the Siboga, 
is 50 mm. in height; the base of it was broken off, but apparently not far from the base of 
attachment. The width of the colony is about 25 mm., the diameter of the main stem 5 mm. 
and many of the short abruptly ending branches as much as 3,5 mm. Most of the cyclosystems 
are large and prominent, being from 1,6 x 0,8 mm. to 1 x 0,8 mm. They are formed by 
alternate gemmation (though this is sometimes rather irregular), but owing to the great growth 
of the coenenchym they are displaced in such a way that, on old branches they occur more 
or less irregularly, in two rows, on one surface, which may therefore be called “anterior”, and 
rarely or spasmodically on the other, the “posterior” surface. The colour is a pale yellowish pink. 
5. Stylaster amphthelordes Kent. 
SAVILLE KENT. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 277, Pl. XXIV, fig. 1, 1a, 6 and c. Cape of 
Good Hope. 
Stats O7e sa4oc7New LQ; 49 °6'E. Sulu Ils: 564 M. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 150. 0° 6 N., 129° 7’.2E. Djilolo Passage. 1089 M. 2 Ex. 
Stat. 156. 0°29.2N., 130° 5’.3 E. N.W. of New Guinea 469 M. 4 Ex. 
Stat: 77. 202425) S., 129738.5 8. N. of Ceram. 1633 M. 2 pieces. 
Stat. ? label lost I Ex. 
The largest complete specimen, was 40 mm. in height, 35 mm. in breadth. The cyclo- 
systems are from 1,5 X 0,7 mm. to 0,8 X 0,6 mm. in diameter. 
The Siboga specimens have been compared with the type specimen in the British Museum 
from the Cape of Good Hope and they prove to be identical. Unfortunately Savirte Kent does 
not give the depth at which his material was found. This species is in superficial characters 
curiously like the genus Coxopora, the coenosteum being both fistulose and coalescent, and 
neither are flabellate in growth. A polychaet worm was found in the cavity of the main stem 
and as mentioned above was probably responsible for its peculiar formation. Conxopora differs 
however from this and all the species of S¢yéaster in the absence of styles from both gastro- 
pores and dactylopores. 
6. Stylaster virgines Lindstrom. 
Cryptohelia virginis Lindstrom. K. Sv. Vet. Acad. Hand. N° 6, Bd. XIV, p. 15, Pl. II, Fig. 24. 
Off Salt Isl. Danish W. Indies. 200—320 fms. 
Stat. 156. 0°29.2S., 130°5'.3 E. N.W. little of New Guinea. 469 M. 1 Ex. dry. 
A small dry specimen has very much the same characters as those described and figured 
by Lrypstrom for his species Cryptohelia virginzs from the West Indies. We agree with MosELry 
in considering that the species should be placed in the genus S¢y/aster, as it differs markedly 
