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Callogorgia fiabeUa, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1859, p. 484. 



Calligorgia verticillata, Gray, Cat. Lithophytes Brit. Mus., 

 1870, p. 35. 



XiphoceUa esperi, Gray, Cat. Lithophytes Brit. Mus., 1870, 

 p. 36. 



Calligorgia flabellum, Studer, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. 

 Berhn, 1878, p. 646, pi. ii., fig. 13, a, b. 



Caligorgia fahellum. Wright and Studer, Chall. Rep., 

 ZooL, xxxi., 1889, p. 79, pL xiy., fig. 2. Id., Studer, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxy., 1894, p. 65. Id., Ver- 

 sluys, Gorgoniden Siboga Exped., ii., Primnoidse, 

 1906, p. 69. pi. v.. fig. 13, pi. vi., fig. 14. Id., Thom- 

 son and Henderson, Alcyonaria Indian Ocean, i., 1906, 

 p. 43. Id., Kiikenthai, Zool. Anzeig., xxxi., 1907, 

 p. 209. Id., Kinoshita, Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, xxiii., 

 12, 1908, p. 35, pi. vi.. fig. 45. Id., Nutting, Proc. 

 U.S. Xat. Mus., xHii., 1913, p. 60. 



The collection contains a single incomplete specimen, 

 which I am unable to separate from the Japanese Caligorgia 

 fiabellum (Ehrenberg). The polyps and spicules agree with 

 the description and figures given by Versluys, except that 

 the sculpture of the distal scales is not so pronounced as 

 figured. In my specimen the number of polyps in a whorl 

 is usually four, sometimes five, never so many as seven as 

 in those of Versluys. Nutting's specimen has eighteen polyps 

 to a whorl on the bases of the larger branches. 



The colour of the colony is cream. 



Locality.— Great Australian Bight, Long. 129° 6V, 200-300 

 fathoms. 



Distribution. — Previously recorded from near Mauritius, 

 Japan, Formosa, and the western part of the Indian Ocean. 

 "Challenger" Station 232, Hyalonema-ground, south of 

 Japan, 345 fathoms (Wright and Studer). Port Phillip, 

 Victoria (Hickson^). The ''Albatross" Expedition obtained 

 it at the following localities :— Station 3406, Lat. 0° 16' N., 

 Long. 90° 21' 30" W., 551 fathoms ; Station 3424, Lat. 

 21° 15' N., Long. 106° 23' W., 676 fathoms ; Station 3353, 

 Lat. 7° 6' 15" N., Long. 80° 34' W., 695 fathoms (Studer). 

 " Siboga " Station 251, 5° 28'-4 S., 132° 0'-2 E., Kei Island, 

 204 metres (Versluys). " Investigator " Station 333, 6° 37' 

 N., 79° 38|' E., 401 fathoms (Thomson and Henderson). 

 Indian Ocean, 752 metres (Kiikenthai). Sagami Sea, Japan 

 (Kinoshita). " Albatross " Station 4936, Sata Misaki Light, 

 N. 21° E., 103 fathoms (Nutting). 



1. Under the name of PrimnoeUa australasia- (Gray). 



