ALCYONARIANS. — BRIGGS. 93 



Genus Sarcophyllum, Kdlliker. 



Sarcophyllum GRANDE {Gray). 



Sarcoptilus grandis, Graj'", Proc. Zool. Soc, xvi., 1848, p. 



45, pi. i. Id., Gmy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., v., I860, 



p. 23. Id., Gray, Cat. Sea-Pens Brit. Mus., 1870, 



p. 25. 

 Sarcophyllum aaistrale. Kolliker, Anatom. Systeniat. Bes- 



chreib. Alcvonarien. Abth. 1., Pennatuliden, 1872, pp. 



120, 364, pi. viii.. figs. 66. 67. Id., Hickson, Proc. 



Roy. Soc. Vict., (n.s.); ii., 1890, p. 140. Id., Thomson 



and Mackinnon, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., 13, 1911, p. 



694, pi. Ixxxii. 

 Sarcophyllum grande, Kolliker, Cliall. Rep., Zool., i.. 1880, 



p. 2. 



A number of specimens of a light brown colour agree on 

 the whole with Kolliker's descrij^tion of Sarcophyllum. aus- 

 tralis {=S. grande, Gray). 



Gray's original description, which was based on a single 

 specimen from an unknown habitat, contains the following 

 passage :— " Pinnce placed in two crowded rows, one on 

 each side of one of the faces of the upper part of the shaft, 

 kidney-shajjed, crumpled, with the polyps scattered on the 

 edge and ujDper siu'faces, especially near the edge." 



After an examination of specimens from Sj'dney, New 

 South Wales, he writes " When I first described this genus 

 I believed that the polypes were ' scattered over the upper 

 surface of the pinnae ' ; but that is a mistake which I was 

 led into by the imperfect state of the specimen ; the polyps 

 are only placed on the margin of the pinnae as in other Pen- 

 natulidce." 



In the present specimens there are numerous rows of auto- 

 zooids on the margin of the pinnules. The characteristic 

 spicules of the species are situated in the base of the colony, 

 and consist of large white S-shaped forms measuring up to 

 4mm. in length. 



The dimensioiTs in centimetres of the largest specimen 

 are as folloMS : — 



