A single si^ecimen from another locality is more slender and graceful, and 

 has a different colour scheme. It is whitish-yellow, with the tips of the calyces 

 pinkish. 



Locality : Station 321 ; 5° 4' 8h" N., 80° 22' E. ; 660 fathoms. 



Previously recorded from: 63" 06' N., 56' W. ; 61" 39' N., 17' 10' W. 

 (Jungersen); South-west of Nantucket Island; 39° 59' 45" N., 68° 54' W. 

 (Verrill) ; and 0° 4' S., 90° 24' 30" W., 23° 59' N., 108° 40' W., 1° 7' N., 80° 21' W. 

 (Studer). 



The bathymetrical range varies from 700-1573 fethoms. 



Family Kopiiobelea/nomd^e. 

 Kophohelemnon hurgeri, Herklots, var. indica, n. 

 Sclei'obelemnon hdUikeri, n. sp. 

 Bathyptilum indicurn, n. sp. 

 Thesioides inermis, n. g. et sp. 



Kophobelemnon burgeri, Herklots, var. indica, n. 



This species is represented by a beautiful club-shaped colony, 57 mm. in height, 

 with a pointed upper end. 



The stalk is shorter than the club-shaped rachis. 



The axis is white, almost cylindrical in shape, extending the whole length of 

 the colony and tapering gradually to its lower end, where it has a diameter of about 

 0'5 mm. 



The rachis is club-shaped, and tapers to a point at its upper end. It reaches 

 its maximum diameter, 5 mm., at a point 4 mm. from its apex. 



The autozooids are arranged irregularly on the pararachidial surfaces in five 

 rows. They are of medium length, and are capable of complete retraction. At a 

 certain stage of contraction they seem to have distinct calyces marked off from 

 the upjDer part of the polyps. Their walls contain spicules, and in the lowest part 

 of the walls these are very numerous, arranged longitudinally in eight bands 

 with a few spicules between. Farther up these bands become narrow zigzag 

 streaks with transversely placed spicules, but this transverse arrangement seems 

 to be due to the contraction of the polyp w^alls. In the tentacles there are longer 

 needle-shaped spicules arranged longitudinally. 



The whole surface of the colony is covered by an outer coating of spicules which 

 are visible to the naked eye and give a whitish appearance to the specimen. On 

 the rachis this outer covering forms a honeycoml) with the siphonozooids in the 

 cells. 



The siphonozooids are numerous, brown in colour, and present an eight-rayed 

 appearance. They occur over the whole surface of the rachis not occupied by auto- 



