that form a sort of reticulate pattern on the dried surfaces of the branches. The spindles 

 themselves are wartj-, and have prominent jagged processes and expansions. 



Color. This species superficially resembles Acanthogorgia spinosa^ but is much lighter 

 brown, and has more slender calyces. 



It also resembles Acanthogorgia irwicafa Studer, but differs from it both in color and 

 character of spicules. 



Anthomuricea Wright and Studer. 



Anthoniuricea Wright and Studer. Archiv, fur Naturgesch., Jahrg. LIII, Bd. p. 55. 

 Antlioniuricca Wright and Studer. Challenger Reports, the Alcyonaria, 1SS9, p. 108. 



Calyces cylindrical, margin without a crown of projecting points, walls with spindles 

 arranged en chevron. The operculum is conspicuous, 8-rayed, with its basal portion composed 

 of small spindles arranged en chevron. The spicules are without Stachelplatten. 



The writer has here adopted the original definition without essential modification. The 

 genus is very near to Paramiiricea, but is easily distinguished by the spicules, which are all 

 regular .spindles instead of spiny disks. 



The type species of this genus is Anthomuricea argentca Wright and Studer. Other 

 known species are Anthovuiricca tentiispina Nutting, A. chamaeleon Koch and the four new 

 species in the Siboga collection. 



I. Anthoiujiricea sangtmiea new species. (Plate I, figs. 4, 4«; Plate XIX, fig. 5). 



Stat. 47. Bay of Bima, near South Fort. 55 meters. Mud with coral sand. 



Stat. 144. Anchorage north of Salomakie (Damar) Island. 45 meters. Coralbottom. (Fragments). 



Colony flabellate in form, and with a height of 8 cm., and a diameter of 4.9 cm. The 

 main stem is straight, the first branch being given off 1.8 cm. from the base. Above this a 

 number of lateral branches are given off in an entirely irregular manner, 7 on one side and 3 

 on the other. The calyces are regularly alternate, and are inclined toward the front and toward 

 the distal ends of the branches, where a pair of large calyces form a forked termination, the 

 axis ending in a point between the calyces. The distance between the calyces is quite 

 regularly 2.5 mm. 



The individual calyces are truly cylindrical in shape, sometimes attaining a height of 

 2 mm. Their diameter is about 2 mm. The walls are filled with slender spindles which are 

 vertically disposed, but tend to the en chevron arrangement near the margin, where they 

 form eight blunt points opposite the tentacle bases. The polyps are completely retractile, but 

 in many cases rest with the unusually conspicuous collaret on the calyx margin, the dome- 

 shaped operculum resting above. Both the collaret and operculum are composed of crimson 

 spicules, the latter being made up of very numerous slender spindles which cover the basal 

 part of the tentacle with an en c h e v r o n arrangement, and are longitudinally arranged on 

 the distal parts. 



