being high dome-shaped, and having nearly all of the spindles arranged en chevron, the 

 ends of the tentacles only being provided with longitudinal spindles. The polyps are not fully 

 retractile, all of them resting with the collaret on the calyx margin so closely that it is hard 

 to tell where the calycular spindles end and the opercular s[)indles begin, the collaret being 

 practically concealed. 



Spicules. The spicules of the stem and branches are spindles like those of the calyx 

 walls. They are, in general, longitudinal in position; but encircle the bases of the calyces. 



Color. The dried specimen is a dull woody brown, the axis is black, when clean, and 

 the spicules are light yellowish brown. 



This is one of the handsomest specimens in the collection. 



Anthogorgia Vcrrill. 



Antliogorgia Verrill. American Journal of Science and Art, XLV, 1868, p. 413. 

 Anthogorgia Wright and Studer. Challenger Reports, the Alcyonaria, 1889, p. Liii. 

 Antliogorgia Studer. Challenger Reports. Supplementary Report on the Alcyonaria, 1889, p. 12. 



The original definition of this genus, which is here adopted, is as follows : — 



'Tt is characterized by very prominent tubular cells, eight-rayed at summit: a thin cocnen- 

 chyma containing embedded fusiform spicula; those of the cells long, fusiform, thorny, embedded 

 at various angles in the surface, but not imbricated". 



The genus is separated from Paramttricea by the fact that the spicules of the calyx 

 are not arranged en chevron, from Anthogorgia by the same character in addition to the 

 absence of a crown of points, from Jl/logorgia by the fact that its spicules are all true spindles, 

 from Anfhoiniiricea by the calycular and opercular spicules not being arranged en chevron, 

 and from Miiriccides by a totally different operculum. 



The type species of this genus is Antliogorgia divaricata Verrill. The other previously 

 known species is Anthogorgia japonica Studer. Two new species are described beyond. 



I. Anthogorgia verrilli new species. (Plate III, figs. 2, 2^:; Plate XIX, fig. 8). 



Stat. 305. Mid channel in Solor Strait, oft' Kampong Menanga. 113 meters. Stony. 



Colony flabellate, 14 cm. high, and with a spread of 16 cm. The main stem sends off 

 a small branch about i cm. from its base and a little above this it forks, sending off a longer 

 lateral branch and a shorter erect branch. Each of these divides into subalternate branches, 

 and some of these latter again divide, making branchings of the third and fourth orders. The 

 calyces are usually lateral in position, and in some of the bfanches they are quite regularly 

 alternate. A few calyces are on the front of the branches, particularly on the distal portions of 

 the colony. They are (juite evenly spaced, being usually frt)m 3 to 4 mm. apart on the sides 

 of the branches. They stand stiffly at right angles to the branches, ami show little tendency 

 to curve toward each other, as in Anthogorgia anrea. 



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