The calyces are more like truncated cones than verruca- ; or, they may be likened to 

 domes with their tops removed. A typical one measures i.i "mm. in height and 1.5 mm. in 

 diameter. The to]) is flattened, not rounded as in G. rigida, and there is a distinct series of 

 8 lobes around tlie mars^in. The dorsal surface of the tentacles bears a number of spicules, 

 principally girdled spindles. 



The ccenenchyma is thin, and the axis solidly calcareous. 



Spicules. These are mostly double heads and girdled sjandles, as in the last species. 

 A few small, regular tuberculate spindles and clubs are abso seen. The tubercles, although 

 closely set, are usually plainly in whorls on the spindles. Sometimes the girdle is obliterated 

 by such a whorl. 



Coh)r. The colony is bright scarlet throughout. 



General distribution. The t\pe locality is Batavia ; East Indies in general. 



3. Gorgoiiclla dclicatiila new species. (Plate I, figs. 2, 2a\ Plate X, fig. ij. 

 Stat. 257. In Duioa Straits. Kei Islands. To 52 meters. 



Specimens fragmentary, the largest being a flabellate branch, incomplete at both ends, 

 5.4 cm. long. The main branch is curved in a very open "S", and gives off seven branchlets 

 from one side, four of which are compound ; and four branches from the other side, three of 

 which are compound. The branchlets give off ultimate twigs in an irregularly alternate manner. 

 The main branch is but 1.2 mm. in diameter, and the ultimate twigs about .5 mm. The latter 

 are usually regularly curved. The calyces are lateral and alternate in position. 



The individual calyces are very low rounded Verrucae, a typical one measuring .5 mm. 

 in height and i.i mm. in diameter at the base They are about i mm. apart, on the average, 

 and vary greatly in size. The ends o^ the twigs are swollen, and contain two opposite calyces 

 that are considerably larger than the others. In general, however, the calyces are much smaller 

 than in any other species of this genus in the collection. There are a few minute spicules on 

 the dorsal surfaces of the tentacles, but it is difficult to ascertain their arrangement. 



The axis is very hard, calcareous, with very deep grooves or impressions of the water- 

 vascular canals. The cirnenchyma is thin. 



Spicules. These are much like those of Gorgonclla rigida, consi.sting of very heavily 

 tuberculated girdled spindles, quite stout, oval in outline and with the girdle often obliterated 

 by the encroachment of the tubercles. The double heads are relatively much less abundant 

 than in other species of the genus in the collection, and regularly tuberculate spindles with 

 the tubercles in whorls se'em to be lacking. 



Color. The colony is bright coral red, distal parts of the calyces yellow and the polyps 

 (in alcohol) white. 



This species is much more delicate than any tuher member of the genus that the writer 

 has seen. 



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