is curved in the shape of a sickle and sends off a number of secondary branches which again divide 

 in an irregularly alternate manner and often fork distally, the ultimate branchlets being short, 

 rarely exceeding 1.5 cm. in length. The distance between secondary branches averages about 

 5 mm. There is no evident keel or groove in the median line, although it is indicated in 

 places. The calyces are lateral and alternate in position, and are usually about 1.5 mm. apart. 



The individual calyces are cylindrical in form and are projected nearly at a right angle 

 with the branch, although they tend to be distally inclined. A typical caly.x measures 1.3 mm. 

 in height and 1.1 mm. in diameter. The basal end is usually somewhat broader than the 

 distal. The margin is surrounded by eight lobes which are continuous with the bases of the 

 tentacles. These lobes are not so distinct as in the ne.xt species. 



The tentacles are very thickly encrusted with a mosaic of bar-like spicules, and similar 

 spicules are placed vertically in the body wall of the polyp. 



■ A cross section of a branch shows a relatively thin ccenenchyma and a regular series 

 of water-vascular canals which, in a large branch, is separated from the axis by a thin layer 

 of ccenenchyma. The axis is calcareous, without lamellae of horny material. 



Spicules. As in the next species, these are of two kinds, an outer layer of small 

 double heads and an inner layer of much larger bar-like forms with rounded corners and a 

 densely and finely tuberculate surface. This species differs from the next, however, in having 

 the girdles almost always obliterated in these bar-like forms, although it is occasionally seen 

 in what are probably immature spicules. 



The double heads sometimes become double stars, and the bar-like forms sometimes 

 intergrade with slender spindles. 



Color. The colony is a bright coral red; the polyps are white, but may originally 

 have been yellow. The axis is greenish. 



Other specimens from the type locality have verruciform calyces. This is probably due 

 to the fact that the calyces partake of the retraction of the polyps. Another specimen is very 

 large, broken, the largest fragment being 25 cm. long. 



2. Nicclla caritiata new species. (Plate IX, figs, i, ia\ PI. XI, fig. 2). 



Stat. 117. i°o'.S N. 122° 56' E., 80 meters. (Type). 



Stat. 154. o°7'.2N., I30°25'.5E. 83 meters. 



Stat. 213. Saleyer Anchorage and surroundings, including Pulu Pasi Tanette, near the North 



point of Saleyer Island. Up to 36 meters. 

 Stat. 257. In Duroa Strait, Kei Islands. Up to 52 meters. (Type). 

 Stat. 260. 5°36'.5S., I32°55'.2E. 90 meters. 

 Stat. 305. Mid Channel in Solor Straits, off Kampong Menanga. 113 meters. 



Colony very profusely branching, irregular in form, but tending to form a sub-tlabellate 

 structure. The base is absent, and the main stem is branched about 7.5 cm. from its proximal 

 end. It is about 3.1 cm. in diameter, round in section and ascends in a feebly geniculate 

 manner giving off branches alternately to the right and left. These branches are sometimes 



