﻿ALCYONAKIA. 
  349 
  

  

  spicules 
  agree 
  with 
  those 
  of 
  specimens 
  already 
  in 
  the 
  National 
  

   collection. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Warrior 
  Reef, 
  Torres 
  Straits, 
  12 
  fms. 
  ; 
  off 
  North-west 
  Cape, 
  

   W. 
  Australia, 
  3-4 
  fms. 
  {Stnder). 
  

  

  The 
  known 
  distribution 
  is 
  : 
  — 
  Indian 
  Ocean 
  (Pallas), 
  Seas 
  of 
  the 
  

   Moluccas 
  {Lamard-}, 
  India 
  and 
  China 
  {Gray), 
  Cuba 
  (il/«s. 
  Brit., 
  

   coll. 
  H. 
  Christy). 
  

  

  The 
  occurrence 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  off 
  Cuba 
  is 
  a 
  remarkable 
  ease 
  of 
  

   distribution, 
  but 
  must 
  be 
  taken 
  to 
  be 
  correct, 
  as 
  I 
  can, 
  after 
  

   careful 
  examination, 
  find 
  no 
  grounds 
  for 
  separating 
  the 
  specimen 
  

   from 
  the 
  above 
  and 
  other 
  undoubted 
  specimens 
  of 
  pectinata. 
  Indeed 
  

   it 
  agrees 
  with 
  the 
  Torres-Straits 
  specimen 
  more 
  closely 
  than 
  

   with 
  other, 
  probably 
  Indian 
  Ocean, 
  examples 
  ; 
  the 
  verruca-spicules, 
  

   which 
  are 
  neither 
  figured 
  nor 
  fully 
  described 
  by 
  Kcilliker 
  (' 
  Icones 
  

   Histiologica3 
  '), 
  show 
  a 
  modification 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  type 
  as 
  those 
  of 
  

   the 
  general 
  cortex, 
  being 
  only 
  more 
  elongated 
  than 
  those, 
  and 
  

   bearing 
  two 
  and 
  sometimes 
  three 
  distinct 
  whorls 
  of 
  tubercles, 
  besides 
  

   a 
  few 
  median 
  terminal 
  ones 
  on 
  each 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  spicule 
  ; 
  the 
  two 
  

   inner 
  whorls 
  almost 
  meet 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  obliterate 
  the 
  median 
  

   bare 
  zone 
  which 
  is 
  characteristic 
  of 
  the 
  cortical 
  spicules. 
  

  

  SCLEEOGORGIACEiE. 
  

  

  SUBEROGORGIA. 
  

  

  Suberogorgia, 
  Gray, 
  P. 
  Z. 
  S. 
  1857, 
  p. 
  159. 
  

  

  Pterogorgia 
  (pars), 
  Dana, 
  Zoupk. 
  p. 
  647 
  ; 
  M.-Eihrards 
  Sf 
  Haime, 
  

  

  Hist. 
  Cor. 
  p. 
  107 
  (1857). 
  

   Sclei-ogorgia, 
  Kolliker, 
  Icon. 
  Histiol. 
  ii. 
  Abth. 
  pp. 
  142, 
  144 
  (1865), 
  

  

  24. 
  Suherogorgia 
  suberosa. 
  

  

  Gorgonia 
  suberosa, 
  Pallas, 
  Ek-nch. 
  Zooph. 
  p. 
  191 
  ; 
  Esper, 
  Pflanzenth. 
  

   Fortsetz. 
  i. 
  p. 
  170, 
  pi. 
  xlix. 
  

  

  One 
  magnificent 
  specimen, 
  attaining 
  a 
  height 
  of 
  87'5 
  centim. 
  (35 
  

   inches) 
  and 
  a 
  maximum 
  lateral 
  expansion 
  of 
  50 
  centim. 
  (20 
  inches), 
  

   also 
  several 
  smaller 
  ones, 
  all 
  dry, 
  and 
  two 
  small 
  examples 
  in 
  spirit. 
  

   Pallas 
  says 
  that 
  it 
  often 
  reaches 
  the 
  height 
  of 
  3 
  feet. 
  

  

  Studer 
  records 
  it 
  from 
  the 
  north-west 
  coast 
  of 
  Axistralia 
  at 
  50 
  

   fms. 
  It 
  appears 
  not 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  recorded 
  until 
  now 
  from 
  Torres 
  

   Straits 
  or 
  any 
  locality 
  in 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Ocean. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Port 
  Denison, 
  Queensland, 
  4 
  fms. 
  ; 
  Alert 
  Island 
  and 
  West 
  

   Island, 
  Torres 
  Straits, 
  7 
  fms. 
  

  

  BRIAREID^. 
  

  

  25. 
  Briareum, 
  ? 
  sp. 
  

  

  A 
  crumbling 
  spirit-specimen 
  of 
  what 
  is, 
  perhaps, 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  this 
  

  

  