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appeared. They are coinj)Ietely overjirown by a light brown 

 Sympodium-like Alcyonid, which agree-s with Kiikenthal'.s 

 account of Alcyonium (Erythropodium) memhranacevm. 

 Owing to the friable nature of the specimens in the dried 

 condition, very little of the internal structure can be dis- 

 tinguished. 



There is considerable variety in the spicules of the coenen- 

 chyma. There are (1) approximatelv spherical bodies — 

 •087 X -080 mm. ; -120 x 105 mm. ; -122 x -105 mm. ; (2) 

 short, thick cylinders with about t\\o bands of thorny warts — 

 •087 X ^070 mm. ; •lOS x ^070 mm. ; 122 x 075 mm. ; and 

 (3) irregular bodies and a few crosses — •■087 x -077 mm.; •lOS x 

 ■087 mm. ; ^122 x •122 mm. 



The polyp-spicules are spindles — ^227 x ^070 mm. ; -240 x 

 •070 mm. ; ^245 x ^077 mm. 



Localities. — Shoalhaven Bight. New South Wales, 15-45 

 fathoms. 



Great Australian Bight, 190-300 fathoms. 



Distribution.— Fv3.nc\^ Bay, 34°7'3" S. Lat., 24°59'3" E. 

 Long., 100 metres (Kiikenthal). The " Thetis " .specimens 

 were obtained at the following localities off the coast of New 

 South A\'ales : — ^Eleven miles east of Broken Bay ; Station 34, 

 off Port Jackson, 39-36 fathoms ; Station 42, off Wata Mooli, 

 70-78 fathoms ; Station 43. off Botany Bay, 43-66 fathoms ; 

 Station 44, off Coogee, 49-50 fathoms ; Station 47, off Bulgo, 

 63-57 fathoms ; Station 48, oft' W'ollongong, 55-56 fathoms 

 (Thomson and Mackinnon). 



Order PSEUDAXOXIA, G. von Koch. 



Family MELITODID.^. 



Genus Mopsella, Gray. 



MopsELLA CLAViOERA, Ridley. 



MopH'lla clavigera, Kidley, Report Zool. Coll. H.M.S. 

 " Alert," 1884, ]). 360. pi. xxxvii., fig. B, pi. xxxviii., 

 figs, a-aiii. Id., Thomson and Mackiimon, Mem. 

 Au.str. Mus., iv., 13, 1911, p. 670, pi. Ixviii., ftg. 9. 

 Id., Xutting, Gorgoiuvcea Siboga Exped., viii., Scler- 

 axonia, 1911, p. 49. 



Sixteen specimens agree with Ridley's description of 

 Mopsellu clavigera, though there is no anastomosis. They 



