] 78 HIRCINIA. 



Hircinia variabilis, var. dendroides, O. SclimicU. 



Hirdnia dendroides, O. Schmidt, Die Spongieu des Adriatischeu Meeres, Seite 



32 (1862). 

 Hircinia dendroides, 0. Schmidt, Die Spongien der Kiiste von Algier, Seite 5 



(1868). 

 Hircinia variabilis, pars, i\ E. Schulze, " Untersuchungen iiber den Ban und 



die Entwickluug der Spongien. — YIII. Die Grattung Hircinia, Nardo, 



und Oligoceras, n. gen.," Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 



Bd. xxxiii. Seite 12 (1879). 



Sponges with branched, long and slender, digitate processes, which arise 

 from an incrusting base. The branches anastomose here and there. Orange- 

 yellow or red on the surface. The main fibres are more split up to form trellis- 

 like fascicles in this than in the other varieties. The filaments are very abun- 

 dant, 0-0023 millim. thick. 



Geographical Distributiok. — Mediterranean : Adriatic, Quarnero, coast 

 of Dalmatia (0. Schmidt). Coast of Algiers, La Calle (Lacaze-DiitJtiers). 



Indian Ocean: Mascarene Islands, Providence Eeef ('Alert'). 



North coast of Australia : South coast of New Guinea (Haacke) : Isle of 

 Pines, Torres Straits (British Mnseum Coll.). 



Hircinia campana, Lamarck. 



Hircinia campana, 0. Schmidt, Grundziige einer Spongienfauna des Atlantischen 



Gebietes, Seite 31 (1870). 

 Hircinia campana, var. fixa, A. Hyatt, " Eevision of the North-American 



Poriferae. — Part II.," Memoirs of the Boston Society, vol. ii. p. 546 



(1877). 

 Hircinia campana, var. typica, A. Hyatt, I. c. p. 546. 

 Polytherses campana, Duchassaing et Michelotti, Spongiai'res de la mer Carai'be, 



p. 68 (Haarlem, 1864). 

 Spongia campana, J. B. de Lamarck, " Sur les Polypiers empates : Eponges," 



Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, torn. xx. p. 385 (1813). 

 Spongia campana, J. B. de Lamarck, Histoire des animaux sans vertebres, 



tom. ii. p. 553 (1816). 

 Stematumenia scyphus, J. S. Bowerbank, " Observations on the SpougidjB, with 



Descriptions of some new Genera," Annals and Magazine of Natural 



History, ser. 1, vol. xvi. p. 407 (1845). 



Large, flabelliform, cup-shaped, or pedunculate, lamellar or also horizontally 



