388 Verrill, N'otes 07i RaUata. 



pinnte again subdivide, but less regularly. The l^ranehlets are all 

 of nearly uniform size, slender and short, somewhat flattened and en- 

 larged at the ends, which ai-e tridentate. The cells are very small, but 

 form well marked conical verrucne, arranged in two alternate rows on 

 most of the branchlets, but sometimes forming only single marginal 

 rows on the terminal ones. The front and back sides of the branches 

 are destitute of cells, and on the principal ones usually show a well- 

 marked longitudinal furrow. Color bright red, sometimes tinged 

 with yellowish. Height of the lai-gest specimens 6 inches ; breadth 

 12 ; diameter of the main branches at base 'V2 of an inch ; of the sec- 

 ondary ones '06 ; of the terminal ones "04 ; length of the terminal 

 branchlets usually al)out •35, rarely '75. 



The spicula are bright red with a few yellow ones intermixed. The 

 longer double-spindles are rather slender, with acute ends, and cov- 

 ered mth close warts arranged in about six distinct whorls, besides the 

 terminal clusters ; stouter ones smaller, Avith blunt ends ; polyp-spic- 

 ula bright yellow, slender, with few, distant, small warts or paj^illse. 



The longer double-spindles measure -132""" by -048'"'", -132 by -036, 

 •120 by -048, -120 by -042, -108 by '048, '108 by -042, "108 by '030; 

 the stouter ones -095 by -042, -084 by -048, -084 by -042, "078 by -036, 

 •060 by -030 ; the polyp-spicula -108 by ^033, '108 by ^030, •09G by -024, 

 •072 by •018. 



Panama and Pearl Islands, — F. H. Bradley, J. H. Sternbergh. 



This species resembles, in its mode of branching, Eugorgia Mexi- 

 cana V. and E. Daniana V., but is much more slender and delicate, 

 with a smoother surface and denser coenenchyma, and is very distinct 

 in its spicula, its color is also very different. The spicula resemble 

 closely those of L. eximia V. but are somewhat more slender with 

 the warts not so close. The external characters are very different. 



I have named this elegant species in honor of the excellent wife, 

 whose sympathy and encouragement were the chief causes that in- 

 duced me to devote my life to the study of Nature. 



I3_ FlabelUform, the branchlets mostly coalescent and reticulated, the terminal ones free. 



LeptOgorgia AgaSSizii Verrill. (LitigoeCxIA Agassizh, 1st Ed.). 



Ehipidogorgia Agassizii {pars) Verrill, Bulletin Mus. Corap. Zool., p. 32, Jan., 1864. 



Gorgonia Agassizii {pars) YerriU, Proc. Boston See. Nat. Hist., x, p. 327, 1866. 

 Plate V, figure 4. 



Corallum forming very finely and regularly reticulated fans, usually 

 rounded in outline. Several flattened main branches arise from the 

 laro-e thickened and very short base and radiate across the fan, sub- 

 dividing so rapidly and regularly that they cannot often be traced 



