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warty, blunt, quite variable in form au'l size. Double-wheels small, 

 about as long as broad, with small wheels very close together, and 

 with the axis projecting but slightly at the ends. The long double- 

 spindles are •r20"''" by -OiS"'", -120 by -042, and -120 by -036; the 

 stouter double-spindles -084 by -054, -084 by -048, and '096 by -054 ; 

 the double-wheels -042 by -042, and -048 by -042. 



Pearl Islands, 6 to 8 fathoms by divers, — F. II. Bradley ; La Paz, — 

 J. Pedersen (var, exGelsci)f Corinto, — J. A. McNiel. 



This species resembles E. (tmpla., but is more densely ramulous, and 

 has shorter, curved branchlets, instead of long, erect ones. Its spicula 

 are similar, but the double-Avheels are smaller and more rounded. 



B. — Fldbelliform. Branches hqnnaate and tripinnate, not coalescent. Gdls prominent. 



Eugorgia Daniana Vemii, sp. nov. 



Plate V, figure 14. Plate VI, figure 7. 



Corallum densely ramose in one plane, forming broad, rounded, 

 fan-shaped fronds. Near the base the short, thick, compressed trunk 

 divides into several large, divergent, compressed, main branches. 

 These give oft', pinnately from each edge, at intervals of a quarter of 

 an inch or less, short, slender branchlets, and occasional longer branch- 

 es, which are similar to the primary ones. These again subdivide 

 pinnately, in the same manner, part of the pinnae remaining short and 

 simple, while others elongate into branches, which again subdivide, 

 producing similar simple l^ranchlets, and some branches that subdi- 

 vide again. The final branchlets are slender and short, varying in 

 length from 'IS to '30 of an inch, very seldom '50, with a diameter 

 of about •0(5. The verrucoe are small, prominent, higher than broad, 

 conical, crowded on all sides of the branchlets. Surface of the 

 branches and cells distinctly granular with the naked spicula. Color 

 l>right yellow, streaked and l)lotched with dark red both upon the 

 branches and cells. Axis strongly compressed, black in the main 

 branches, setaceous and rigid in the branchlets, where it becomes 

 translucent and brownish. 



Height 10 inches; bi-eadth 14; diameter of trunk -22; of main 

 branches '15. The spicula are deep red and bright yellow, intermin- 

 gled. Long double-spindles slender, acute, Avith a wide median space, 

 and about four whorls of well separated warts on each end, those 

 next to the median space considerably the largest, the others dimin- 

 ishing toward the ends, where they become very small. Some are less 

 slender, but similar in length and structure. Stout double-spindles 



* The La Paz specimens {var. excelsa) are large and tall, with elongated branches, but 

 the spicula are smaller and more slender. Color brown or yellowish-brown. — Reprint. 



