174 Leuckart:Berichtüber die Leistungen in der Naturgeschichte 
basique tres-develloppe. (Sehr nahe verwandt dem Gen. Kophobelem- 
non, J. B. XXIII. S. 250.) 
Cavernularia M. Edw. Pennatuliens qui ressemblent aux Vere- 
tilles, mais qui manquent completement d’axe sclerobasique et ont le 
centre du polypieroide occupe par un large tube fistuleux divise 
longitudinalement en quatre cavites. 
Unter den der Familie der Gorgoniden zugehörenden neuen 
Arten sind viele schon von Valenciennes (J. B. XXIL. S. 427) 
unterschieden, bis jetzt aber noch unbeschrieben geblieben. 
Auch Gray charakterisirt einige neue Genera aus der 
Familie der Gorgoniden : 
Acanthogorgia. Coral branchy; branches free, cylindrical, 
slender, both of them almost entirely composed of transparent spicula ; 
cells elegantly bell-shaped, contracted at the bottom, and less so rather 
below the aperture, spinulose, with eight equidistant lines of two or 
three series of diverging short spines; the mouth of the cell surroun- 
ded with numerons diverging, very slender, transparent, elongate 
spines, nearly as long as the cell. Axis horny, black, more slender 
and brown near the tips. 
Sp. n. A. hirsuta. Gray, Ann. and Mag. nat. hist. P. XX. 
p. 461. (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1857. June.) 
Sarcogorgia. The coral rather irregularly furcately branched 
on a single plane. The axis black, ceylindrical, thick at the base, 
with slender flexible branchlets. The bark fleshy; in the dry state 
thin, like a continuous skin, smooth, without spicula, with rather close, 
more or less raised cells, strengthened with a quantity of sandlike, 
granular spieula. 
Sp. n. S. Phidippus. Gray. 
Subergorgia. Coral furcately branched, rather compressed, with 
a continued sunken groove up the middle of each side. Cells rather 
prominent convex, in {two or three somewhat irregular series up 
each edge. Axis pale brown, wart-like, formed of rather loosely con- 
centric fibrous laminae, containing a large quantity of calcareous 
matter and efferveseing wilh muriatic acid. The bark when dry is 
rather thin, smooth, hard and granular within. 
Sp. n. S. suberosa. Gray, ibid. p. 519. Alle drei von unbe- 
kanntem Fundort. 
Ebenso erhielten wir auch von Macdonald eine Mit- 
theilung über einen neuen Polypen aus der Familie der Al- 
eyoniden, der sich durch einen dichotomisch verästelten Stanım 
auszeichnet und zunächst mit Sarcodyction verwandt zu sein 
scheint. Ann. and Mag. nat. hist. Vol. XIX. p. 391. 
