OCTINEON LINDAHLI. 461 



Octineon Lindahli (W. B. Carpenter) : an Un- 

 described Anthozoon of Novel Structure. 



By 



G. Herbert Fowler, B.A., Ph.D., 



Demonstrator iu Zoology, University College, Loudon. 



With Plates 29 and 30. 



This interesting form, dredged during the cruise of H.M.S. 

 "Porcupine^' in 1870, was originally studied by Dr. W. B. 

 Carpenter, from whose drawings two plates were lithographed 

 for publication in the ' Philosophical Transactions' of the Royal 

 Society ; but unfortunately no account of the investigation 

 was found among his papers. The specimens were then en- 

 trusted for description to my honoured teacher. Professor 

 H. N. Moseley ; and on the last occasion that I saw him he 

 talked to me with his customary infectious enthusiasm about 

 this Anthozoon, on which he was at the moment engaged. He, 

 however, was unable to finish the work, and the late Dr. Philip 

 Carpenter then asked me to undertake it. Professor Moseley 

 left only a description of Dr. Carpenter's figures and an intro- 

 duction to his own paper ; the latter, although only a rough 

 draft, is printed here without alteration of any kind : 



" In their ' Report on Deep Sea Researches,' carried on 

 during the months of July, August, and September, 1870, in 

 H.M. Surveying Ship ' Porcupine,' Dr. Carpenter and Mr. 

 Gwyn Jefi'reys (' Proc. Roy. Soc.,' 1871, p. 159), in their nar- 

 rative of their first cruise, state as follows : — ' The most 

 remarkable novelty here [ofi' the south coast of Spain, not far 

 from Cape St. Vincent, in 364 fathoms] obtained was a large 



