312 A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands; Coral Reefs. 
The spicula of the cenenchyma consist of larger and smaller warty 
spindles, some often very large, and of a dense superficial layer of 
smaller rough, warty or spinulated, club-shaped or irregular spicules 
of various forms, giving the surface a roughly granular appearance 
under a lens. The calicles may be low or high, 8-lobed or bilabiate. 
Axis horny. Besides the species here described, several other West 
Indian species (or varieties) belong to Huniceopsis; among them are: 
£. crassa (Edw. and H.); 4. Rousseaui (EK. and H.); 2. multicauda 
(Lam.); Z. aspera Duch. and M.; &. hirta D. and M.; £&. laciniata 
D. and M., and & dugubris D. and M. 
Euniceopsis Tourneforti (Edw. and Haime) Ver. Figures 158-160. Plate 
XxxviB, figs. 1, 2, spicules. 
Eunicea Tourneforti Edw. and Haime, Corall., i, p. 150, 1857. Verrill, these 
Trans., x, p. 570, 1900. Nutting, op. cit., pp. 142-151, pls. viii, ix, 1889. 
?Gorgonia (Eunicea) pseudo-antipathes Dana, Zodph., p. 671, 1846 (not of 
Lam., which was a Muricea, t. Edw. and H.,i, p. 148). Heilprin, Bermuda 
Is., p. 104 (no description). 
160 
Figure 158.—Euniceopsis Tourneforti. Portion of a terminal branch, x about 34 
times, 
Figure 159.—The same, section of a branchlet, x about 3 times. 
Figure 160.—The same, portion more enlarged. Drawn by A. H. Verrill. 
This is a large, stout, stiff species, with thick, forking, upright, 
blunt branches, dark brown or nearly black in color. It is easily 
distinguished from most of the allied species by the large prominent, 
somewhat conical calicles with the bilabiate aperture on the upper 
side and the lower lip prolonged and curved upward and inward 
(fig. 158). 
The cenenchyma is thick and hard, filled with rather large, very 
stout, and mostly fusiform spicules (fig. 160), but with a smoothish 
or subgranular surface. The axis in the terminal branches is rela- 
tively small and soft, shrinking much and becoming brittle when 
