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basique tres-develloppe. (Sehr nahe verwandt dem Gen. Kophobelem- 

 non, J. B. XXIII. S. 250.) 



CaKernularia 31. Edw. Pennatuliens qui resseinl'lent aux Vere- 

 tilles, mais qui nianquent completeiiieut d'a\e 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 (.?. B. XXII. S. 427) 

 unterschieden, bis jetzt aber noch unbeschrieben geblieben. 



Auch Gray charakterisirt einige neue Genera aus der 

 Familie der Gorgoniden : 



Acanlhocjorqia. 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 niouth of the cell snrroun- 

 ded Avith numerous diverging, very slender, transparent, clongate 

 spines, nearly as long as the cell. A\is horny, black, niore slender 

 and brown near the tips. 



Sp. n. A. kirsula. Gray, Ann. and Mag. nat. bist. P. XX. 

 p. 461. (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1857. June.) 



Sarcogorgia. The coral rather irregularly furcately branched 

 on a Single plane. The axis black, cylindrical, 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, 

 granulär spicula. 



Sp. n. iS. Pliidippus. Gray. 



Subergorgia. Coral- furcately branched, rather compressed, with 

 a continued sanken groove up the niiddle of each side. Cells rather 

 prominent convex , in two or three somewhat irregulär series up 

 each edge. Axis pale brov/n, wart-like, fornied of rather loosely con- 

 centric fibrous laniinae, containing a large quantity of calcareous 

 matter and effervescing with niuriatic acid. The bark when dry is 

 rather thin, smooth, hard and granulär within. 



Sp. n. S. svherosa. Gray, ibid. p. 519. Alle drei von unbe- 

 kanntem Fundort. 



Ebenso erhielten wir auch von Macdonald eine Mit- 

 Iheilung über einen neuen Polypen aus der Faniilie der Al- 

 cyoniden, der sich durch einen dichotomisch verästelten Stamm 

 auszeichnet und zunächst mit Sarcodyction verwandt zu sein 

 scheint. Ann. and Mag. nat. hist. Vol. XIX. p. 391. 



