38 MISS RUTH M. HARRISON OX NEW ALCYONARIA 



warty projections ; size very various, some are straight, some curved. Spicules of partition- 

 walls thicker spindles covered with rough warts. Polyp-spicules : crown with about 

 five transverse rows; points with four converging spicules. Tentacles with a single 

 row of transverse spicules. 



Colour. Violet-red ; polyps bright yellow. 



Ilab. Admiralty Islands. 



0-5 x 005. 



C. siphonoffoniica .' . . 23 x 03 to 1*3 x 0-2. T45 x 0-15. 



C.flavocapitata .... 115 X 0-1. 1-25 x 0-12 to 0G5 x 004. 



1-1 x 005 to 0-7 X 07. 0-25 X 0'02. 



C. purpurea 3-85x0-3. 04 x 0-02 to 0-15 x 0-02. 



1-5 X 0-15 to 055 x 005. 



G. planoramosa .... 28x0-35. 03x0-02. 



1-0 X 01. 



< . anriulata 3 - 35 x 3 5. 



2-0 x 0-2 to 0-4 x 0-05. 0-2 x 0-02. 



C. gracilis 1-8 X 0-2. 0-17x0-017. 



1-35 x 007 to 03 x 002. 



C.hicksoni 3 7 X 0-47 to 2-95 0-25. 1-8 x 0-3 to 1-1 x 0\2. 



1-35 x 0-15. 0-45 x 004. 

 0-55 x 0-05. 



C. retractilis 2-35 x 024 to 07 x 0"05. 0-2 x 0-02. 



Si/i/ioitufforgia. 



8. pustulosa 1-3 x 0-25 to 0-37 x 0-1. 1-05 x 02. 



45 x 0-15. 0-2 x 0-03. 



S. rotunda 1-15x0-12. 17 X 0"23. 



0-75 x 0-07. 

 0-15 x 003. 



