Dr. A. Giinther on a Gigantic Species o/Batraclius. 131 



thf 3 SX t ^t^^f ""^"^'''''^ ''^'''^'''- ^" -" -^l^''^ of 

 o tWv! P ^Ji-'-^nc les, forming an ovate-lanceolate group 

 oi thjrse. Poljpe-cell cjlindrical, with a subglobular heaS 

 when the polype is contracted. gioouiar neact 



1. VerriUiana ramosa. {Alcyonium ramosum, Quoy & Gaim 



Voy. Astro . iv. 275 t 2^ '( '>< \\ a /i ^^™' 



Ilah. New Granada (Quoy). 



2. r^>7W«;m %..o/.Z.. (^„,„,,,^,« %.W^e., Ehrenb 



Nephthya thijrsoidea, Verrill.) ' 



^ai. Red Sea (Ehr.), Cape of Good Hope (Vemll). 



Fam. 12. Paralcyoniada. 



Coral membranaceous, branched above, smooth, with minute 

 dennal spicules near the mouths of the polypes ; 'the bodies of 

 the polyi^es opening into each other, making a common cav tf 

 The coral retractile into a tubular sheath covered with large 

 dermal spicules. Tentacles retractile. ^ 



Paralcyoxium, M.-Edw. [Alcyonidia, M.-Edw. 1835.) 

 Paralcyonium elegans, M.-Edw. Corall. i 130 t 1 « f 1 

 {Akyonidia elegans, M.-Edw. Ann. Sc. Nat.' 1835, 'iv.' 



Ilah. Algiers. 



^X.-Notice of a Gigantic Species of Batrachus from the 

 beychelle Islands. By A. Gunther, F.R.S. 



v.^,...,. .o.uuci iui uie oeyciieiles. To judge from the head 

 diis fish appears to be equal in bulk to any of the species of 

 UistwjjJwrus if, indeed, it does not exceed them in size I 

 was previously acquainted with this fish from a ijair of i'nw. 

 only, preserved in the British Museum for a long time • but I 

 was unable to form any opinion from these fragments' as re- 

 gards the systematic position of the fish to which they be- 

 longed. Although one character oi Batrachus, viz. prominent 

 spines o the opercles is absent, or at least not conspicuous in 

 the head befure me, its appearance and structure is that of the 

 species of this genus ; and as I do not know of a species to 

 which It maybe refen-ed, I regard this fish as uncLcribed 



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