SUBORDER A I. CYONARIA. 683 



Flabelliform, much branched in a plane ; branches suberect and 

 flexuous, branchlets often subreticulately coalescing, thickly ver- 

 rucose. 



East Indies. Peron 4- Lesueur. 



The colours of this species are various, but mostly some bright 

 shade of red or yellow. 



Isis aurantia, Esper, Forts., ii., Isis, tab. 9. nodoso, in flabellum tenuissimum expla- 



Melitcea retifera, Lamk., ii. 472, No. 2. nato ; ramulis numerosis, filiformibus, 



, Lamour., Pol. flex., 463. reticulatim coalescentibus ; catenarum an- 



, Blainville, Man., 504. nulis elongatis." " Austral Seas. Peron 



, Ehrenb., G. Ixxvii., sp. 2. and Lesueur." See Lamouroux, Exp. 



The Melittea textiformis, of Lamarck (No. Meth., pi. 71, figure 5. A variety of the 



3), is thus described : " M. caule brevi, retifera 1 



3. MELIT^EA COCCINEA. 



M. pumila, in piano ramulosa, ramis gradlibus (!'"), tortuosis, divari- 

 catis, scepe retictdatim coalitis, internodiis obsoletis ; verrucis sub- 

 sparsis. 



Small, branching in a plane ; branches slender (1 line thick), tortuous, 

 divaricate, often reticulately coalescing; internodes obsolete, verrucae 

 rather remotely scattered. 



This species much resembles the retifera, but differs, according to 

 Lamarck, in having the verruca? less prominent and not so crowded. 

 Specimens in the Expedition collections, from New Holland, present 

 yellow, buff, rose-red, and scarlet colours. 



Indian Ocean. New Holland. Exp. Exp. 



Isis coccinea, Ellis and Sol., 107, tab. 12, Melitaa Rissoi, Lamour., Pol. flex., 463; 



fig. 5. Exp. Meth., 38, pi. 12, fig. 5. 

 , Espcr, i., Isis, tab. 3 A, fig. 5, (copy Melitcea coccinea, Lamk., ii. 473. 



from Ellis), and Forts, ii., Isis, tab. , Blainville, Man., 504. 



10. , Ehrenberg, op. cit., G. Ixxvii., sp. 3. 



4. MELITJEA TENELLA. (Dana.) 

 M. fruticulosa, 3" alia, coccinea; ramulosa, ramis ramulisque gracil- 



