On Deep-Sea Alci/onarutfroni the IiuUan Ocean. 547 



are only moderately coarse. Elytra oblong-oval, Tniich 

 narrowed posteriorly ; they are punctate-striate on the disk ; 

 towards the base and sides the punctures are distinct, but the 

 strise are not ; the interstices are plane and minutely and 

 closely sculptured. Antennce sparsely ]jubescent. 



Underside with a ^tw small grey setaj ; the prosternum 

 with some coarse shallow punctures, the ventral segments 

 finely sculptured. 



Length (rostr. incl.) 2^, breadth | line. 



Auckland Lslands. 



Described from one example found amongst moss in July 

 1903 by ]\Ir. L. Cockayne, in Avhose honour it has been 

 named. The specimen was forwarded to me bv Professor 

 Chilton. 



Auckland, 

 17th March, 1905. 



I.XX.Ul.—Natvral History Notes from the R.I.M.S. Ship 

 'Investigator/ Capt. T. H. Heminy, R.N., commanding. — 

 Series III., No. 7. Preliminary Report on the Deep-Sea 

 Alcyonaria collected in the Indian Ocean. By Prof. J. 

 Arthur Thomson, M.A., and W. D. Hendersox, M.A., 

 Carnegie Scholar, University of Aberdeen. 



A RICH and interesting collection of Deep- Sea Alcyonarians 

 dredged in the Indian Ocean by the ' Investigator ' was 

 entrusted to us for examination and report by Prof. A. 

 Alcock, LL.D., F.R.S., of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 

 As a second consignment received this year has more than 

 doubled the original collection, it has seemed advisable to 

 publish a brief preliminary notice of those forms which we 

 have been able to examine. We have not in this communi- 

 cation given anything like full diagnoses of the new forms 

 or more than a few measurements; we have merely indi- 

 cated the general nature of the first consignment of the 

 collection. We hope to complete the report in the course 

 of this year. 



Provisional List of Species. 



I, sp. n. Sarcophvtiim j 



n. liingifbrn 



Clavularia decipiens, .sp. u. Spongodes rosea, Kilkeidhal. 



Sympodium indicum, sp. n. Sarcophvtiim paivuni, ,sp. n. 

 incriistans, sp. n. liingifbrme, sp n 



