88 



A single specimen from another locality is more slender and graceful, and 

 1ms a different colour scheme. It is whitish-yellow, with the tips of the calyces 

 pinkish. 



Locality : Station 321 ; 5 4' 8|" N., 80 22' E. ; 660 fathoms. 



Previously recorded from: 63 06' N., 56 W. ; 61 39' N., 17 10' \V. 

 (Jungersen); South-west of Nantucket Island; 39 59' 45" N., 68 54' W. 

 (Verrill) ; and 4' S., 90 24' 30" W., 23 59' N., 108 40' W., 1 7' N., 80 21' W. 

 (Studer). 



The bathymetrical range varies from 700-1573 fathoms. 



Family KOPIIOBELEMNOXID^E. 



Kophobelemnon burgeri, Herklots, var. indica, n. 

 Sclerobelemnon kollikeri, n. sp. 

 Batliyptilum indicum, n. sp. 

 Thesioides inermis, u. g. et sp. 



Kophobelemnon burgeri, Herklots, var. indica, u. 



This species is represented by a beautiful club-shaped colony, 57 mm. in height, 

 with a pointed upper end. 



The stalk is shorter than the club-shaped rachis. 



The axis is white, almost cylindrical in shape, extending the whole length of 

 the colony and tapering gradually to its lower end, where it has a diameter of about 

 0'5 mm. 



The rachis is club-shaped, and tapers to a point at its upper end. It reaches 

 its maximum diameter, 5 mm. , at a point 4 mm. from its apex. 



The autozooids are arranged irregularly on the pararachidial surfaces in five 

 rows. They are of medium length, and are capable of complete retraction. At a 

 certain stage of contraction they seem to have distinct calyces marked off from 

 the upper part of the polyps. Their walls contain spicules, and in the lowest part 

 of the walls these are very numerous, arranged longitudinally in eight bands 

 with a few spicules between. Farther up these bands become narrow zig/ag 

 streaks with transversely placed spicules, but this transverse arrangement seems 

 to be due to the contraction of the polyp walls. In the tentacles there are longer 

 needle-shaped spicules arranged longitudinally. 



The whole surface of the colon)- is covered by an outer coating of spicules which 

 are visible to the naked eye and give a whitish appearance to the specimen. On 

 the rachis this outer covering forms a honeycomb with the siphonozooids in the 

 cells. 



The siphonozooids are numerous, brown in colour, and present an eight-rayed 

 appearance. They occur over the whole surface of the rachis not occupied by auto- 



