ly 



Alcyonarians from the Gulf of Cutch. 



conclusion. We think tliat J. gemmacea should be merged 

 in J. juncea. 



Locality. S.W. of Beyt Island. 



(8) Virgularia rumphii, Kolliker. — Wo liave referred two 

 specimens to this specie.*, altliough they differ in some obvious 

 features, which appear to us, however, to have only quanti- 

 tative importance. They agree witii V. rumphii in having 

 close-set pinnules with crowded polyps and with peculiar 

 interlocking on the metarachidial surface, in having very 

 numerous undeveloped pinnules (9G-120 on eacli side), and in 

 many other respects. They differ in having S.i-TO polyps on 

 a pinnule instead of 40-44, in showing no distinct siphono- 

 zooids (probably because of imperfect tixJTig), in having a 

 more slender axis, and so on, but they are much nearer to 

 V. rumphii than to any other species. In their very nume- 

 rous polyps they suggest F. muhicalycina, Thomson and 

 Henderson, but the calices of the latter are exceedingly well 

 defined, whereas they are indistinct in those from Cutch. 



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