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VII. 



A EEVISIOX OF THE GOEGONELLIDAE ; 



GEOUP. 



1. THE JUNCELLID 



By JAMES J. SDIPSOX, M.A., B.Sc, 

 Cai'negie Eesearch Fellow, Zoological Department, University of Aberdeen. 



Plates I-XIX. 



[Read February 28. Ordered for Piiblicatioa March 2. Published August 19, 1910.] 



CONTENTS. 



I'ACK 



. Scirpearia emend., . .61 



(a) Discussion of the 



genus, . . .61 

 (i) Classification of the 

 species, . . .63 

 Scirpearia profunda emend., . 66 

 Scirpearia hicksoni, . . 68 



, Scirpearia verrucosa, . . 70 

 Scirpearia anomala, . .71 

 Scirpearia pectinata emend., . 73 

 Scirpeaiia elongata emend., . 79 

 Scirpearia flagellum emend., . 82 

 Scirpearia thomsoni . . 87 



Scirpearia alba . . .88 

 Scirpearia aurantiaca emend., . 90 

 Sciipearia furcata emend., 93 



Scii-pearia andamanensis . . 106 

 Scirpearia ramosa . . . 108 

 Scirpeaiia ceylonensis . .109 

 Scirpearia niaculala .111 



Scirpearia quadrilineal a. . 112 



Xicella emend., . . .114 

 (a) Discussion of the 



genus . .111 



{b) Classification of the 

 species with emended 



I. — Introduction. 

 Systematic description of Alcyonarians is beset with many difliculties, 

 sometimes due to our ignorance of intimate structure — as in the case of the 



