24 Dr. E. P.Wright on a new Genus of GorgonicUe. 



densely grouped all round the axis ; they are of large size and 

 are completely covered with spicules, which are closely packed 

 side by side. A variable number (nine to eleven) of long fusi- 

 form spicules surround the apical portion of the polype, form- 

 ing a calyx. Tentacles eight, pinnately lobed. 



Keratoisis Grayii, n. sp. 



Deep water off Setubal, on the coast of Portugal*. In the 

 Museum of the University of Lisbon, also the British Museum 

 and Museum of Trinity College, Dublin. 



I name the species after Dr. J. E. Gray, of the British 



Museum. 



Fig- l. 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 1 represents a portion of the main axis, deprived of coenenchynia 

 and of nearly all its polypes. 

 Fig. 2 represents a branch, of the natural size, with the polypes. 

 Fig. 3. A polype magnified. 



This Coral is of a loose irregular growth. The specimen 

 examined by me is about one foot in length, and gives off three 

 lateral branches : there is no apparent tendency in these to ana- 

 * Vide Annals & Mag. Nat. Hist. Dec. 1868, p. 427. 



