Dr. J. E. Gray on the Fleshy Alcyonoid Corals. 119 



.Anthelia. 



Savigny, MS. ; Lamarck, A. s. V. ii. 407 ; Lamx. ; Blainv. ; 

 Dana, Zooph. 602; M.-Edw. & Haime, Corall. i. 109: 

 Kolliker, Ic. Hist. 132. 



Polypes not retractile, not branched by budding ; the tentacles 

 only retractile. Polype-body subcylindrical, prominent, from 

 an expanded basal plate. 



1. Anthelia glauca, Sav. Egypte, t. 1. f. 7. 

 Hab. Red Sea. 



2. Anthelia strumosa, Ehr. 

 Hab. Red Sea. 



3. Anthelia pupurascens } Ehr., Sav. Egypte, t. 1. f. 5. 

 Hab. Red Sea. 



4. Anthelia Filippi, Kolliker, Ic. Hist. 132, t. 18. f. 41, 42. 

 Hab. Guadeloupe. 



5. Anthelia lineata, Verrill, t. 6. f. 9. 

 Hab. Hongkong. 



6. Anthelia Dujardinii\ Dana. (Xenia Ditjardinii, Templeton, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. i 



Hab. Isle of France. 



Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. 25, f. 3-7. 



Fam. 2. Sympodiadse. 



Polype and tentacles completely retractile into the skin-like 

 or crustaceous coral. 



1. Massarella. 



Coral irregular-shaped, attached to the horny axis of a 

 Gorgonia ; outer surface hard, crustaceous, smooth ; internal 

 cork-like. Polypes completely retractile. 



1. Massarella coralloides j B. M. [Gorgonia coralloides, Pallas, 



Zooph. 192; Esper, t. 32. Sympodium coralloides, Ehr. 

 C.r. M. 61.) 

 Hab. ? 



2. Massarella rosea. (Synvpodium roseum, Ehrenb.) 

 Hab. West Indies. 



3. Massarella vera. (Sympodium verum, Duchass. & Michel. 



Suppl. 104.) 

 Hab. West Indies. 



See Anthozoanthus parasiticus, Desh., Schleiden, Das Meer, 

 t. 4, said to be a Lobular ia on a Gorgonia. 



