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



2. EUNOELLA. 



Coral crust-like, thin. Polypes large, convex when con- 

 tracted. 



Eunoella gorgonoides. (Alcyonium gorgonoides, Ellis & Soland. 

 Zooph. 101, t. 9. f. 12. Sympodtum gorgonoides, M.-Edw. 

 Sertularia gorgonfa, Pallas.) 

 Hah. West Indies. 



3. Stmpodium. 



Ehrenb. Corall. 61 ; M.-Edw. & Haime, Corall. i. 110; 

 Kolliker, Ic. Hist. 141, t. 19. f. 7-9. 



Coral expanded, fleshy, skin-like. Polype-cells small, pa- 

 pillose, not spined ; polype and tentacles retractile, leaving a 

 small superficial wart. Spicules fusiform or short, subcylin- 

 drical, tubercular or spinous. 



1. Sympodtum fuliginosum, Ehrenb., Savigny, Polyp. 1. 1. f. 6. 

 Hob. lied Sea. 



2. Sympodtum ccerideum, Ehrenb. 

 Hob. Red Sea. 



.'5. Sympodtum poriferum, Verrill, Proc. Boston S. N. H. 1866. 

 Hah. Panama. 



4. Erytheopodium. 

 Kolliker, Icon. Hist. 141 (1866), 1. 12. f. 10, 11, t. 9. f. 6. 



Coral incrusting, membranaceous ; flesh of the coral studded 

 with dark-red, large, subcruciate or snbcylindrical tubercular 

 spicules. Polype completely retractile into the cell, leaving 

 only a slight convex edge. Tentacles nearly cylindrical, 

 pectinate. 



Erythropodium earibbcearum, Kolliker. (Xenia car ibl>< varum, 

 Duchass. & Michel. Corall. Antilles, t. 1. f. 8-10.) 

 llah. West Indies. 



5. Ojeda. 



Duchass. & Michel. Corall. Antilles, 14, Supp. 104. 



Coral like Sympodtum. " Spicules, which resemble small 

 nummulites, are so minute as to be only seen by the aid of the 

 microscope; the edges arc deeply cut out; resembling a small 

 many-rayed star, nummulitiform." 



Ojeda luteola, Duchass. & Michel. Corall. Antilles, 14. 

 J lab. West Indies. 



