BY R. VON LENDENFELD, PH.D. ]087 



0-007. Lateral rays 0-04— 0-05 x 0-003— 0-004 mm. Rays 

 conic, rounded at the end, rarely with a slight stricture just 

 below. Auloplegniaform with Pseudo-osculum ; a reticulate colony 

 like guancha blanca (1). The canals (Ascon-individuals) with 

 small inhalent pores on the outer side and larger exhalent pores 

 towards the Pseudo-ga^ter. 



(Ti-ansition form between Asconidse and Nardopsidje.) 

 Colonies 3-10 mm. high, peduncle as long, or longer than the 

 reticulated part of the body. 



Locality : East coast of Australia (Port Jackson), Laminarian 

 zone. Von Lendenfeld. 



2. GENUS. ASCALTIS. Haeckel (-2.) 



Asconidce with tri- and quadriradiate spicules. Without acerate 

 spicules. 



7. SPECIES. ASCALTIS LAMARCKII. Haeckel (3.) 

 LE aCOSOLENIA LAMARCKII. N. Pol^jaeff (4. ) 



Tri- and quadriradiates regular. gome of the triradiates three 

 times as large as the other triradiates and the quadriradiates. 

 Quadriradiates and small triradiates with rays 0-08 — 0-12 x 0-004 

 — 0-006. The large triradiates with rays 0-2—0-3 x 0-015— 

 0-02 mm. Auloplegma form. Spherical 5-20 mm. in diameter. 



Locality: East Coast of Australia, (Port Jackson, Challenger.) 

 30-35 fathoms. 



3. GENUS. ASCANDRA. Haeckel (5.) 

 Asconidae with triradiate, quadriradiate and acerate spicules. 



IV^'l h" ^' ^"''^^^y.' Jenaische Zeitschrit fiir Naturwissenschaft, Band 



(2.) E. Haeckel. Die Kalkschwamme. Eine Monographic Band II 

 Seite 5L ' 



(3.) E. Haeckel. L.c. Band IL, Seite 60; Taf. IX., %. 5 ; Taf X 

 fig. 4 a-d. ° ■' 



(4.) N. PoUjaeff. Report on the Caloarea. The Zoology of the Vova^e 

 of H.M.S. Challenger, Tart. XXIV., p. 36. ^^ 



(5.) E. Haeckel. L.c. Band II. , Seite 80, 



