70 Dr. Til. Stnder on new Siyecies of 



Bjpongodes gJomerata^ n. sp. 



The colony forms a low bush, which appears to be divided 

 into several spherical lobes. It is of a whitish colour, with 

 reddish polyp-heads. Height 12 millim., breadth 45 millim. 

 The short stem divides shortly above the base into diverging 

 branches, which are covered from the commencement with 

 polyp-bearing lobules ; these arise from a very rapid rami- 

 fication of the twigs, which bear bundles of polyps at the ends. 

 The lobules are spherical, from 6 to 9 millim in diameter, 

 and contain up to twenty polyp-heads, each surmounted by a 

 stout spicule 2 millim. long. The folded tentacles, armed 

 with small spicules arranged en chevron , form an eight-lobed 

 operculum. The consistence of the whole is soft and yielding. 



The species is most nearly related to S. Savignii (Ehrbg.), 

 "which also it most resembles in external habit. 



Locality. Japan. Collected by Dr. Doederlein. 



Spongodes punicea, n. sp. 



An upright branched colony, 50 millim. high and 40 mil- 

 lim. in diameter, with a short stem and a lobose head, crowded 

 with polyps. Colour purplish red, with yellowish-white polyp- 

 heads. The stem rises from an incrusting base ; it has a thick- 

 ness of 10 millim. and a height of 10 millim., and then divides 

 into thick branches, which, after a short course, terminate in 

 somewhat flattened twigs. Previous to the final ramification 

 they give off also several small branchlets, which come off at right 

 angles. The ramification of the terminal twigs, which latter 

 are about 2 millim. thick, takes place in a corymbose manner^ 

 in which the three to six terminal twigs bear the polyp-heads 

 laterally, the polyp-heads being surmounted by bundles of 

 spicules. The terminal twigs diverging from separate lobes of 

 5 to 10 millim. in diameter, which bear from ten to twenty 

 calices. The two large spicules at the base of the tentacles 

 converge A -like and form an operculum. 



Locality. Japan. Collected by Dr. Doederlein. 



Spongodes pwmilio^ n. sp. 



The colony forms a low lobose mass, 25 millim. high and 

 85 millim. broad ; of a whitish colour, with red polyp-heads, 

 surmounted by silvery white bundles of spicules. A short 

 trunk divides near its base into several thick branches, which 

 are horizontally expanded. Each of these branches divides 

 at the end into several divergent twigs, first, however, giving 



