114 Mr. J. J. Quelch on new Stylasteride. 
and others were dead when the specimen was taken. ‘The 
species has many points of affinity with D. rosea, Kent, but 
differs strikingly in the structure and position of its cyclo- 
systems and its colour, J). rosea being almost of a deep 
peach-blossom red, with well-marked furrows throughout the 
coenosteum, although these are often irregularly interrupted, 
and with large elongated dactylopores. It seems probable 
that Tenison- Woods, who himself was doubtful of the identi- 
fication, has mistaken this form for D. rosea, K., since the 
additional characters which he has given belong to this 
species and not to D. rosea. 
Distichopora Milesii, n. sp. 
Coenosteum of a dull lake-red colour, branched, flabellate, 
compact, very slender, with an uneven granulated surface, 
irregularly canaliculated ; branches very small, even at their 
base, rounded ; branchlets short, small, obtuse, slightly com- 
pressed at the tips, and somewhat smaller than the branches ; 
cyclosystems arranged evenly on opposite sides in very dis~ 
tinct, deep, continuous lateral furrows; dactylopores small, 
placed in a line on the edges of the furrows, very elongated in 
a direction at right angles to this line; gastropores often un- 
equal, placed very close to each other, with but a narrow par- 
tition between them, having long, deep, thin, and finely 
hirsute styles; ampulle in raised crowded masses in which 
cells are almost undistinguishable, giving a warty appearance 
to the coenosteum. 
British Museum : received in exchange from the Brighton 
Museum, through the kindness of Dr. Miles of Brighton, 
after whom, in acknowledgment, the species has been named. 
Hab. South Sea Islands. The exact locality is unknown ; 
but as the specimen was growing on the same piece of rock 
as a very fine Stylaster stellulatus (Stewart), a species which 
has hitherto been recorded only from the Society and Paumotu 
Islands, it is probable that it was obtained in this region. 
The specimen of this species is about 3 centim. high, the 
branches and branchlets being about 24 and 14 millim. thick 
respectively. The only species to which it seems to be closely 
related is D. fragilis, Dana; but the description of this is 
so short, and its details so few, that its identification be- 
comes somewhat uncertain. Judging, however, by the figures 
of D. fragilis in the ‘ Atlas,’ which do not seem to me to re- 
present one species, D. Milesii can be easily distinguished 
by its dull lake-red colour and its rounded branches. Although 
agreeing somewhat in colour with D. cecetnea, Gray, yet 
its much more delicate and rounded form, and the structure of 
