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Il. The polypes isolated in the prominent isolated spiculose sub- 
cylindrical cells, scattered on the sides, or forming tips of the 
branchlets. Spoggodia. 
3. SpoGGopEs uNICOLOR. (Woodcut, figs. 1, 2.) 
The coral uniform, pale yellowish (in spirits) ; the spicules very 
slender, whitish yellow; stem erect; branches scattered in all di- 
rections, spreading, tapering, with few short tapering branchlets ; 
cells distinct, distant, spreading, subcylindrical, sometimes very 
slightly contracted at the base; mouth surrounded by five or six 
unequal prominent spicules, the one on the outer side of the cell 
being generally the longest ; polypes retractile. 
Hab, Bellona Reefs, in 17 fathoms (Rayner). 
4. Spoccopes pivaricaTa. (Woodcut, figs. 3, 4.) 
Coral pale whitish (in spirits); stem thick, slightly branched, with 
very numerous crowded ramuli forming roundish lobes ; the ramuli 
divided at the top into three or five diverging cylindrical cells; the 
cells of the several branchlets forming a sort of roundish-topped 
eyme ; polypes contracted (in spirits), rose-coloured. 
Hab. New Guinea (Capt. Sir Edward Belcher, R.N., C.B.). 
5. SPoGGODES RAMULOSA. (Woodcut, figs. 5, 6.) 
The coral dark brown-red (in spirits); stem thick, much branched, 
strengthened by slender, elongated, fusiform, dark-brown-red spicules ; 
the branchlets numerous, elongate, slender, much branched, with the 
cells scattered on their sides; cells distant, subcylindrical, and 
fringed on the edge with unequally prominent spicules, the outer 
spicules being generally the longest and most prominent ; the polypes 
pale yellowish, being generally nearly contracted into the cells, rarely 
prominent. 
Hab. Bellona Reefs, at 17 fathoms. 
Some of the polypes on the lower part of the branchlets seem to 
be somewhat crowded. This species is easily known from S. florida 
and S. unicolor by the general colour of the coral and by the slender- 
ness and length of the branchlets. It agrees with the former in the 
coral and spicules being red, and the polypes being more or less pro- 
minent and of a different colour from the coral, and with the latter 
in form of the cell; but the cells are very differently disposed, and 
of a slender, attenuated form. 
We have in the British Museum a new form of the “ Aleyoniens 
armés” of M. Milne-Edwards (Coralliaires, vol. i. p. 127), which, in 
my idea, form a family that may be called Nepthyade. 
This coral differs from the three genera of this family mentioned 
by Milne-Edwards, in the lower part or stem being coriaceous and 
destitute of any spicules, and in the upper part being spiculose, and 
furnished with short clusters of polype-cells, giving it much the ap- 
pearance of the Fungi called Morchella and Helvella. 
