554 DR. J. E. GRAY ON SPONGES. [May 9, 



Synopsis of Families. 



1. Grantiad^. Sponge tubular or massive. Outer surface hispid, 



covered w^itli three-rayed spicules. 



2. Alcyoncellid^. Sponge tubular, simple or branched. Outer 



surface even, tessellated. 



3. Aphrocerasid^. Sponge tubular, branched. Outer surface 



covered with fusiform spicules, arranged longitudinally, and in- 

 ternally reticulated. 



Fam. 1. GRANTIADiE. 



Sponge tubular or massive, pierced with a tubular cloaca. Outer 

 surface strengthened with three-rayed spicules. 



* Sponge tubular, isolated, or clustered. 

 1. Grantia, Bowerb. B. Sp. i, p. 102. 



Sponge tubular, fusiform, globular or bag-like, his])id. Oscules 

 terminal, surrounded by a single series of cilia. Spicules triradiate; 

 rays equiangular, elongate. 



Grantia, sp., Fleming, B. A. (not Nardo). 



S]fcon, Lieberkiihn, Arch, fiir Anat. 18G0; O. Schmidt, S. Ad. 

 p. 13; Supp. i. p. 22, 1862. 



Grantia ciliata, Fleming, B. A. ; Johnston ; Bowerb. B. S. 

 p. 176, t. 20. f. 45, t. 21. f. 6, 7, 345, 346a. B.M. 



Spongia ciliata. Fab. 

 S.panicea, Esper, t. 18. 



Grantia pulverulenta, Johnston, B. S. p. 180. B.M. 

 Spongia coronata, Ellis & Solander, Zooph. t. 58. f, 9. 

 Calcispongia ciliata et C. pulverulenta, Blainv. Man. Act. 

 Scypha coronata et -S". ovata. Gray, B. Plants, i. p. 357. 

 Spongia injlata, Delle Chiaje, iii. t. 37- f. 16, 17. 

 Sycon ciliata, O. Schmidt, Sp. Ad. p. 14, t. 1. f. 1 a. 

 Lieberkuhnea ciliata, O. Schmidt. 



See also — 



Grantia asperutn (Syeo?i asperum), O. Schmidt, Sp. Ad. p. 15, 

 t. 1. f. 4, 4a; Supp. ii. t. 1. f. 5. B.M. 



G. humboldtii (Sycon humboldtii), O. Schmidt. 

 G. raphanus (S. raphanus), O. Schmidt. 

 G. setosa (S. setosus), O. Schmidt. 



2. Ute, O. Schmidt, S. A. p. 16 ; Supp. p. 23. 



Sponge tubular, solitary, sac-shaped or fusiform, more or less pe- 

 dunculated. Oscules terminal, not crowned with a series of cilia. 



I. Ute capillosa, O. Schmidt, S. Ad. p. 17, t. I. f. 6. 

 Ute glabra, O. Schmidt, Supp. i. p. 23, t. 3. f. 1. 



