124 Mr. H. J. Carter on new Sponges. 
the nner side is covered with little pustuliform eminences, 
through which the excretory contents may have been elimi- 
nated, as there is no appearance of oscula in any other part. 
Spicule of one kind only, viz. acerate, curved, fusiform, sharp- 
pointed at each end, smooth; about 60 by 3-6000ths of an 
inch in its greatest dimensions. 
Loc. ? Australia. 
The specimen is in the British Museum, general collec- 
tion, numbered 557, and registered 59. 10. 7. 40. 
9. Reniera? calyx, Schmidt. 
(Spong. Adriatisch. Meeres, p. 76, Taf. vil. fig. 12.) 
I have already alluded to this species, of which the British 
Museum possesses a type specimen, No. 81, registered 67. 7. 
26. 71. It is large and goblet-shaped, 9 inches high, with a 
cup-shaped excavation 3 inches across the brim and 4 inches 
deep; covered with a smooth, thin, dark, dermal layer, under 
which is a coarse fibrous structure arranged, according to 
Schmidt’s examination of Esper’s specimen (see J. ¢.), im 
concentric layers, with a “simple vent” at the bottom of the 
cup. ‘The spicule, which is comparatively small for the size 
of the sponge, and of one kind only, is acerate, curved, fusi- 
form, sharp-pointed at both ends, and smooth, about 60 by 
2-6000ths inch in its greatest dimensions. 
Loc. Adriatic Sea. 
Although Schmidt considered this sponge a Renierid, he 
doubted, as may be seen by the note of interrogation after 
the generic name, as well as in his following description, 
whether it should be classed with the sponges that he was then 
describing. Its position, as I have not the opportunity of more 
closely reexamining the type specimen in the British Museum, 
is here placed among the Phlceodictyina provisionally. 
Fam. Suberitida. 
Group 12. Laxa. 
Suberttes stelligerus, Crtr., n. sp. 
Massive, conoidal, lobate, erect, sessile, somewhat com- 
pressed, contracted towards the base, expanded towards the 
centre, which, from the presence of vacuities below, appears 
to have been formed by the union of lobes or branches originally 
separate, finally terminating by subdivision of the mass into 
little conical processes over the upper third. Consistence fragile, 
tender. Colour now, in its apparently washed-out state, light 
grey. Surface villous, soft, uniformly covered with a pile 
formed of pinlike spicules arranged vertically, with their points 
