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Antipathes eupteridea Lamx. 



Plate III. Fig. 11. 



The very scanty description of this species, the type of which came from. 

 Martinique, leaves it a little doubtful if our specimen can be referred to it. 

 Lamouroux compared his specimen to a peacock's feather. Ours is branching, 

 resembling very much some of the larger Plumidaridce, — Cladocmya paradisea 

 Allm., for instance. The specimen, the main stem of which was dead at the 

 top, must have been about 40 to 50 cm. high. The pinnules are 40 mm. long. 

 The spines are nearly cylindrical, rather dense, subequal, very little longer 

 about the polyps. The polyps are very small and sessile. 



Station 203, 96 fathoms, off Martinique. 



Antipathes salix Pourt. n. sp. 



Plate III. Fig. 8, 



Irregularly branching, with long slender pinnules, not disposed in any par- 

 ticular order, the whole appearing somewhat like a miniature weeping-willow. 

 The spines are equal, long triangular, somewhat hooked upward, rather close 

 set. On the larger branches they form longitudinal rows, more or less regular. 

 The polyps are very small and inconspicuous, of the sessile type. 



It resembles somewhat ArachnojMthes paniculata Duch. & Mich, (non 

 Esper), but is more flexuous, has no coalescent branches, and the spines are 

 not in verticils. 



Station 171, 183 fathoms, oflf Guadeloupe. 



Antipathes rigida Pourt. n. sp. 



Plate III. Fig. 12. 



A small specimen, differing from the preceding only in being stiffer, with 

 thicker pinnules and occasional coalescences of branches. The spines are very 

 much like those of the preceding species, only not quite as densely set. The 

 polyps are of the same type. 



Station 273, 103 fathoms, off Barbados. 



Antipathes eolumnaris Duch. 



Plate III. Fig. 3. 



The spines are very small, triangular, and blunt, somewhat longer at the tip 

 of the pinnules. The polyps are rather abundant on the network forming the 

 tube for the parasitic worm. 



Range from 73 to 861 fathoms, in sixteen stations, off Guadeloupe, Marti- 

 nique, Dominica, Virgin Gorda, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, and 

 Barbados. 



