1899.] OOBALS TEOM FUNAFUTI. 53 



separated localities, and may be compared with the distribution of 

 Acanthogorgia muricata Verrill, which occurs at Funafuti and has 

 been recorded from Barbados. 



SUBEKOGOKGUA VBEKIOULATA Esper. 



There are two fragments of this species, drab in colour. 



The double-star spindles are somewhat rougher than those 

 figured in Kolliker's paper (2), otherwise the form seems to belong 

 to Esper's species. 



Hah. Outer slope of the coral-reef at Funafuti. 



Literature referred to. 



1. DuoHASSAiNG, P., et MiCHELLOTi, Gr. — Memoire sur les Coral- 



liaires des Antilles. Turin, 1S60. 



2. KoLLiKER, A. — Icones Histiologicae. Leipzig, 1860. 



3. EiDLEY, S. 0.—" Contributions to the Knowledge of the 



Alcyonaria, with Descriptions of new Species from the 

 Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal." Annals & Magazine 

 of Natural History, ix., 1882. 



4. Verrill, A. — " Report on the Anthozoa, and on some additional 



Species dredged by the ' Blake,' 1877-79, and the U.S. Fish- 

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 1883. 



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" Alcyonaria," Melanesian Collections. Part L, 1884. 



6. Von Koch, Gr.— "Die Grorgoniden des Grolfes von Neapel." 



Fauna u. Flora des Grolfes von Neapel, xv., 1887. 



7. Wright, E. P., & Studer, Th.— ' Challenger ' Eeport on Alcyo- 



naria, xxxi., 1889, 



8. GrERMANOS, N. K.— " Gorgonaceen von Ternate." Die Ab- 



handlungen der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesell- 

 schaft, Band xxiii. Heft 1, 1896. 



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the Australian Museum, iii. pt. 5, 1897. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate I. 



Fig. 1. Verrucella granifera, p. 52. A branch, natural size. 



2. Verrucella granifera. Some spicules. 



3. Acamptogorgia spinosa, n. sp., p. 47. A small portion of a branch, 



magnified, to show the arrangement of the spicules. 



4. Acamptogorgia spinosa. The crown of a polyp, magnified, to show 



the arrangement of the opercular spicules. 



5. Acamptogorgia spinosa. Some spicules, {a) of the operculum, (6) of 



the cceuenchyma. 



6. Acanthogorgia muricata, p. 48. A polyp, magnified. 



7. Acanthogorgia muricata. Some spicules, (a) of the operculum, ih) of 



the coenenchyma, (c) of the polyp. 



