THE GORGONIANS OF THE BRAZILIAN COAST. 397 



The larger spicules from the type of Edwards and Haime (slide No. 18 

 Koll.) are mostly rather slender, elongate, acute, strongly warted double-spindles! 

 with the high warts rather openly placed in about three whorls on mch half. 

 With these are some equally large double-spindles with smaller and closer warts 

 and many irregular forms, with a few small crosses. There are also smaller and 

 shorter spindles with elevated warts. The scaphoids are often nea iy as large as 

 the spindles. The convex side is strongly convex, often with a few 

 humps; the concave side has about three irregular pairs of prominent 



The larger double-spindles measure 0.14 X 0.05; 0.13 X 0.06; 0.12 X 0.06; 

 slender double-spindles, 0.13 X 0.04; 0.13 X 0.03; stouter ones, 0.14 X 0.04; 

 0.12 X 0.06; 0.12 X 0.05; 0.10 X 0.05; 0.09 X 0.05; 0.10 X 0.06; scaphoids, 

 0.11 X 0.05; 0.10 X 0.04; 0.09 X 0.05; 0.09 X 0.04; 0.09 X 0.03; crosses, 0.09 X 

 0.07. 



Bahia, Brazil, M.-Edwards. 



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Phyllogorgia foliata (Val. Mss.). 



Valenciennes, op. cit., t, XLI, p. 15 (no description). M.-Edw., Corall., I, p. 181 (no defcri ptlon ) . 



Plate XXXIII, figure 5 (spicules of the type). 



So far as known to me, no figures nor descriptions of this nominal species 

 have been published. 



It is said to have been from Guadeloupe, but no modern collector, so far as 

 I know, has found it in the Antilles. As it is closely related to the two preced- 

 ing species, and perhaps identical with P. dilatata, it is quite probable that it 

 also came from Brazil. 



The spicules from the type in the Paris Museum (slide 40, Koll.), are very 

 much like those of P. dilatata. The most numerous are rather slender double- 

 spindles with about three whorls of very prominent loosely placed warts on each 

 end; with these there are some stouter spindles, more closely warted. The 

 scaphoids are mostly smaller, very convex, mostly with a few small humps on 

 the convex side; and often with a row of two or three lateral ones; the concave 

 side has two or three pairs of very prominent warts. 



The double-spindles and spindles measure 0.15 X 0.06; 0.13 X 0.07; 0.12 X 

 0.04; 0.11 X 0.05; 0.11 X 0.04; 0.10 X 0.05; scaphoids, 0.11 X 0.05; 0.10 X 0.04; 

 0.09 X 0.03 mm. 



Guadeloupe, M.-Edwards. Locality doubtful. 



Leptogorgia rathbunii Verriil, sp. nov. 



Plate XXIX, figures 4, 4a (branch and spicules of No. 4555, in natural colors). 

 Plate XXXV, figures 9, 9a (calicles of No. 4556. Plate XXXIII, figure 11 

 (spicules of the same). 



This is a very elegant scarlet-red or coral-red species, branching freely pin- 

 nately in one plane, but not anastomosing. The larger specimen is 150 mm. high. 



The branches are slender, irregularly pinnate and bipinnate, not varying 

 much in thickness. All are slender; the terminal branchlets are mostly 10 to 20 



