Y22 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxv. 



The spicules are small, short warty spindles and double spindles. 

 They are of small size and exceedingly warty. The spicules in the 

 body walls of the polyps are somewhat longer, more slender spindles, 

 with more delicate points and verrucae. 



The color of the colony is bright coral red. The polyps, in pre- 

 served specimens, are pure white. 



Beautifully expanded colonies of this fine species are in the col- 

 lection at the Hopkins Laborator}", Pacific Grove, California. They 

 were secured in Monterey Bay, but the depth is not indicated. 



Ty'pe-sj)ecimen. — Hopkins Laboratory, Pacific Grove, California. 



Named for Mr. M. H. Spaulding, formerly of Stanford University. 



Family GORGONID^. 



Colony branched, usually flabellate. Axis horny, or horny and 

 calcareous. Polyps completely retractile and bilaterally disposed. 

 Impressions of the canals evident on the surface of the stem and 

 branches, and bilaterally disposed. Cnenenchyma smooth. Spicules 

 small spindles, arranged in one layer. 



Genus LEPTOGORGIA Milne Ed^^^ards, ennended byVerrill. 



Colony flabellate, with often more or less anastomosis of the 

 branches. Calyces verruciform or included, not distributed evenly 

 over the surface, but leaving a broad band on front of stem and 

 branches bare. 



? LEPTOGORGIA FLOR^ Verrill. 



Leptogorgia florae Y^nnii,!,, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts and Sd., I, Pt. 2, 1867 

 to 1871, p. 387. 



•A large dried specimen in the collection of the University of Cah- 

 fornia is referred with some doubt to this species. It is very much 

 larger than the type described by Verrill, which was about 6 inches 

 liigh. The specimen before me is over 2 feet high. In detail, how- 

 ever, it agrees fairly well with the original description. 



The locahty is not stated on the label, which, however, gives the 

 depth at 80 fathoms. 



The type was secured by F. H. Bradley. The species is reported 

 by Verrill as found at Panama and Pearl Islands. 



LEPTOGORGIA PURPUREA (Pallas). 

 Gorgonia jyurjmrta Pallas, Elenchus Zoophytorum, 1767, p. 187. 



Colony flabellate, 12.5 cm. high by 16.2 cm. broad. Stem irregu- 

 larh^^ sinuate, scarcely flattened, 3 mm. broad, giving off opposite 

 branches at intervals of 3 to 13 mm. Some of the branches again 

 divide once or twice. The terminal branclilets are somewhat flat- 



