724 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxv. 



STENOGORGIA KOFOIDI, new species. 



Plate LXXXIX, figs. 5 and 6; Plate XO, fig. 6. 



Colony flabellate, 78 mm. by 78 mm.; 15 mm. from the base the 

 main stem divides into three main branches, a center one ascending 

 and almost unbranched, the two lateral ones at first widely divari- 

 cating, then ascending and giving forth pinnate branches which tend 

 to be opposite, but are quite irregular. Branchlets about 6 mm. 

 apart, where regular, and somewhat flattened. 



The calyces are quite prominent, conical, with broad base, forming 

 an irregular row on each side of front and back of branch, but more 

 numerous in front than behind, their summits 3.5 mm. apart. The 

 calyces are 1.5 nnn. high and 1.5 broad at base. Margins with 8 

 scallops. 



Polyps with the outer sides of the tentacles crowded with spicules. 



The color of the colony, including the polyps, is deep coral red. 

 The axis is dark greenish brown, lightening distally. 



The spicules are almost exclusively small thorn}'- slender spindles, 

 the larger ones often curved. There are a few small double spindles, 

 and part of the larger ones have the verrucse common in the genus 

 Eunicea. 



Type-specimen.— Cat. No., 25432, U.S.N.M>n 



Distribution. — Station 4546; Station 4553, Point Pinos^ligkt-house, 

 S. 67° E. 3.7 miles; 74 fathoms (type-locality); Station 4554, Point 

 Pinos light-house S. 76° E. 3 miles, 60 fathoms. 



This species seems to be a Leptogorgia in general form and arrange- 

 ment of calyces; but the spicules are more like those characteristic 

 of some of the Muricidse. 



Named in honor of Prof. C. A. Kofoid, of the University of California. 



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