NO. 1624. DESCRIPTIONS OF HA WAIIAN ALC YONARIA— NUTTING. 591 



The type was secured by the Sihoga expedition in the Celebes Sea 

 at a depth of 1,901 meters. 



CHRYSOGORGIA SPICULOSA (Verrill). 

 Dasygorgia spiculosa Verrill, Bull. iSIus. Comp. ZooL, XI, No. 1, 1883, p. 23. 



A single specimen, collected off Bird Island, at Station 4151, 

 313-800 fathoms (Cat. No. 25356, U.S.N.M.), agrees better with the 

 description in the Challenger report (p. 91) than it does with Verrill's 

 original description. 



The material studied by Verrill was secured at five West Indian 

 stations, from depths varying from 334 to 573 fathoms. The Chal- 

 lenger secured this species off Pernambuco, from a depth of 350 

 fathoms. 



" Group B, squamosa: ABERR ANTES," Versluys. 



Polyps with very thin squamous spicules only in the body. Ten- 

 tacular spicules very thick and irregular scales, sometimes terete 

 spicules. 



CHRYSOGORGIA CURVATA Versluys. 



Plate XLV, fig. 9. 



Chrysogorgia curvata Versluys, Die Gorgoniden der Slboga-Expedition, I, 

 Die Chrysogorgiidss, 1902, p. 67. 



An incomplete colony from near Bird Island, Station 4153, 962- 

 1,059 fathoms (Cat. No. 25371, U.S.N.M.), shows the characteristics 

 of this species very well, although it differs from the type in having 

 longer internodes, and the tentacular spicules do not show such jagged 

 ends as are figured by Versluys. It is doubtless the same species, 

 however. 



Distribution. — The type was secured by the Sihoga expedition be- 

 tween Halmahera and Gebe, from a depth of 1,089 meters. 



CHRYSOGORGIA FLAVESCENS, new species. 



Plate L, fig. 5. 



The fragments of a large colony indicate an original height of 

 about 16 inches (40 cm.). Stem smooth, straight, and unbranched 

 for about 250 mm., distinctly geniculate at branch origins. Branch 

 origins one-third, left-handed, rather distant for this genus, being 

 about 12 mm. apart. Branches dividing four or five times. Polyps, 

 one to each internode of branches, rather distant, about 2^ mm. high, 

 with bulging basal and constricted middle portions, projecting at 

 nearly a right angle from the branches. 



Zooids are present on the branches. 



Spicules squamiform, with lobulated edges, transverse on body 

 wall and on the outer surfaces of the tentacles, forming an imbri- 



