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eating armor. This imbrication is formed by the lobulated upper 

 edges of the scales overlapping the smoother edges of those just 

 above. The spicules of the cortex are larger lobulated scales, longi- 

 tudinally disposed. Occasional cruciform scales are seen. 



Color. — Buffy yellow, with a bright golden iridescence where the 

 cortex is removed from the axis. 



Tyfe.—Q^i. No. 25379, U.S.N.M., Alhafross Station 4125, between 

 Oahu and Kauai, 963 fathoms. 



Additional locality. — South of Lanai: Station 3879, 923-1,081 

 fathoms. 



The specimens from Station 3879 are mere fragments, and have 

 larger terminal polyps than the type. The single specimen which 

 forms the type is so fragmentary that I do not feel justified in dis- 

 secting the stem to find whether it ismonopodial or not. From its 

 mode of growth, and long, smooth, straight basal part of the' stem, I 

 suspect that it may belong to the next genus, MetaUogorgia. 



CHRYSOGORGIA GENICULATA (Wright and Studer.) 



Plate L, fig. 4. 



Dasygorgia gcniculata Weight aud Studer, Report ou the Alcj'onaria 

 collected by H. M. S. Challenger dnrhig the years 1873-1876, 1889, p. 17. 



This species shows the highly modified polyps referred to on page 

 589 that seem to be the result of the presence of j^arasitic Crustacea 

 in the polyp cavities. 



Some of these polyps are 7 mm. long, while the normal polyps are 

 but a little less than 2 mm. long. 



The station number of this specimen is lost. (Cat. No. 25360, 

 U.S.N.M.) *The types were taken by the Challenger off the Philip- 

 pines from a depth of 80 to 102 fathoms, and off the Japanese coast. 

 The species was also secured by the 8ihoga expedition, off Kei Island 

 from a depth of 148 to 621 meters. 



CHRYSOGORGIA STELLATA, new species. 

 Plate XLVI, fig. 3 ; plate L, fig. 3. 



Colony profusely branched, flabellate in general form, 150 mm. 

 high by 125 mm. in spread. Root, a round, flat white calcareous plate. 

 Main stem stout, beginning to branch 6 mm. from the root; first 

 three branches tending to form a spiral 5 J mm. apart ; then a large, 

 much divided branch is given off; then a smaller branch; and then 

 the stem divides into a bushy tuft of large branches, each being erect 

 and much divided, there being from seven to ten divisions of each. 



Polyps usually two to each node on distal parts, and one to each 

 node on proximal parts of branches, inclined toward distal parts of 



