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Bistrilnition : — 



Indian Ocean (Pallas). 



Seas of the Moluccas (Lamarck). 



India and China (Gray). 



Cuba (British Museum Collection of H. Christy). 



Oft' Nortli-West Cape, West Australia, 3-4 fathoms (Studer). 



Torres Straits (Studer). 



Cuba (Eidley). 



Warrior Eeef, Torres Straits, 12 fathoms (Eidley). 



Mergui Archipelago, Burma. 



Andamans (Ind. Mus. Litt. Coll.). 



Elongata Geodp. 



This group is easily differentiated from the others by means of its spicu- 

 lation. The spicules are characteristic and very minute. 



XX. — Scirpearia elongata (figs. 46-48). 



Oorgonia elongata Pallas, xxviii., p. 179. 



Gorgonia elongata Esper, vii., t. Iv. 



Gorgonia elongata Lamarck, xxiv., t. ii., p. 220, 2nd ed., p. 499. 



Gorgonia elongata Dana, iii., p. 664. 



Juncella elongata Valenciennes, xlv., p. 182. 



Juneclla elongata Valenciennes, xlvi., p. 14. 



Gorgonia elongata Ellis and Solander, vi., p. 96. 



Juncella elongata Milne-Edwards and Haime, xx^^., i., p. 187. 



Juncella elongata KoUiker, xxiii., p. 140. 



Ellisella elongata Gray, x., p. 287. 



Ellisella elongata Gray, xi., p. 481. 



Ellisella elongata Gray xii., p. 25. 



Ellisella coccinca Gi'ay, x., p. 287. 



Ellisella coccinca Gray, xi., p. 481. 



Ellisella coccinca Gray, xii., p. 26. 



Nee. Juneella elongata Hickson, xiii., p. 85. 



Nee. Jtmcella elongata Thomson and Henderson, xl., p. SI. 



This is a very old species, but one which has caused more trouble to 

 systematists than any other in the group, owing to the fact that the spicules 

 have hitherto never been investigated. The descriptions, based on a few 

 superficial characters, are so vague that on these alone it is possible to 

 identify almost any branching Gorgonella witli this species. 



