POLYPS AND CORALS. 193 



Spongodes capitata Verrill, Bulletin of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, p. 40. Jan., 1864. 



Trunk short and thick, dividing rapidly in a dichotomous 

 manner, forming a broad rounded clump. Branchlets much 

 subdivided, corymbose, the polyps all terminal, small, ver- 

 ruciform in contraction, in rounded clusters of forty or fifty; 

 with these are often intermingled little groups of three or 

 four individuals supported by slender, white spines, one of 

 which is longer than the rest, and considerably exsert, sup- 

 porting one of the cells on its side. The tentacles and 

 polyp walls are also strengthened by slender white spicula. 



Height of a large specimen 4 inches, breadth 5, diame- 

 ter of polyps about .05.. 



Hong Kong, China. Dr. Wm, Stimpson. 



Spongodes gracilis Verrill, nov. sp. 



Trunk slender, arborescently branched, the branchlets lax, 

 a little elongated, furcate, the polyps mostly arising singly 

 along their sides in asecund manner, not crowded, scarcely 

 clustered, small but quite prominent, supported by several 

 slender spines, the walls and tentacles strengthened by 

 numerous very slender fusiform spicula of a bright red col- 

 or. The trunk and branches are open, membranous, dia- 

 phanous, filled with long, slender, curved, fusiform spicula 

 of a white color. 



General color light pink. Height 2 inches; diameter 

 of trunk .25 ; of polyps .02. 



Loo Choo Islands. Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



Family, Cornularid^e. 



Anthelia lineata Stimpson, I.e. p. 375. 



Plate 6, figures 9, 9a, 9b. 



Polyps elongated, tapering somewhat towards the disk. 

 Tentacles nearly half as long as the body, slender, tapering, 

 with a single series of oblong, somewhat irregular papilla?, 

 those near the base of the tentacles shorter and nearly ob- 

 solete. Body pale brownish with eight, longitudinal, lead- 

 colored stripes, tentacles bright blue. Length of body 

 about an inch. 



