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Plate VI. 



Figure 7. Acanthogorgia coccixea Verrill ; a polyp 

 much enlarged, showing spiniform spicula at the base and 

 small spicula below the tentacles ; la, view of a polyp 

 from above. 



Figure 8. Nephthya thyrsoidea Verrill ; a cluster of 

 polyps from a branch, slightly magnified ; 8a, a polyp par- 

 tially contracted, much enlarged to show the spicula; 86, 

 one of the spicula greatly magnified. 



Figure 9. Axthelia lineata Stimpson; cluster of 

 polyps natural size ; 9a, a polyp enlarged ; 9b, a tentacle 

 magnified. 



Figure 10. Telesto ramiculosa Verrill; a group of 

 polyps in contraction, natural size ; 10«, an expanded polyp 

 much enlarged ; 106, a contracted polyp somewhat mag- 

 nified. 



Note. Part I of this paper, including a Synopsis of the Classifica- 

 tion of Polyps, herein adopted, was published under a somewhat dif- 

 ferent title in the fifth number of these Proceedings, page 145. Part 

 III, embracing descriptions of the Actinaria, will appear as soon as 

 the necessary plates can be completed. 



