A. E. Verrill on New Corals, 371 
the septa, those of the three first cycles being described as about 
equal, while in H. geminata those of the third cycle are very 
small. The columella in the latter appears to be much less de- 
d.* 
Desmophyllum simplex, sp. nov. Figure 2. 
Corallum elongated, slender, turbinate above, rapidly 
| ing to the edge of the cup; lower half of column . 
3 smooth and round, upper part, toward the cup, 
} =‘ Somewhat angular with twelve thin, sharp, crest- 
like costze, which become much elevated near the 
enlarg- 
2. 
‘10 of an inch. : 
St. Thomas, West Indies,—Mrs. E. H. Bishop. 
HETEROZOANTHUS, gen. nov. 
Polyps creeping on the surface of sponges, etc., by thin, é 
| stolon-hke accpanitone of the base, from which the polyps arise 
| ‘miinear series. The polyps are short, —_ of contracting 
t 
2 
cup 388; primary septa 14 broad; height above edge of cup 
7 Rearly to a level with e basal membrane. Tentacles few, 12 
24. 
a, ete. : 
Besides the following, this genus appears to aD. a. 
M.) 
Bl ce ie 
Heterozoanthus scandens, sp. nov. 
Polyps small and low, connected by a narrow basal mem- 
ne, which is a little wider than their bases and creeps over 
and is partially imbedded in the surface of a branching spon 
sing to the tips of all the branches, some of which are eight 
_Mches long, and forming i r reticulations over the surface, 
tough at times ascending for two inches or more with a linear 
_ Series of polyps; rarely with double series. The polyps are near 
4g * HE. eupsammides sp.) from China, may be nearer this if distinct from 
the former, to which Sdwards ond Haime refer it 
22g 
