B72 A. E Verrill on New Corals. 
together, seldom more than their own diameter apart, and often 
in contact; in contraction they rise but little above the basal 
membrane in the form of low, flattened warts, with a depression 
at summit from which radiate 12 to 15 sulcations. Internal 
lamellae 12. Integument firm, filled throughout with small, 
glistening, white spicula, probably derived from the sponge. 
Diameter of contracted polyps 08 to 10; height 02 or 03; 
breadth of basal membrane about ‘10 of an inch. 
Sherbro Island, West Africa,—Prof. A. Hurd. 
ALCYONARIA. 
Telesto Africana, sp. nov. Figure 3. 
various forms (fig. 8, a), which are 
closely interlaced, as in the other 
species of the genus. Other forms 
of long, very slender, more distantly 
spinulose, often bent spicula are aise 
abundant (fig. 3, b 
’ 
036, 408 by 048, 366 by 048. 
Sherbro I., on the base of Muricea 
granulosa,—Prof. A. Hurd. 
This species is closely allied to T. 
b a fruticulosa Dana, of the Carolina 
coasts, and, like that species, 15 ¢ 
crusted by a parasitic sponge. But it is a more slender specie 
and the itecla are longer and more attenuated. : 
T. Riisei V., of St. Thomas (Clavularia Riise’ D. and M.), 
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