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Tilic/irinsa and ]i,<j,iiter in colour. This is cspueifilly iioticoable in tlic case of the 

 hirgc pointed sjiicnles survoiunlin-j,' the mouth of the verruca, these bciug deep red 

 in the ty[iical form, pink changing to wliitc at tlie tip in the variety. The ground 

 cidour of the cocnen(di}'ma is white in tlie variety, rc(l or }iink in the typo. 



As to spicules, those of the varii.'t}' are somewhat more delicate than those 

 of the type, and bear longer spines. The chief difference lietvv'cen the variety 

 and the type is that tlie superficial spicules of the coenenchyma in the vari('ty 

 are white spindles, with prominent rough warts, and reaching dimensions of 

 O-GtxO-19 mm., while the corresponding spicules in the type are thick red 

 spindles with short close-set warts, and of larger si/ic, viz., 0-91 x 0-23 mm. 



LocaUty : — Ott'l)warka, 16 fms. 



FAMILY GORGONID.E. 



G. Lophogorgia lutkeni, Wright and Studer. 

 Plate, fig. 11. 



Clialleiujrr li<'j>n,-/, xxxi. ISOg, p. 1.50, PI. XXX. fi-. 1, Ir/, XXXIV. ti-. 1. 

 The colji'ction includes several large and fine sjiecimens of tliis species. The 

 cohmies are more cnjiiduslv hranched than the description in the C/iaUatf/cr Eeport 



Eic. 2. — Gorguiiids {Lojilioijurijin Intlcni and Asl i-nuinricca stcUifera) exposed at low 



water, Kui, near Beyt. 



seems to indicate, and the larg(^st Beyt specimen is about double the height of that 

 olitained !iy the ChalhiKjfi'. The diainetor of the mam stem on the largest specimen 

 is about 1cm., and the height of the colony is 45 cm. Idiere is much variety in 



