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As this series supplements the one previously clescribed, I will now 

 discuss it more in detail. 



The smallest of these specimens is 10 mm. long. It has only 

 the terminal zooid and the terminal polyp, situated on the ventral 

 side, about V2 nim. below the apex of the rachis. This specimen 

 is therefore quite like the previously-mentioned, from 6 — 11 mm. 

 long specimens. 



The next specimen is 15 mm. long. It has the terminal zooid, 

 and about 1 mm. below that the terminal polyp. We also find on 

 the dorsal side, just behind the terminal polyp, two small buds, 

 the first pair of lateral zooids. This specimen thus forms the 

 transition between the specimen with only terminal polyp and zooid, 

 and the 22 mm. long specimen, which also has two well-developed 

 rows of lateral zooids. 



In the third stage the terminal polyp is situated about 2 mm. 

 below the terminal zooid. Three and a half millimetres below this 

 polyp, and quite close to the left lateral row of zooids, we find the 

 first sexual polyp. It is as yet quite small, scarcely half the size 

 of the terminal polyp, but easily recognisable by its well-developed 

 tentacles. Eight millimetres below this polyp there are two large 

 ouds, the 2nd and 3rd sexual polyps. One of these is situated 

 quite at the right side, the other ventrally, beneath the terminal 

 polyp. Besides the terminal zooid, there are only the two lateral 

 rows of zooids, extending down the rachis to the 2nd and 3rd 

 sexual polyps. Ventral zooids were altogether wanting. This spe- 

 cimen is 29 mm. long. Its development is only very slightly behind 

 that of the previously described and figured specimen from Herlo- 

 fjord, 30 mm. in length. 



We now come to the 41 mm. long specimen with 3 fully- 

 developed polyps, a stage which was formerly only represented by 

 a 35 mm. long specimen from the Hardanger Fjord. It is, however, 

 rather more developed than this last-mentioned specimen, as it has 

 both the 3rd and 4th sexual polyps, though rudimentary, while the 

 Hardanger Fjord specimen had only a rudimentary 3rd sexual 

 polyp. The terminal polyp is situated 3 mm. below the terminal 

 zooid. To the left and 2 mm. below this polyp, is situated the Ist 

 sexual polyp; the 2nd is 5 mm. below and a little to the right of 

 the terminal polyp. Nine millimetres below. and to the left of this, 

 a large bud is visible, on which the tentacles are in the act of 

 emerging. Between this bud and the 2nd sexual polyp, we find, 



