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COilLENTEilATA. 
Cereopsis*fg. n. (Kent, ibid. p. 398). Corallum clavate, base slightly ex- 
- panded; stem barren below, slightly lobate above, and bearing scattered 
cylindrical polyp-cells j polypes semiretractile. C. bocagii, near Setubal, 
Portugal. 
Anthozoanthus parasiticus, Deshayes : described by Carter, Ann. N. H. (4) 
V, p. 449. 
Eimephthya thyrsoides, y&vnW.,=jNephthya thyrsoides, Verrill (Proc. Ess. 
Inst. vol. vi. p. 81); Spo7iyodes capitata, Yerri\\, = Spoyy odes capitaia, Gray 
(ib. p. 81); Sponyodes yracilis, YgtyiW, = Spoyyodia yracilis, Gray (ib. p. 81). 
Verrill here contends that the orthography should be “ Spongodes,” not 
“Spoggodes” or Spoggodia,” as Dr. Gray has it. Telesto ramicidosa,Yex~ 
xi\],=iTelesco ramtdosa, Gray (ib. p. 82) : Telesio ? nodosa, Verrill, = 
nodosa. Gray (ib. p. 82) ; according to Verrill, this may not belong to 
Alcyonaria at all, having no spicules, but may possibly consist of the tubes 
of some annelid or crustacean (ib. p. 82). 
Telesio africana, sp. n., Verrill (Am. J. Sc. vol. xlix. 1870, p. 372), Sherbro 
Island, West Africa. T. coi'allina, sp. n., Duchassaing (/. c. p. 19), Guade- 
loupe. 
Antheha latebrosa, sp. n., Duchassaing (1. c. p. 11), Guadeloupe. 
Nephthya rubescens, sp. n., Duchassaing (/. c. p. 12), Guadeloupe. 
Pht'oniis, g. n., Duchassaing (/. c. ,p. 12). Type P. subtnei'sus, sp. n., Marie- 
Galanto. 
Iciliyoi'yia, g. n., Duchassaing (1. c. p. 12). Type I. achi'ammi, sp. n., Guade- 
loupe* 
Pennatulidce. 
KoLliker describes (Abh*. senck. Ges. vii. p. 487) the following new 
species : — 
Viryularia lyimymanii (1. c. p. 636, figs. 133, 134), Fayal, Azores ; V. steen- 
situpi (p* 639, figs. 128, 129), Varangertiord, in Finmark ; V. loveni (p. 641, 
figs. 121, 122), Port Jackson ; V. I'umphii (p. 542, figs. 123, 124), Amboyna; 
Stylatula lacazii (p. 662, figs. 132, 136), loc. unknown; S. kinberyi (p. 563, 
figs. 140, 141), loc. unknown; S. darwini (p. h^l') — Viryularia patachonica, 
Gray, Patagonia ; S. antillarum (p. 568), Antilles ; Scytalium meriensi 
(p. 576, figs. 125, 126), Chinese Seas. 
Acanthoptilon, g. n., K611. (ib. p. 569), not noticed in his conspectus of 
genera. Eong, slender ; sarcosome thin ; pinnules small, triangular, supported 
below by plates of calcareous spicules; polype-cells armed with spicules, 
polypes without calcareous bodies. At the lower end of the colony a loose 
row of leaflets becoming smaller till they run out in a lateral row of zooids ; 
zooidfl ventral; shaft without radial canals; sexual organs in the more deve- 
loped pinnules. Axis roundish, angular, with very short radial fibres. A. 
pourtalesi, nov., K611. (^6. p. 571, figs. 168, 159), Marquesas, &c. ; A. 
ayassizi (p. 672, figs. 156, 157), Carysfort Reef. 
Gorgoniidee. 
Dr. Gray (Cat. Stony Corals) establishes the following new genera and 
species 
Coreopsis, Lath., Aves, 1790; Dupont, Coleoptera, 1834. — R. II. T. 
