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brownish black and shows through the transparent polyp walls. 
The siphonozooids are few and scattered. 
The four-sided axis extends from about the midregion of the 
stalk to the tip of the rachis. It is slender, pointed, and reflexed 
below and increases in size to a point near the upper end from 
which it tapers slightly to the bluntly pointed tip, showing two 
deep longitudinal furrows which do not meet over the upper end. 
There are no polyp spicules. Those of the rind of the rachis 
are rather large capstans and stars with much-branched ends. 
They average 0.11 millimeter in length and are scattered, being 
thickest in the region around the base of the polyp, form- 
ing, in the upper region of the rachis, fairly distinct verruca- 
like structures. 
The stalk rind contains scattered, unbranched, sculptured 
clubs, plates, and capstans. The colony, aside from the polyps, 
is yellow in formalin. 
Measurements of a specimen of Lituaria molle sp. nov. 
This species, while based on a single specimen, seems distinct 
enough to stand without confusion. It differs from the other 
three Philippine species, among other things, in having spicules 
in the stalk rind; from L. australasise in having a grooved 
axis; from L. phalloides in having no outgrowths from the 
axis ; from L. habereri and L- hicksoni in having a rachis longer 
than the stalk and in details of spiculation and in color. 
Lituaria breve sp. nov. 
Type. — No. 2458 8 9 in the zoological collection, College of Liberal 
Arts, University of the Philippines; collected from Port Galera 
Bay, Mindoro, by S. F. Light. 
The rachis is about twice as long as the slender stalk. The 
colony is slightly curved and tapers from about the middle of 
the rachis to the two ends. The autozooids are few, large, and 
irregularly scattered. In contraction they lie in outwardly and 
8 This species, like the others described in this paper, was described some 
time ago. Since then, unfortunately, the type specimens have been mis- 
placed. In view of the very distinct characters of the species, however, 
I have considered it permissible to publish the description, in spite of the 
loss, temporary it is to be hoped, of the type specimens. 
mm. 
Length of colony 
Length of rachis 
Length of stalk 
Maximum diameter of rachis 
Maximum diameter of stalk 
130 
70 
60 
10 
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