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to Pourtales’s specimens or figures, I am unable to infer whether he might have confused the spicules 
of some other form; the relative size, form, color, etc., being so closely similar to those under con- 
sideration as to suggest the possibility of such confusion. In case such were true, then his Acis should 
become Leptogorgia; if otherwise, I should propose that the present specimens be christened L. 
solitaria. 
Fig. K. — (1) A colony of Leptogorgia viryulata, one-third natural size. (2) A colony of L. solitaria. (3) Portion of base, with 
single polyps at a. (4 and 5) Spicules of L. solitaria , greatly magnified. 
Leptogorgia, sp. ? 
Only a very small fragment of a single specimen, evidently of this genus, was contained in the 
collection, too small to warrant any definite determination of its specific affinities, though its spicules 
in general form and size would seem to identify it with L. Jloridana or L. hebes. Color, brick red. 
Taken at station 6062, Mayaguez Harbor, January 20, 1899, by means of dredge, from a depth of 25 to 
30 fathoms. Bottom sand, mud, and shells. 
