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Microciona heterospiculata (Br0ndsted) 
M. heterospiculata Br0ndsted, 1924^, p. 465, 
fig. 20. 
OCCURRENCE: Point Chevalier Reef; Karaka 
Bay; Stanley Bay. Up to half tide encrusting 
rocks. 
DISTRIBUTION: New Zealand. 
Fig. 8. a, Microciona coccinea , sp. nov. b, Micro- 
ciona coccinea, acanthostyle, basally spined style. 
FIG. 9- a, Microciona rubens, sp. nov. b, Micro- 
ciona rubens, spined style, acanthostyles, subtylostyle, 
isochelae (X 350). 
family OPHLITASPONGIIDAE 
(de Laubenfels) 
GENUS My cate (Gray) 
Mycale rara (Dendy) 
Esperella rara Dendy, 1896, p. 18. 
OCCURRENCE: Ahipara Bay. 
REMARKS: The one specimen, yellow and soft 
in life, agrees closely with Dendy’s original speci- 
men, except that trichodragmata appear to be 
absent. Occasional isochelae .017 mm. chord 
occur. 
distribution: Australia. 
