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shore. Other specimens were taken later in the 
same month, July, 1931, at a depth of 45 m. at 
Griffin Bay. 
This species is typically funnel-shaped with 
an elongate stem. The maximum diameter of 
the cone is at the distal end and at that place 
is 20 mm. across. The thickness of the wall is 
only 2 or 3 mm., and at the thinnest the stem 
is also only 2 or 3 mm. in diameter. The total 
length, or height, of the sponge is approxi- 
mately 10 cm., of which 5 or 6 cm. may be 
described as stem, the remainder being the hol- 
low funnel, shaped like an inverted cone. 
The color in life was light drab. The con- 
sistency is spongy, very flexible, tough, and not 
easily torn. 
The surface is moderately smooth to the 
naked eye, especially on the exterior of the 
sponge, where there is an obvious ectosomal 
specialization of very fine meshed reticulation. 
This is frequently cracked, but other than this, 
no oscules are evident. It is probable that the 
efferent openings are the abundant minute ones 
on the interior of the hollow funnel. 
The spicules on the interior are arranged in 
a rather confused manner, but in general with 
the points towards the surface. The adjective 
"plumose” might be applied to the appearance 
in many places. There can be little doubt that 
this is axinellid structure. The megascleres show 
typical axinellid variation in size. Only smooth 
styles have been found; these are 2 X 180^ to 
4 X 3 66/x. 
The genus Stylissa was established by Hall- 
man (1914: 349) to have as genotype the 
sponge described as Stylotella flabelliformis by 
Hentschel (1912: 355). This East Indian spe- 
cies is very much like the Puget Sound one 
here described, except that its spicules are some- 
what larger, and it is cup-shaped without any 
stem. Another similar sponge is that for which 
Gray (1867: 513) established the genus Tra- 
gosia , a species originally described as Spongia 
infundibuliformis by Linne ( 1858: 1348). It is 
very like the one under consideration except 
that it is shorter of stem and is usually broader 
and more cup-shaped. It is tremendously more 
hispid as to the surface, and its spicules include 
oxeas as well as styles. It is typically an Euro- 
pean species. 
PACIFIC SCIENCE, Vol. XV, April 1961 
Syringella amphispicula new species 
Fig. 2 D 
The holotype, USNM no. 22707, was dredged 
July 24, 1931 at a depth of 45 m. in Griffin 
Bay. It is a ramose sponge, with a very few 
anastomoses between the gnarled and misshapen 
branches. The latter are 3 to 10 mm. thick and 
about 6 cm. high, with obtuse, club-shaped 
ends. The color in life was ochre yellow, the 
consistency very tough and flexible. The surface 
is even but undulating, nearly lipostomous. 
There is a dense axial specialization of long- 
itudinally arranged megascleres, among which 
spongin may have been present, but not con- 
spicuous. This axis often has a diameter slightly 
more than half that of the entire branch. In the 
flesh around this axial core the spicules are ar- 
ranged perpendicular to the surface and at right 
angles to the axis. The spicules are exclusively 
tylostyles, many about 18 X 670g, but also 
much smaller. Numerous very small ones (say 
2 X 100/x) may be immature forms, or may 
constitute a separate category, but are connected 
to the larger type by numerous intermediates. 
The different sizes are mixed among each other, 
not localized. 
This new species is unique in the genus 
Syringella for its abundance of the smaller spic- 
ules, that in it nearly make up a second size 
range. Many (but by no means all) of the 
species of this genus have a central hollow to 
the branches. Many have more spongin than 
does amphispicula. 
Cliona celata Grant, 1826 
The sponge thus identified was dredged from 
a depth of about 5 or 10 m. on July 3, 1931, 
south of Turn Island. It was found growing in 
a mass of broken barnacle shells, making sub- 
circular tunnels 0.5-1. 5 mm. in diameter. From 
them minute papilles protrude here and there 
a distance of about 1 mm. in life. The color in 
life was lemon yellow. The consistency is soft 
and the spicules are arranged in a rather con- 
fused fashion within the tunnels. The spicules 
are of one sort only; tylostyles about 10 X 
285/*. 
This sponge was originally described by 
Grant ( 1826: 79) from Europe, but it is a well- 
