last polyp the distance between the sagittal pair and the distal lateral pair is i.i mm., between 
the sagittal pair and the proximal lateral pair 1.75' mm. and 2.2 mm. between the lateral pairs 
of this polyp and the last but one. — The length of the sagittal tentacles is 1.5 mm., and of 
the lateral ones 1.2 mm. — The obtuse conical oral cone (fig. 5) is 0.45 mm. in height, and 
its longest diameter is 0.275 mm. The mouth is 
irregular and shows an inclination to be elongated 
in a sagittal direction (fig. 6). 
The type of the colony of the two speci¬ 
mens of station 214 is the same as of station 211 ; 
one of them however has a nearly straight un¬ 
branched part, so that the backward curve of the 
branched part is the more accentuated, which at the end is sub-horizontal. — Specimen A is 
without polyps; the unbranched part is 7.6 cm., the branched part is 3.3 cm. I he basal dia¬ 
meter of 255 p. increases to 315 p. on a height of 4 cm. and continues so till the first branches, 
than increases still more till 330 p. in the middle of the branched part, which is followed by 
a regular and swift diminuation towards the broken top, which ends 1 mm. above the last 
branch. The basal dilation is a darkbrown, light-bordered, round, thin disk with a diameter of 
2.5 mm. and with knobs, which are probably caused by the underground (a stone). — The 
branches are as regularly inserted as in the specimen of station 88; there are 7 pairs of 
branches the length of which is in the right row: 3.3; 3.95; 4.85; (2.7); 5.8; 4.35; ( 2 - 2 5) cm - 
and in the left row: 2.8; 3.5; 4.55; 3.35; (1.6); (1); (0.45) cm. The distance in the same 
row is ± 5 mm., and the basal diameter of the branches is in the right row: 245 p.; 240 p. ; 
; 232.5 p. ; 180 p. ; 150 p. ; and in the left row: 240 p. ; 247.5 p. ; 225 p. ; 
172.5 p-; i 4 2 -5 P- 
At the base of the colony there are only scattered spines; some of them are fused 
or together to a sort of longitudinal ridges (fig. 7 a), 
which sometimes extend over a long distance and 
wind round the axis in a very steep spiral. At a 
height of 2.5 cm. begins an absolutely smooth part 
and only quite near the branches, on one of the 
lateral sides of the stem a few low spines appear 
with a distance of ± 375 p. and a length of 30 p.-, 
there are only two or three rows, often incomplete. 
On the branched part the spines are regularly dis¬ 
tributed -, on the left side of the axis they are longer than at the right side; the form of the 
spines is as in fig. 7 c ; the distance in a row is 300 p.; the number of longitudinal rows 
is five without any quincunxial regularity. On the higher parts of the stem the spines are still 
low-, often they disappear totally but at the top-part they are more distinct (fig. 7 b). On the 
branches there are four longitudinal rows, sometimes forming verticils but usually they soon 
disappear, as the distances in a row are very variable : 285—375 p.. The length of the spines 
is 50 p. and 30 u. (fig. 7 c) ; the longest are placed on the convex side of the axis therefore 
240 p. 
210 u. 
2 3 2 -5 
225 px 
Fig. 7. Eubathypath.es patula (Br.) em. a Fused spines at the 
base of the colony: b spines on the top of the colony ; 
c spines on a branch; <7, b , c 52 X- 
