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First I was inclined to put this specimen by Eubathy pat lies lyra Brook, but on the 
following grounds this was difficult to do: by Eub. lyra the two first branches are inserted 
on the same level, which fact is explicitly mentioned by Brook by all (2) found specimens (“a 
feature, which otherwise might have been considered accidental”); the short branches are not 
more than a large sort of spines, many times shorter than the large branches; the short 
branches are not inserted in two rows but irregularly; they are at right angles with the stem ; 
the distance between the pairs of tentacles is 3 mm.; there are 4 or 5 longitudinal rows of 
spines with irregular spiral arrangement. These differences are too many and too great than 
that it would not be advisable to form a new species for the time being, which species, as I add 
explicitly, is very nearly related to Eubathypathes lyra Brook and which possibly by means of 
transitive forms eventually to be found may be joined to it. 
Perhaps Eubathypathes quadribrachiata sp. n., Eubathypathes lyra Br. and Eubathypathes (?) 
heterorhodzos (F. Cooper) n. n. may be considered as transitions of this genus towards 
Par an tip a thes. 
Diagnosis : 
Colony : Stem with increasing diameter and curved. Very regularly 
branched (see fig. 10). Two rows of large branches nearly in one plane, 
and two rows of smaller branches, the planes of which are at an acute anode. 
max. 30 [x. — 
Spines : 
triangular. 
0 
, smooth; 
distance 
1 50—300 g; 
1 e n g t 
: 10 n g i 
t u d i n a 1 rows, with occasional 
quincunx. 
Polyps : 
Distance 
between 
the pairs 
of tentacles 
6 7 5 
and s 
hort (225- 
-300 (X). 
P 5 
tenta cles 
Antipathes (Pall.) emend. 
I st Subgenus Euantipathes n. n. 
v > "’V\--v£rv/J 
1. Euantipathes abies (Gray) n. n. 
\Antipathes\ abies ((Linn.) Gray. BROOK, Antipatharia, Chalk Reports, 1889, p. 170, PI. XI, 
fig. 21. ’) — Thomson & Simpson, On the Antipatharia. — Cooper, Antipatharia (Percy 
SI. Tr. Exp.), p. 313, fig. 9. 
Var. panicidata Esper. BROOK, Antipatharia, Chalk Reports, p. 171 — COOPER, Antipatharia 
(Percy SI. Tr. Exp.), p. 313, fig. 9 a. 
Stat. 71. Makassar. 32 M. Sand with mud. 1 spec. 
Stat. 305. Solor Strait. 113M. Stony bottom. 1 spec. 
Stat. 310. 8° 30'S., ii9°7 / .5E. Sapeh Strait. 73 M. Sand with dead coral. 1 spec. 
The height of the colony of station 310 is 14 cm.; its base is complete. The unbranched 
part of the stem is 6.5 cm. long; first it is straight, then curved and in the end straight again. 
At the beginning of the curved part a remnant of a branch is inserted, which, as it is a pro¬ 
longation of the straight part of the base, can be taken as the principal axis. In this case the 
colony is a large branch, which in the following description we will persist in calling: stem. 
1) For list of synonyms, see Brook, p. 170. 
