All the other characters agree, as well those described here, with the type of polyp of var. 
asperisfm i. The cross-grooves and the longitudinal groove are clearly visible. The interpolypar 
distance is 0.8 1.75 mm., usually 1.5 mm. The sagittal tentacles are 0.4—1.4 mm. long, 
the lateral ones 0.25—0.8 mm. However there are also polyps the tentacles of which are 
much longer than on the rest of the colony, perhaps through the influence of preservation. 
The type of fig. 130 is also found as well as the type of fig. 137 with thinner coenenchyma 
and long thin tentacles. Young polyps may alternate rather regularly with the adult ones, 
but, as usual, they are especially to be found on the toppart of the colony. 
The second group of the same station consists of 6 specimens, one of which is a spiral, 
while three of them are partly spiral and the other two are only irregularly curved and sinuous. 
There are 5 or 6 longitudinal rows, sometimes 4; the mutual distance of the spines is 300 to 
45 ° the long spines are 60 to 210 y, the short spines 30 to 150/7.; the spines of 3 specimens 
are the same as the general type in the first group (fig. 164 a ), but the other ones have the 
triangular spines which are also to be found in the first group (fig. 164 6 ). 
On one of the colonies part of the stem is provided with spines the top of which 
is granulated (fig. 173 a). Abnormal spines also occur, i. a. 
branched ones; more than one apex on the same spine is a 
very widely distributed phenomenon with the young spines 
on the top of the colony. The polyps are built on various 
colonies as in fig. 174 b, where the heavily built tentacles, with 
a constricted base, diverge very widely so that the oral cone 
is clearly visible, hollow above. Sometimes 
the tentacles are rather transparent; the 
lateral tentacles may lie against each other 
and the oral cone (fig. 174 a). Although 
this type of polyp is not immediately to 
be included into the range of the variability 
of the general type of polyps, as they are 
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Fig. 173. Stichopathes variabilis n. n. Spines : 
a on the base of a colony; b on the thickest 
part; c on a higher part; d abnormal spines; 
e on the top of the colony; 
fl, b , d , <? 52 X- 
Fig. 174. Stichopathes varia¬ 
bilis n. n. Polyps: a on the 
base of a colony; b on its 
middlepart; b 14 X- 
given in the discussion of var. asperispina , it may yet be considered as 
appertaining to that series of polypforms, as 
on the same colony the here described polyps 
may be found together with the type of fig. 130, which we have 
considered as the general one; also the polyps of fig. 137 may 
be found, with transparent thin coenenchyma. — The interpolypar 
distance is 0.75—1.5 mm.; the sagittal tentacles are 0.3—0.85 mm. 
long, the lateral ones 0.2—0.6 mm. 
Stat. 47. Bay of Bima. 55 M. Mud with patches of fine coral 
sand. 1 spec. 
x' 
ex' 
Fig. 175. Stichopathes variabilis n. n. 
Spines: a on the base of a colony; 
4 r, d on higher parts; 
«, b , r, d 52 X- 
The type of spines (fig. 175) of this colony, which is wound 
in a sinistrorsal spiral, made me put it with this var., although there are no polyps. The stem 
