Spines: blunt, conical, sometimes with sligthly granulated top; different 
length on opposite sides of the axis: 300 y and 45 y. Mutual distance ± 860 y; 
9 regular longitudinal rows. 
Polyps: very transparent; arranged in some longitudinal rows, or irregu¬ 
larly distributed; they leave one side of the stem entirely free; hardly visible 
oral cone with sagittally elongated mouth; proximal tentacles somewhat longer 
than the distal ones; sagittal tentacles 1.4 mm., lateral ones 1.4 mm. or some¬ 
what less. Interpolypar distance 1.5 mm.; tentacles lying against the oral cone, 
and distally inclined. 
4. Eucirripathes contorta v'. Pesch. (PI. VIII, fig. 9). 
Cirripatlies contorta v. P. VAN PESCH, Bijdr. tot de kennis van het genus Cirripathes, p. 17. 
Stat. 240. Banda. From 9 — 45 M. Black sand, coral. 2 spec. 
Both specimens are very much contorted and twisted and wound into a loose ball. The 
length of the largest specimen can be estimated on 1.5 m., and of the smaller specimen on 65 cm. 
But by the convoluted form of the colonies they can easily be put into a bottle of 20 cm. 
height and 16 cm. diameter. The diameter of the smaller colony is nowhere more than 9 cm. 
Only the top of the largest specimen is wound into three coils of a spiral with diameters, 
diminishing from 2.5 to 0.75 cm. The base of this colony bears part of a small basal plate. 
The basal diameter of 2.25 mm. increases rather swiftly to 3.5 mm. With small oscillations this 
diameter diminishes at first slowly, later on more swiftly. The top is slender and snapped off 
at a diameter of 0.5 mm. The entire colony is covered with polyps, except 1.75 dm. of the 
base. The spines (fig. 213) are arranged in longitudinal 
rows, which sometimes are wound in a very steep spiral 
around the axis. Rarely the regular rows are somewhat 
shifted; usually they alternate in a quincunx. There are 
± 10 longitudinal rows on the middle of the smaller colony, 
and 14—15 on the middle of the larger specimen while 
its top has already 14 rows. The length of the spines 
(on the toppart of the larger spec.) is 155 y and 110 y 
on opposite sides of the axis; the smaller spines are to 
be found at the concave side of the curves of the axis. The mutual distance is ± 525 y. The 
smaller spines are somewhat more acute than the longer ones; both their sides are concave, 
while with the longer spines the proximal side is.slightly convex. The surface of the spines is 
granulated, especially on the top and the proximal side of the spines. The base is elongated. 
The polyps (figs. 214, 215) are beautifully preservated on both colonies. They are 
greyish to light yellow brown in colour. The coenenchyma is thick; the polyps are distributed 
round the axis, although usually one side of the axis is almost free. They are not arranged 
in a special number of longitudinal rows, although sometimes a few polyps may form a short 
longitudinal row. The polyps are very prominent and conspicuous; even the ultimate toppart of 
Fig. 213. Eucirripathes contorta v. Pesch. Spines on 
the toppart of the colony 5 58.5 X- 
