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the axis; mutual distance ± 525 p; arranged in 1 o—15 longitudinal rows, 
wound round the axis in very steep spirals; top and proximal side granulated. 
Polyps : leaving one side of the axis usually free; irregularly arranged 
without longitudinal rows; high cylindrical oral cone with flat upperside 
and sagittally elongated mouth; tentacles lying against the oral cone, 
usually distally inclined; sagittal tentacles 1.75 mm.; lateral ones 1.35 mm. 
Interpoly par distance 3 mm. 
5. Encirripathes spiralis (Blainv.) v. Pesch. 
Palmijuncus anguinus. Rumphius, Herb. Amb. Lib. XII, cap. 3. 
Gorgonia spiralis Linn. LINNAEUS, Syst. nat. ed. X. 
Gorgonia. abies var. spiralis Linn. 
Antipathes spiralis Pall. Pallas, Elenchus Zooph. p. 217; Ellis & Solander, Zooph. p. 99, 
pi. 19, figs. 1 — 6; ESPER, Pflanzenthiere, pt. II, p. 154, Tab. VIII; LAMOUROUX, Polyp, 
flex., p. 373; Exp. method., p. 31, pi. 19, figs. 1—6, non POURTALES, Bull. Mus. Comp. 
Zool., pt. VI, 1880, p. 114, pi. 3, figs. 5, 25, 26. 
Cirrliipathes spiralis Bl. BLAINVlLLE, Manuel d’Act., p. 512, pi. 88, fig. 2; Dana, Zooph., 
p. 376; MlLNE-EDWARDS, Coralliaires, pt. I, p. 313. 
Cirripathes spiralis (Linn.) Blainv. non Pourtales. BROOK, Antipatharia, Chall. Rep. p. 85, 
pi. XII, fig. IO; VAN PESCH, Bijdr.- tot de kennis van het genus Cirripathes, p. 19 etc. 
Cirripathes (?) diversa Br. Brook, Antipatharia, Chall. Rep., p. 87, pi. XII, fig. 12; Forster- 
COOPER, Antipatharia (Gardiner, Fauna etc.), p. 793, pi. LXV, figs. 1, 1 a. 
Stichopathes (?) liitkeni Br. BROOK, Antipatharia, Chall. Rep. p. 94, pi. XII, figs. 28, 28 a. 
Stichopathes contorta T. & S. THOMSON & SlMPSON, Notes on the Antipatharia (Ceylon Fish. 
Rep. etc.), p. 100, fig. 3. 
Stichopathes (?) euoplos Sch. SCHULTZE, Die Antipatharien der deutsch. Tiefsee-Exp. Valdivia, 
Bd. Ill, Lief. II, p. 96, Taf. XIII, fig. 7. 
Stat. 156. o°29 .2 S., I30°5'.3 E. Near Waigeu-island. 469M. Coarse sand and broken shells. 1 spec. 
Stat. 164. l°42.5 S., I30°47'.5 E. Arafura-sea. 32 M. Sand, small stones and shells. 1 spec. 
Stat. 274. 5 0 28 .2 S., 134° 53 -9 E. Near Aru-islands. 57 M. Sand and shells, stones. 1 spec. 
Stat. 305. Solor-strait. 113 M. Stony bottom. 1 spec. 
Stat. 310. 8° 30'S., II9°7’.5E. Flores-sea. 73 M. Sand with pieces of dead coral. 6 spec. 
In view of the rather variable qualities of these specimens and the identification of 
some other species with this Eucirripathes, partly based on this variability, I shall describe the 
specimens separately. 
The flexible specimen of station 274 lacks the natural base; length 
26 cm., curved in a circle, with an indication of a sinistrorsal spiral-coil. 
The basal diameter is 1 mm., which value gradually diminishes towards 
the top which is snapped off at a diameter of 0.3 mm. The colony is 
almost entirely covered with polyps. The spines (fig. 216) are large and 
project very far through the coenenchyma as well as through the polyps. 
They are blunt, cylindrical in shape, with a somewhat broadening base. 
Their length is 530 p and 225 p on opposite sides of the axis; the 
longest ones can be found on the polypbearing side of the axis; mutual distance 675—750 p. 
There are ± 8 longitudinal rows, alternating in a straight quincunx. The top of the spines is 
Fig. 216. Eucirripathes spi¬ 
ralis (Blainv.) v. Pesch. 
Spine; 58.5 X- 
