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series on the top of the colony, but on two thirds of the circumference 
of the axis on the spiralcoils (distal side), not in regular rows; on the 
base of the colony on every side of the axis. Very conspicuous longi¬ 
tudinal groove, especially near the top; numerous cross- grooves between 
the polyps. 
var. polysticha v. P. 
Spines: in 24 longitudinal rows on parts of the colony. 
Former habitat: (? Rumphius, Ambon); Thomson & Simpson. Foul point (Ceylon). 
8. Eucirripathes (?) paucispina (Brook). 
Cirripathes ? paucispina Br. BROOK, Antipatharia, Challenger Reports, p. 86 , pi. XII, fig. 6 ; 
VA.N PESCH, Bijdr. tot de kennis van het genus Cirripathes, p. 39 etc. 
Stat. 95. 5°43'.5 N., H9°4o'E. Sulu-sea. 522 M. Stony bottom. 1 spec. 
Here are found two fragments, which are considered by me as parts of one and the 
same colony, although a middlepart is lacking, since their characters are very like each other. 
The basal part, 45 cm. long, is wound in 1 1 / 4 coil of a regular, very steep, sinistrorsal spiral; 
diameters of the coils is 5 cm., the height of a coil is 26 cm. Basal diameter of the axis: 
2.5 mm., which value diminishes gradually to 1.4 mm. No polyps; spines in 10—11 longitudinal 
rows, alternating in a rather regular quincunx, which may disappear. The rows may be wound 
about the axis in a very steep spiral. Mutual distance of the spines: 45o( — 525) p; the spines 
are only broad-based knobs, leaving one side of the axis entirely 
smooth. — The other fragment, 42 cm. long, has three coils (diameter 
4 cm., height: 15 cm.) of the same type of spiral. Basal diameter of 
the axis 1.2 mm.; broken top: 675 p. — No polyps; spines in 10 
quincunxially alternating rows, with a mutual distance of 450 — 460 p. 
Length: 150 p and 90 p on opposite sides of the axis. The spines are 
blunt with a slanting proximal side and a vertical distal side (fig. 250). 
Their top is rough, knobby, especially on the proximal side, or on 
the entire top. — The axis is shining, gold-coloured, with metallic 
Fig. 250. EucirripathesQ) paucispina , T . 111 r 1 . T 
(Brook; Spines- 58 5 / lustre, in connection with this colour and the shape ol the spines 1 
have thought about a relationship to Cirripathes ? paucispina Br.; 
they differ especially in the number of rows, which is only 3 — 4 with Cirr. ? paucispina Br. 
I he shape of Brook’s colony is not given. — I is only with a certain reservation that I 
have united both specimens. 
Diagnosis: 
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Colony : a regular sinistrorsal very steep spiral with a ratio of 1 : 4 or 5 
between the diameter and the length of the spiralcoils; diameter of the coils 
4—-5 cm.; axis gradually tapering. 
Spines: triangular, blunt; rough top, especially on the proximal side; 
