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and eventually bear the rounded or bluntly conical lobes. The height of the colony is about 
6.7 cm. and the greatest breadth 0.67 cm. The texture is firm but fleshy, with a suggestion of 
sliminess. The crowded zooids have a maximum diameter of 0.6 mm. 
The spicules are very uniform. They are mostly very simple spindles with low conical 
prominences, and typically tapering ends. The following measurements were taken: — 0.28 X 
0.04 mm.-, 0.2 X 0.03 mm. The spindles vary greatly in the number of their prominences, and 
some are almost smooth. There are no compound warts. But there are also very narrow and 
short spindles, approaching rodlets. 
Extrinsic inclusions of a sandy nature are frequent. 
Genus Daniela. 
Daniela koreni Koch. 
For description see: KOCH, Alcyonacea des Golfes von Neapel. Mt. Zool. Station Neapel, 
vol. IX, 1890, p. 669, 4 figs. 
Stat. . Unrecorded. 1 Ex. 
An unfortunately damaged colony without any label appears to us referable to Koch’s 
rather puzzling Daniela koreni. The paucity of material prevents us from making a critical 
investigation, and we retain the type where Koch placed it — among the Alcyonids. 
The colony is almost translucent. A flaccid stem bears over a dozen delicate but large 
non-retractile polyps. The tentacles bear long pinnules, about fifteen on each side, in a single 
row. The total height of the fragment is 4.3 cm. The spicules are all delicate spindles, either 
smooth or with minute asperities. 
The armature of the polyp approaches a crown and points. Below the origin of the ten¬ 
tacles there are a few minute spindles lying transversely; beneath these are four or five pairs 
of small spindles in chevron, and these are succeeded by three or four pairs of stouter spindles. 
At the base there is an indication of a ring of two or three rows. 
Previously recorded from the Gulf of Naples. 
Genus Cereopsis. 
Cereopsis shuleri Koch. 
For description see: Koch, Alcyonacea des Golfes von Neapel, Mt. Zool. Station Neapel, 
vol. IX, 1890, pp. 671. 
Stat. . Unrecorded. 1 Ex. 
Along with what we have called Daniela koreni there was, curiously enough, a fragment 
of another very translucent colony which bears a close resemblance to Koch's Cereopsis studeri, 
included by Kukenthal in the genus Gersemia. 
A short stem, whose cross section is remarkably like Koch’s figure, must have borne 
about nine polyps. The armature is different from that of Daniela, since the bases of the 
tentacles are supported by strongly developed isosceles triangles of spindles in close chevrons, 
about eight pairs. The tentacles are folded down over the mouth and bear small, more or less 
