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stalk cortex are mostly very distinctive, long (up to 3,5 mm.), curved, red spindles, also ovals 
and irregular clubs covered with massive tubercles mainly with very characteristic rough blunt 
heads. There are also very rough discs, approaching spheres, covered with the same massive 
tubercles. A few triradiate forms occur in the lower cortex. There are also a few minute, 
colourless, irregular capstans. 
Deduction : The specimens agree with D. ehrenbergi in having : 
(1) Six pairs of spicules, in most cases, in each point of the anthocodiae; 
(2) supporting bundle of rough spindles slightly projecting ; 
(3) the polyps in little divaricate groups of about 5 — 8 ; 
(4) similar spiculation in the canal-walls; and 
(5) similar mode of branching. 
Localities: Stations 164, 258. 
There are also two other specimens from Station 258, one from Station 164, three from 
Station 315, and two for which no locality is recorded. 
A colony with very distinctive coloration. The general colour in some branches is pink, 
in others reddish. In the smaller branches, but more especially in the supporting bundle, there 
are spicules of a dark red colour, while the anthocodiae are yellow. Under a lens this combi¬ 
nation of colours is very striking. 
Locality: Station 25S. 
A small colony 4 cm. in height. The general colour is chocolate red, but the anthocodiae 
are yellow. 
Locality: Station 258. 
Another small specimen identical in branching and spiculation with those first described. 
The coloration is also the same. 
Locality: Station 164. 
Three large divaricate colonies 25 cm., 18 cm., and 10 cm. in height. They are considerably 
flattened and much branched. The general colour is chocolate red, but the anthocodiae are yellow. 
Locality: Station 315. 
A small colony considerably flattened, identical in coloration and spiculation with the first 
of those here described. It is slightly more rigid than the others, but this is due no doubt in great 
part to shrinkage. 
Another colony more flaccid than the other. The general colour is pale pink with yellow 
anthocodiae. There is a fairly long bare stem from which two branches arise at right angles. 
The main stem then bifurcates. The terminal twigs are not so pointed as in the majority of the 
specimens, but the spiculation is identical. 
Locality: Not recorded. 
Previously recorded from the Red Sea. 
7. Dendronephthya microspiculata (Putter). (Plate XX, Fig. 4). 
For description see: PUTTER, Alcyonaceen des Breslauer Museums, Zool. Jahrb. XIII, Syst. 
1900, pp. 459 —460. 
Stat. 99. 6°7'.5 N., 120°c6 / E. 16 — 23 M. Lithothamnion-bottom. 1 Ex. 
