[a) A beautiful large red colony, with white verrucae and white tips to the branches. The 
anthocodiae are all retracted. 
Anthocodial armature. 
Crown — 4—5 rows of spicules. 
Points — 1 pair of principal spicules with sometimes a smaller one between. 
Spicules (1) Short and stout spindles of main stem, pink in colour with very large jagged warts 
(0.6 X 0.2 mm.). 
(2) Large, colourless, pointed spindles of branches, with medium warts, 1.3 X 0.25 mm. 
(3) Small slender, colourless spindles of verrucae, with pointed simple warts, 0.7 X 0.04 mm. 
(< 5 ) Broken pieces of a colony red in colour, fading to light brown at the ends of the 
branches and on verrucae. Many of the anthocodiae are entirely unretracted, others just appear 
through the open end of the verrucae. 
Anthocodial armature. 
Crown — 3—4 rows of spicules. 
Points —- One pair of spicules in each, forming a triangle with the first row of the crown. 
Spicules. Same as in former specimen 
(c) A beautiful specimen with ground colour yellowish pink, and anthocodiae yellow. The 
anthocodiae are nearly all unretracted. 
Anthocodial armature. r 
Crown — 4 rows of spicules. 
Points — 2 or 3 spicules in each. When 3 are present, 2 are on one side and 1 on the other. 
Spicules (1) Massive spindles, 1.7 X 0.4 mm., thickly beset with compound tubercles; 
(2) Spindles of the same type which taper very markedly at each end; 
(3) Internal delicate spindles, straight and curved, with small distant spines, 0.35 X 0.03 mm.; 
(4) Hockey-stick types, 0.44 X 0.05 mm.; 
(5) Warty ovoid forms, 0.4 X 0.2 mm. 
( d ) Small pieces of a colony, brown in colour with white anthocodiae, nearly all retracted. 
Anthocodial armature. 
Crown •— 3 rows of spicules. 
Points — i pair of spicules, converging at the apex, and very divergent at the base. 
Spicules — (1) Large spicules of coenenchyma, thickly beset with rough warts, 2.1 X 0.36 mm. 
0.8 X o. 1 2 mm. 
(2) Slenderer forms with widely separated pointed spines, 0.45 X 0.43 mm. 
( e ) P'rom Station 305 there are numerous broken terminal twigs, evidently all from one 
large colony, which agree very closely with those described above (a). 
(f) Another colony from Station 162 is identical with {a). 
Previously recorded from N.W. Australia, Ternate, the Red Sea, Providence and the Maldives. 
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15. Siphonogorgia obspiculata Chalmers. (Plate IV, Fig. 5; Plate XXV, Fig. 1). 
See: CHALMERS, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Vol. XXI, Part 4, p. 164. 
Stat. 260. 5°36 / .5S., I32°55'.2E. 90 M. Sand, coral and shells. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 289. 9 0 o'.3 S., 126°24k5 E. 112 M. Mud, sand and shells. 3 Ex. 
