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A fragmentary specimen from Station 260 is superficially different from the ordinary 
type in having the closely dovetailed external spindles of the coenenchyma much smaller, a 
common length being 0.4 mm., (whereas some of the Challenger specimens had spicules 2.4 mm. 
in length), and in having more prominent and irregular warts. It is to be noted, however, that 
this occurred along with a typical specimen of K. koreni. Still more striking is its occurrence 
along with Telesto rubra. 
From Station 154 came two fragments, one (A), a typical piece of Keroeides koreni , 
the other, (B), obscured by a sponge growth, with the external spicules smaller and more varied 
in form. In fact they differ as did the specimens from Station 117 and Station 260. We have 
seen considerable variation in side and shape in one colony of Keroeides koreni. The longest 
heavily warted spindles from the two specimens from Station 154 had the following dimensions: 
Specimen A: A maximum length of 1.05 mm. and breadth of 0.17mm. 
Specimen B: A maximum length of 0.5 mm. and breadth of 0.12 mm. 
Previously recorded from Coast of Japan, Laccadive Islands. 
Family Melitodidae. 
Genus Melitodes. 
1. Melitodes esperi Wright and Studer. 
For description see: Wright and Studer, Chall. Report Alcyonaria, XXXI, 1889, p. 179, 1 fig. 
Stat. 164. i°42 / .5 S., i30°47 / .5 E. 32 M. Sand, small stones and shells. 2 Ex. 
Stat. 257. Du-roa-Strait, Kei-islands. Up to 52 M. Coral. 1 Ex. 
Portions of a red colony with yellow polyps. The branching is reticulate in one plane, 
with a slight flattening of twigs. The polyps leave one surface almost quite free. There are 
numerous rough-headed pseudo-clubs, that is to say derivable from the spindle type. There are 
no clubs with “broad leaf-like processes”, reported for this species by Stuart Thomson, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. London, 1911, p. 875. 
Previously recorded from Torres Straits, Malay Archipelago, South Africa (?) and by 
Nutting from Siboga Stations 33, 50, 60, 80, 144, 164, 257, 273 and 315. 
2. Melitodes ochracea (L.). 
For description see: KUKENTHAL, Alcyonarien Aru- und Kei-Inseln, Abhandl. Senckenberg. 
Ges., XXXIII, 1911, p. 334, 8 figs. 
Stat. 282. 8°25'.2S., I27 °i 8 / .4E. 27—54 M. Sand, coral and Lithothamnion. 1 Ex. 
Fragments of a colony with red calyces and axis, and yellow coenenchyma, agree thoroughly 
with the descriptions previously given. The spicules include warty spindles straight and bent, 
short big-headed warty pseudo-clubs, and smooth rodlets from the nodes. 
Previously recorded from the Indian Ocean; and by Nutting from Stations 71, 85, 
and 234. 
