3- Melitodes variabilis Hickson. 
For description see: HlCKSON, Fauna Maldives, 1903, p. 809, 1 fig. 
Thomson & Simpson, Alcyonarians Indian Ocean, 1909, p. 169. 
Stat. 105. 6°8 / N., 121 0 19'E. 275 M. Coral bottom. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 164. i°42'.5 S., i30°47 / .5 E. 32 M. Sand, small stones and shells. 2 Ex. 
Unsatisfactory fragments (from Station 164), are probably referable to this variable species. 
They are greyish, with a white axis. The spicules include : warty spindles often much bent, 
warty pseudo-clubs derived from the spindle-type, bent spindles with the warts much stronger on 
the convex side, and a few warty forms approaching the spherical. 
Similar fragments from Station 105 show the same types of spicules, also numerous 
smooth rodlets. 
Previously recorded from Maldives, Andaman Islands; also by Nutting from Siboga 
Stations 60 and 274. 
Genus Mopsella. 
1. Mopsella spinosa Kiikenthal. 
For description see: 
KUKENTHAL, Alcyonarien Aru- und Kei-Inseln, Abh. Senckenberg. Ges., XXXIII, 1911, 
P- 343 > 6 figs. 
-Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Tiefsee-Exp. XIII, 1919, p. 160 — 161. 
Stat. 273. Jedan Island. 2 Ex. 
Two colonies with blood-red axis, not very closely anastomosed, one with canary-yellow 
polyps, and the other yellowish grey. The branches are cylindrical. The nodes are swollen, but 
not so much as in Nutting’s figure of M. spongiosa. The spiculation agrees closely with 
Kukenthal’ s figures, and a notable feature is the occurrence of relatively large foliaceous clubs 
with numerous pointed projecting folia on one side. But there are also numerous smaller folia¬ 
ceous clubs with a smaller number -of more terminal folia. 
Previously recorded from Malay Archipelago and North West Australia. 
Genus Wrightella. 
1. Wrightella coccinea (Ellis and Solander). 
For description see: NUTTING, Gorgonacea of Siboga-Expeditie, XIII b 5 , 1911, p. 51. 
Stat. 117. i°o'.5 N., I22 , °56'E. 80 M. Sand and coral. 1 Ex. 
A fragment of a colony with a pink-red axis, yellow polyps, and yellowish pink coenen- 
chyma agrees well with previous descriptions. Thus the polyps show eight points, each consisting 
of one horizontal spindle and two or three pairs in chevron. The most typical spicules are 
somewhat rounded foliaceous clubs with a tuberculate basal portion and a foliaceous, somewhat 
bud-like, externally projecting prominence. 
Previously recorded by Nutting from the same Station. By others from Mauritius, Sey¬ 
chelles, Cape of Good Hope. 
