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3. Echinogorgia pseudosassapo Kolliker. (Plate V, Fig. 4; Plate XXV, Fig. 4). 
According to KUICENTHAL = E. reticulata (Esper). 
For description see : WRIGHT and STUDER, Challenger Reports, Alcyonaria, 1889, p. 119,2 figs. 
NUTTING, Gorgonacea of the Siboga Expedition XIII b, 1910, p. 64. 
KUICENTHAL, Gorgonaria (Das Tierreich, 1924) p. 202. 
Stat. 164. i°42 / .5 S., 130°47'.5 E. 32 M. Sand, small stones and shells. 1 Ex. 
A small colony standing 2.4 cm. high is referable to this species. The erect stem, arising 
from a small basal expansion, has a diameter of 2 mm. near the base, but swells towards the 
tip to a diameter of 2.5 mm. At a height of 11 mm. it gives off a branch 1 cm. in length. 
Both stem and branch are thickly covered with the closely packed calyces. The calyces are 
small and rounded, with an average diameter of 1 cm., and closely covered with the imbricating 
folia of numerous foliaceous clubs which give the surface a roughened appearance. These “Blatt- 
keulen” are the most numerous of the cortical spicules, but there are in addition spindles of 
varying size. The smaller are covered with more or less equal compound warts; the larger are 
covered on one side with small dense warts and on the other with large foliaceous projections. 
Some of these larger spicules are triangular in shape and flattened. All the spicules are red. 
The operculum is weakly developed; each point has a pair of converging fine spindles 
with occasionally a third at the base. The operculum does not project beyond the margin of 
the calyx, which in many cases is contracted so that only a small opening is left. 
The following measurements of the spicules were taken : 
(a) Foliaceous clubs with flattened folia arising from a warty base with a varying number of 
warty projections; 0.25 mm. in length, and 0.13 across the foliar end; 0.17 mm. in length 
and 0.1 mm. across the foliar end. 
(b) Smaller straight or slightly curved spindles; 0.27 X °-°4 mm.; 0.18 X 0.03 mm. 
(c) Heavy spindles with large foliar projections to one side, up to 0.6 mm. in length and o. 18 mm. 
in breadth. 
The colour of the colony is a beautiful blood red, the polyps are cream-coloured, and 
the axis is dark brown. 
•Previously recorded from Torres-Straits, Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, and by Nutting 
from Siboga Stations 80, 273, and 310. 
Genus Bebryce. 
1. Bebryce indicci Thomson. 
For description see: THOMSON, Ceylon Pearl Oyster Report, Alcyonaria, 1905, Appendix, 
p. 175, 1 fig. 
Stat 310. 8° 30'S., H9°7 / .5E. 73 M. Sand with few pieces of dead coral. 1 Ex. 
Kuicenthal (Gorgonaria, Das Tierreich, 1924) refers all but one species of Bebryce 
(including B. indica , B. hicksoni and B. thornsoni ) to a new genus Pseudobebryce, characterized 
by its double discs and double spheres, which he holds to be absent in Bebryce, represented 
by B. mollis , which has calyx-shaped sclerites with rounded marginal processes. We cannot for 
a moment admit the legitimacy of this distinction, for B. mollis has the typical double disc-like 
or capstan-like ccenenchyma spicules as well as the more calyx-like forms. 
