a distinction between axial and secondary polyps. The main curved portion, 2.1 cm. in length, 
with a diameter of 0.7 mm., gives off a branch, 1.4 cm. in length. 
The fragment has a relatively thick wall of interlocked spicules, and with a hint of 
internal longitudinal partitions. The outer wall consists of substantial spindles more or less closely 
dovetailed. They are densely rough with interlocking warts, often compound, and may remain 
coherent after boiling with caustic potash. In the interior there are more delicate smaller rodlets, 
nearer the Telestid type, which also remain coherent after boiling. Some of these are bluntly 
forked at the ends, and have longish irregular roughnesses. 
The verrucae are but slightly salient; one that we opened showed the retracted tentacles 
with spicules. 
The general colour is whitish, but here and there, especially at the bases of the verrucae, 
there are patches of rosy spindles, mostly of the smaller type. 
The specimen seems to us to be at any rate near Pseudoclcidochoims hicksoni Versluys, 
a specimen of which was obtained from the same Station. Curiously enough a specimen of the 
very different, though somewhat convergent, Telesto rubra Hickson was also collected at this Station. 
Fragments near Anthothela. 
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Stat. 284. 8°43 / .i S., I27°i 6'.7E. 828 M. Grey mud. 1 Ex. Fragments. 
Several tantalising fragments of a young Scleraxonian colony of a grayish-brown colour, 
over-crusted with debris. The longest piece is 1.7 cm. in length. There are traces of an 
encrusting habit. 
The salient features are the following: 
(1) the whole surface is provided with massive very warty spindles, sometimes interlocking. 
These sometimes become pseudo-clubs, or almost oblong. There are a few triradiates and 
irregular forms. In the axis the spicules are mainly warty spindles, but many of them are 
delicate and slender; 
(2) the relatively thin rind is readily separable from the medulla and the latter shows nutritive 
canals; 
(3) the long tentacles, infolded at the mouth, are very heavily armoured with large longitudinally 
disposed spindles; 
(4) the long polyps seem to show a low calyx and an apparently non-retractile body. This shows 
somewhat irregular longitudinal rows of spindles, ending in eight massive points below the 
bases of the tentacles. But only two polyps were clearly visible. 
The specimen seems to us near Anthothela, but does not belong to either of the des¬ 
cribed species. 
Appendix to Sympodium. (Plate III, Fig. 7). 
A very interesting young colony spreading on a little stone, with about 8 polyps on a 
ribbon-like stolon (0.5 mm. across), bears a striking but superficial resemblance to Sarcodictyon 
catenata Forbes, to which, however, it cannot be referred. For the spicules consist largely 
of spindles, narrow and tuberculate, along with a felted mass of irregular knobbed forms, some 
