no. 1624. DESCRIPTIONS OF HAWAIIAN ALCYONARIA—NUTTING. 591 
The type was secured by the Szboga expedition in the Celebes Sea 
at a depth of 1,901 meters. 
CHRYSOGORGIA SPICULOSA (Verrill). 
Dasygorgia spiculosa VERRILL, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., XI, No. 1, 1888, p. 23. 
A single specimen, collected off Bird Island, at Station 4151, 
313-800 fathoms (Cat. No. 25356, U.S.N.M.), agrees better with the 
description in the Challenger report (p. 91) than it does with Verrill’s 
original description. 
The material studied by Verrill was secured at five West Indian 
stations, from depths varying from 334 to 573 fathoms. The Chal- 
lenger secured this species off Pernambuco, from a depth of 350 
fathoms. 
‘Group B, SQUAMOSZ ABERRANTES,” Versluys. 
Polyps with very thin squamous spicules only in the body. Ten- 
tacular spicules very thick and irregular scales, sometimes terete 
spicules. 
CHRYSOGORGIA CURVATA Versluys. 
Plates Xan; fig. 9: 
Chrysogorgia curvata VreRSLUYS, Die Gorgoniden der Siboga-EXxpedition, I, 
Die Chrysogorgiide, 1902, p. 67. 
An incomplete colony from near Bird Island, Station 4153, 962- 
1,059 fathoms (Cat. No. 25371, U.S.N.M.), shows the characteristics 
of this species very well, although it differs from the type in having 
longer internodes, and the tentacular spicules do not show such jagged 
ends as are figured by Versluys. It is doubtless the same species, 
however. 
Distribution.—The type was secured by the Siboga expedition be- 
tween Halmahera and Gebe, from a depth of 1,089 meters. 
CHRYSOGORGIA FLAVESCENS, new species. 
Plate L, fig. 5. 
The fragments of a large colony indicate an original height of 
about 16 inches (40 cm.). Stem smooth, straight, and unbranched 
for about 250 mm., distinctly geniculate at branch origins. Branch 
origins one-third, left-handed, rather distant for this genus, being 
about 12 mm. apart. Branches dividing four or five times. Polyps, 
one to each internode of branches, rather distant, about 24 mm. high, 
with bulging basal and constricted middle portions, projecting at 
nearly a right angle from the branches. 
Zooids are present on the branches. 
Spicules squamiform, with lobulated edges, transverse on body 
wall and on the outer surfaces of the tentacles, forming an imbri- 
