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cating armor. ‘This imbrication is formed by the lobulated upper 
edges of the scales overlapping the smoother edges of those just 
above. The spicules of the cortex are larger lobulated scales, longi- 
tudinally disposed. Occasional cruciform scales are seen. 
Color.—Bufly yellow, with a bright golden iridescence where the 
cortex 1s removed from the axis. 
Type.—Cat. No. 25379, U.S.N.M., Albatross Station 4125, between 
Oahu and Kauai, 963 fathoms. 
Additional locality——South of Lanai: Station 3879, 923-1,081 
fathoms. ° 
The specimens from Station 3879 are mere fragments, and have 
larger terminal polyps than the type. The single specimen which 
forms the type is so fragmentary that I do not feel justified in dis- 
secting the stem to find whether it is monopodial or not. From its 
mode of growth, and long, smooth, straight basal part of the stem, I 
suspect that it may belong to the next genus, M/etallogorgia. 
CHRYSOGORGIA GENICULATA (Wright and Studer.) 
Plate kl, fig. 4. 
Dasygorgia geniculata Wright and Struprer, Report on the Aleyonaria 
collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876, 1889, p. 17. 
This species shows the highly modified polyps referred to on page 
589 that seem to be the result of the presence of parasitic crustacea 
in the polyp cavities. 
Some of these polyps are 7 mm. long, while the normal polyps are 
but a little less than 2 mm. long. 
The station number of this specimen is lost. (Cat. No. 25360, 
U.S.N.M.) The types were taken by the Challenger off the Philip- 
pines from a depth of 80 to 102 fathoms, and off the Japanese coast. 
The species was also secured by the Siboga expedition, off Kei Island 
from a depth of 148 to 621 meters. 
CHRYSOGORGIA STELLATA, new species. 
Plate XLVI, fig. 3; plate L, fig. 3. 
Colony profusely branched, flabellate in general form, 150 mm. 
high by 125 mm. in spread. Root, a round, flat white calcareous plate. 
Main stem stout, beginning to branch 6 mm. from the root; first 
three branches tending to form a spiral 54 mm. apart; then a large, 
much divided branch is given off; then a smaller branch; and then 
the stem divides into a bushy tuft of large branches, each being erect 
and much divided, there being from seven to ten divisions of each. 
Polyps usually two to each node on distal parts, and one to each 
node on proximal parts of branches, inclined toward distal parts of 
