no. 1624. DESCRIPTIONS OF HAWAIIAN ALCYONARIA—NUTTING. 598 
branches; 4 mm. high, 24 mm. broad across crown of spines. Basal 
part of polyps rather ‘broad the calyces expanding above into eight 
broad conspicuous spines Dortnoced of spicules longitudinally ar- 
ranged, and pointing radially outward and upward, so that the whole 
affair has a pronounced stellate outline when viewed from above. 
Spicules usually smooth, without verrucee, but often with lobular 
processes. On the bases ai the polyps they are obliquely arranged; 
higher up they are transverse, there being two horizontal series be 
tween the ridges under the tentacle bases, forming a concave surface 
to which the spicules conform. Just above and inside of each of 
the spines referred to above, a band of imbricating squamiform spic- 
ules in several indefinite rows passes along the dorsal surface of 
each infolded tentacle. The cortex contains an outer layer of long 
terete spicules, and an inner layer of smaller, scale-like forms. 
The color of the entire colony is a brilliant golden yellow when 
fresh. The exposed surface of the axis shows a particularly bril- 
hant golden luster, like highly burnished gold. 
Type.—Cat. No. 253880, U.S.N.M., Albatross Station 3826, south 
coast of Molokai, 371 fathoms. 
Additional Teas Y. —Between Molokai and Oahu: Station 4107, 
355 fathoms. 
This species is near Chrysogorgia octagonus Versluys® but the 
branching 1s much more profuse, the angles at tentacle bases are 
acute, and the arrangement of body spicules different. 
Genus METALLOGORGIA Versluys. 
Branches irregular, distant or absent in proximal part of the 
colony; on distal part they form a pannicle. Stem monopodial. 
'METALLOGORGIA MELANOTRICHOS (Wright and Studer). 
Plate LI, fig. 5 
Dasygorgia melanotrichos Wright and Sruper, Report on the Aleyonaria 
collected by H. M 8S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876, 1889, p. 15. 
Several fine specimens of this species were secured during the Ha- 
waiian cruise. One of these from Station 4018 had a cane un- 
branched stem 32 inches (80 cm.) long, surmounted by a graceful 
pannicle or crown of branches. 
Distribution—Off Kauai Island: Station 4018, 724-804 fathoms. 
Near Kauai Island: Station 4016, 305-318 fathonis (Cat. No. 25367, 
U.S.N.M.). 
Off Bird Island: Station 4157, 100-762 fathoms (oh No. 25884, 
U.S.N.M.). 
“Die Gorgoniden der Siboga-Expedition, I, Die Chrysogorgiide, 1902, p. 65. . 
