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COELENTERATA.
placed on all sides of the branchlets and on the internal surface of the
branches, Axis continuous, horny, black. British Museum. Locality not
given.
Menella indica, gen. et sp. nov., Gray (I. c. p. 407). Coral cylindrical, end
(of the branches ?) clavate, rounded, surface spiculose. Polype-cells on all
sides of the cylindrical stem (and branches), close together, forming a rough
spiculose surface with hexagonal areolae. Polypes retractile: when retracted,
convex, with an oblong concavity, surrounded with spicides. Axis horny,
black. Hab. Bombay.
Lignella, gen. nov., Gray (I.e. p. 407). L. richardi= Gorgonia richardi,
Lamx.
Leucoella cervicomis, gen. et sp, nov., Gray (I. e. p. 407). Coral branched,
fan-like, in the same plane, compressed; branches furcate, upper side convex
or angular, lower side concave, smooth, barren, with a more or less wide central
groove. Bark thin and smooth. Polype-cells large and spherical, scattered
or in lines on the upper surface and margin of the stem and branches.
Axis white, wood-like, soft, with fusiform warty spicules, which are generally
slender and elongate, but some are thicker and more ventricose. Brit. Mus,
Loc. unknown.
Bhipidella verticillata, Solander. This, the Gorgonia verticillata, Esper,
Rhipidogorgia verticillata, M.-Edw. & Haime, and Suberigorgia verticillata,
Koll., should be restored as a distinct generic type (Gray, loc. cit. p. 407).
Vioa asbestina, Nardo. In like manner, Dr. Gray (loc. cit. p. 408) re-establishes
Nardo's generic term for this coral (=Lobularia asbestina, Ehr., Briareum
asbestinum, Verrill, and B. suberosum (pars), Koll).
From conclusions arrived at after careful examination of the calcareous
spicula in the sections Pvimnoacea, Gorgoniacea, and Gorgoniellacece of the
subfamily Gorgoniinae and family Gorgoniidae, Mr. W. S. Kent (M. Micr. J.
Feb. 1870, pp. 76-94), proposes the following alterations in the nomenclature
of certain species:—To Muvicea should be referred Gorgoniaplantaginea, Lmk.
(Eunicea plantaginea, M.-Edw.) ; to Echinogorgia, K8U., Rhipidogorgia coavctata,
M.-Edw., Muriceafungifera, M.-Edw., and Gorgoniagranifera, Lmk.;
to Eunicea, Plexaura pensilis, Val, and P. pendula, Val.; to Plexaurella, Gorgonia
heteropora,hmk.; to Gorgonia, Muriceaplacomus,Val. & M.-Edw. (non
Esp.), Plexaura racemosa, Yal., Verrueella fareata, M.-Edw.; to Leptogorgia,
Gorgonia miniata, pnmicea, and ramulus, M.-Edw. Spicules of the Leptogorgian
type ocour in various modifications in each of the following genera
of Milne-Edwards:—Lophogorgia, Pterogorgia, Xiphigorgia, Rhipidogorgia,
Phyllogorgia, Hymenogorgia, Phycoyorgia, and Gorgonella. Verrucella violacea
should probably be made the type of a new genus, having incorporated with
it Gorgonia lilae-ina and sanguinolenta, Val. To Juncella should be referred
Cteuocella pectinata, Primnoa myura, Leptogorgia boryana, Rhipidogorgia
laeuens, plagalh, umbraculum, Pterogorgia betulina, Verrucellafiexuosa.
The following new species are described by Verrill, Tr. Conn. Acad i.
p. 551-558 :—
Leptogorgia tenuis, La Paz ; L. lobata, sp. n.,=i. ramulus, variety, Acapulco,
Cape St. Lucas, &c.; L. exigua, Acapulco, Corinte, &c.: Verrill, Tr.
Conn. Ac. i. pp. 551-553. L. robusta and L. dichotoma, Sherbro' Island, W,
Africa, Verrill, Am. J. Sc. xlix. p. :;74, 375.
Eugorgia multifida, sp. n., Verrill (Tr. Conn. Ac. i. p. 554), La Paz. Mazatlan,
&c.