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Show 1906.] ALCYONARIANS FROM ZANZIBAR. 417 A young colony, with similar spicules and autozooids, is mushroom- shaped with a small capitulum, on which the autozooids are more numerous at the margin than in the centre. The capitulum is somewhat oval in shape, 9 mm. in length by 7 mm. in breadth. The stalk is long and irregular in shape. Locality. Wasin Channel, 10 fathoms. Previously from Tumbatu. SINULARIA FUNGOIDES, sp. n. (Text-fig. 85.) This species is represented by a large brownish colony, which is tough in texture, rigid, and erect. Text-fig. 85. .71 - . . » ~ - 9B ^wSi* *. Tit*,^dr^ aSk^t • 'z zw8, -•• > / * j^"r *f ,H m V ' • Mm &kiWzL; M '"^wv"i>"Z'^.5'l*kr»*B . 3*L.* • • • - - • .-7t- ^ " - - - Sinularia fungoides, sp. n. On the outer surface of the much-wrinkled trunk there is a |