“Cinochyra barbata, sp. n.—Sponge sub-spherical or subcylindrical, seated on a dense mass of its own anchoring filaments. Oscules and pores as in genus. Spicules—(1) fusiform acerate, 8.03 by 0.71 mm.; and a smaller acerate of the cortex, 0.892 by 0.0355 mm.; (2) forks, a fusiform shaft, 13.21 by 0.0296 mm.; rays, 0.178 mm. long; (3) trichite forks, shaft, 0.13 by 0.004 mm.; rays variable in length, one longer, about 0.03 mm. long; two shorter, about 0.016 mm. long ; (4) anchors confined to the lower part of the sponge; shaft from 20.0 to 40.0 by 0.024 to 0.03 mm.; rays, 0.103 by 0.016 mm.; spread 0.118 mm.; (5) arculi and sigmellæ, about 0.0156 mm. long.; (6) globules, 0.0535 mm. in diameter.

Habitat.—Kerguelen, 10 to 150 fms.”

(Sollas, 1886)