40 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vor. V, 
statoblasts of specimens taken in Travancore were invariably oval, 
although varying considerably in proportions; but some of the 
statoblasts of those from the Bombay Presidency were distinctly 
kidney- or bean-shaped. 
In both localities the specimens were taken in November, but 
in different years. Those from Travancore (1908) were found to 
be undergoing a process of regeneration owing to the development 
of statoblasts 77 sztw, and only a few polypides were fully developed. 
Those, however, from Bombay (1909) were in a much more vigor- 
ous condition, although even in their case many of the polypides 
were not fully formed. It seems not improbable that F. idica 
is one of the species that dies down at the beginning of the hot 
weather, and is regenerated by the spreuting of the statoblasts, 
either in the old zocecia or on a new site, at the beginning of the 
Endian— “witer”” 
Subfamily Plumatelline. 
Key to the genera of Plumatelline 
t. Statoblasts without hooked processes. 
A. Zocecia cylindrical, not em- 
bedded in a gelatinous invest- 
ment. 
a. Zocecia arising directly from 
one another ; no stolon ; free 
statoblast oval ..  Plumatella. 
a’. Zocecia upright, arising 
singly or in groups from 
a linear stolon ; free stato- 
blasts oval a .. Stolella. 
B. Zocecia cylindrical, embedded 
in a structureless gelatinous 
investment. 
Zocecia arising from a ramify- 
ing stolon ; statoblasts circu- 
Wait: % > sie .. [Stephanella| 
C. Polypides embedded in a hya- 
line syncecium that conceals 
the cylindrical form of the 
zocecia. 
c. Polypides upright their base 
far removed from that of 
the zoarium when they are 
expanded .. Lophopus. 
c’. Polypides recumbent for 
the greater part of their 
length at the base of the 
zoarium - .. [Australella]. 
1 Australella, gen. novy.—Zocecia recumbent, aggregated into small linear 
groups, which are connected with each other by stolon-like lobes and embedded 
