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Localities. — Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, 15-45 

 fathoms. 



Eight miles east of Sandon Bluff, Queensland, 35-40 

 fathoms. 



Distribution. — Indian Ocean (Lamouroux). Seas of the 

 Moluccas (Lamarck). India and China (Gray). Cuba (Ridley). 

 Elphinstone Island, Mergui Archipelago (Ridley)^ Aus- 

 tralia (Studer, Ridley, Thomson and Mackinnon). Rotti 

 and Aru Islands (Nutting). Burma and Andamans 

 (Simpson). 



Order STELECHOTOKEA, Bourne. 



Family TELESTID^. 



Genus Telesto, Lamouroux. 



Telesto arborea, Wright and Studer. 



Telesto arborea, Wright and Studer, Chall. Rep., Zool., xxxi., 

 1889, p. 262, pi. xxxix., figs. 1, la. Id., Thomson and 

 Henderson, Proc. Zool. Soc, i., 1906, p. 434. Id., 

 Thomson and Simpson, Alcyonaria of the Indian 

 Ocean, ii., 1909, p. 276. Id., Thomson and Mackinnon, 

 Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., 13, 1911, p. 692, pi. Ixvii., fig. 2. 



This species is represented by two fragments of a dark 

 brown colour. The lateral polyps are cylindrical, 4 to 5 mm. 

 in length and 2 mm. in diameter. The spicules agree with 

 the figure given by Thomson and Mackinnon. They are 

 transparent spindles with long, irregular, sharp spines. 



Locality. — Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, 15-45 

 fathoms. 



Distribution. — " Challenger " Station 190, in the Arafura 

 Sea, lat. 8° 56' S., long. 136° 5' E., 49 fathoms (Wright and 

 Studer). Kokotoni Harbour, 5 fathoms, and Wasin Channel, 

 10 fathoms, Zanzibar (Thomson and Henderson). Andamans, 

 270-45 fathoms ; southern portion of Malacca Strait ; Caspar 

 Straits ; east coast of Sumatra ; Karachee (Thomson and 

 Simpson). " Thetis " Station 42, off Wata Mooli, New South 

 Wales, 70-78 fathoms (Thomson and Mackinnon). 



1. Ridley— Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool, xxi., 1889, p. 243. 



