146 " THETIS " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Order I. STOLONIFERA, Hickson. 

 Family CORNULARIIDJE. 



Genus C L A V IT L A R I A, Quoij and Gaimard. 



CLAVULARIA FLAY A, Hickson. 



Clavularia Jiava, Hickson.— A Revision of the Genera of the 

 Alcyonaria Stolonifera with a Description of one New Genus 

 and" several New Species. (Trans. Zool. See , xiii , 1894, p. 341, 

 pi. 1., figs, 12 and 13). 



ClavuJaria flara, Hickson. — Preliminary Report on a Collection 

 of Alcyonaria and Zoantharia from Port Pliilip. (Proc. Roy. 

 Soc. Vict., (U.S.), ii., 180O, pp. 136-140). 



A few small pieces of a Clavularia agree with Hickson's 

 description of C. /am. The .stolons are thin and ribbon-like; 

 the cylindrical polyps, 3-5 mm. in height,, with a diameter of 

 about 1-.5 mm., are separated from one another by rather wide 

 intervals, 1-2-5 mm. The upper part of the polyp with the tent- 

 acles is retracted completely into the stout-walled, heavily- 

 armoured lower portion. Tlie spicules agree with tliose described 

 by Hickson, but are flesh-pink instead of yellow. The colour of 

 the colony is a deep salmon-pink. 



Kukenthal- places Clavularia fara, Hickson in his amended 

 genns Anthelia. His amended genus Clavularia, however, is 

 separated from Anthelia by having a lower, non-retractile, calyx- 

 like thick-walled portion, and an upper, retractile, thin-walled 

 portion bearing the tentacles. As Clavularia flava, Hickson, 

 answers this description, we think that Kiikeuthal is mistaken in 

 seeking to remove it from its original position in the genus 

 Clavularia. 



Locality. — Between Port Jackrton and Tiiggerah. 



Previouslv i-eeorded from the coast of Victoria, shallow water. 



'Kiikenthal— Alcyonacea — Wissenschaftliclie Ergebnisse iter Deutschen 

 Tiefsee Expedition, "xiii., 1E06, p. 11. 



