174 " THETIS " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Order Y. STELECHOTOKEA, Bourne. 

 Family TELESTID^. 



Genus TELESTO, Lamouroux. 



TELESTO TRICHOSTEMMA, Dana. 



Teleslo Irichoslemma, Wright and Studer, Cliall. Rep., Zool., xxxi., 

 18S9, pp. 264, -265. ■ • 



Station 44. 



Three branching specimens, much overgrown with Hydroids, 

 etc. The largest specimen is 19-5cm. in height, with an average 

 diameter of 2'.5 mm. The polyps are about 5 mm. apart ; they 

 are 2o-3 mm. in height, and project at an angle of 45° to 60°. 

 The spicules are as described by Wright and Studer, i.e., 

 "elongated spindles with strong lateral spines, often provided 

 with lateral branched processes, or forked at one extremity." 

 The colour of the specimens is yellowish-brown. 



Previously recorded from Torres Strait, .3-11 fathoms; Fiji 

 Islands; Maldives. 



TELESTO ARBOREA. Wright and Studer. 



(Plate Ixvii., fig. 2.) 



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

 1889, pp. 262-264, pi. xxxix., figs. 1, la. 



Telesto arborea, Thomson and Henderson, Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1906, pp. 431-435. 



Station 42. 



There are a few small, much broken species in the present 

 collection. The lateral polyps have dimensions of 4 x 2 mm. or 

 5 X 25 mm. The colour is dark brown. The spicules are as 

 described by Wright and Studer ; we give a figure of them here, 

 as there is apparently none in any previous report of this 

 .species. 



Previously recorded from Arafura Sea, 49 fathoms ; 

 Zanzibar (Kokotoni Harbour, 5 fathoms, and Wasin Channel, 10 

 fatlioms); Maldives. 



