194 VERRILL, SYNOPSIS OF 



Hong Kong. "Abundant on rocks at low-water mark, 

 which it covers with a light bluish scum." Dr. Wm. Stimp- 

 son. 



TELESTO RAMICULOSA Verrill. 



Cornularia aurantiaca Stimpson, 1. c. p. 375. (non T. aurantiaca 

 Lamx.) 



Plate ^.figures 10, 100, 106. 



Corallurn irregularly branching, the branches and coral- 

 lites straight, subcylindrical (clavate when young) marked 

 with numerous, fine, longitudinal sulcations. The upper 

 portion of the polyps projecting considerably beyond the 

 firmer tubes in expansion, pellucid, somewhat constricted 

 at the junction with the tubes. Tentacles long and rather 

 broad, with a single series of elongated lateral lobes, which 

 are themselves tuberculated. Color pale orange, polyps 

 transparent with a few linear spicula on the sides, stomach 

 crimson. Height 2 inches. 



Hong Kong. Dredged sparingly in 10 fathoms, shelly 

 bottom. Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



TELESTO? NODOSA Verrill, nov. sp. 



In this species the stalks usually rise half an inch or 

 more and then divide at once into a cluster of twelve to fif- 

 teen slender corallites or branchlets, which diverge from one 

 point. By continued growth another leading polyp arises 

 from the cluster and after a short distance produces another 

 similar cluster, thus forming an elongated stalk, densely 

 ramulous along the sides, except where the intervals be- 

 tween the clusters occur, and even there scattered cells of- 

 ten appear. Corallites slender, turbinate, a third of an inch 

 long, the walls very thin, encircled by numerous elevated 

 rings, and finely striated longitudinally. 



Height of the largest specimen about three inches. 



Loo Choo Islands, in pools at low water. Dr. Wm. 

 Stimpson. 



Dry specimens only of this species are in the collection, 

 and therefore its true characters are somewhat uncertain. 

 In many respects, and especially in the transverse rings 

 around the tubes, it resembles some species of Tubularia. 



