664 " THETIS " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS, 



Order L STOLONIFERA, Hickson. 

 . Family CORNULAEIID^. 



Genus CLAYULARIA, Quoy and Gaimard. 



CLAVULARIA FLAVA, Hickson. 



Clavularia Jlava, Hickson. — A Revision of the Genera of tlie 

 Alcyonaria Stolonifera with a Description of one New Genus 

 and several New Species. (Trans. Zool. Soc , xiii , 1894-, p. 341, 

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



C lavidaria flava, Hickson. — Preliminary Report on a Collection 

 of Alcyoniu'ia and Zoantharia from Port Philip. (Proc. Roy. 

 Soc. Vict., (n.s,), ii., 18D0, pp. 136-140). 



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

 description of C.,/?rtU(^. Tiie 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. The spicules agree with those described 

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

 the colony is a deep salmon-pink. 



Kiikenthal^ places Clavularia Jiava, Hickson in his amended 

 genus 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 Kiikenthal is mistaken in 

 seeking to remove it from its original position in the genus 

 Clavularia. '* 



Locality. — Between Port Jackson and Tuggerah. 



Previously recorded from the coast of Victoria, shallow water. 



^Kiikenthal— Alcyonacea — VVissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen 

 Tiefsee Expedition, xiii., 1906, p. 11. 



