692 " THETIS " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Order V. STEhEGHOTOK¥..\, Bourne. 

 Family TELESTID^. 



Genus T E L E S T O , Lamouroux. 



TELESTO TRICHOSTEMMA, Dana. 



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

 1889, pp. 264, 2o5. 



Station 44. 



Three branching specimens, much overgrown with Hydroids, 

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

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

 are 2'5-3 ram. in height, and |)roject 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 Itranched processes, or forked at one extremity." 

 Tiie colour of the specimens is yellowish-browu. 



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

 Islands ; Maldives. 



TELESTO ARBOREA, Wright and Studer. 



(Plate Ixvii., fig. 2.) 



Telesto ai'borea, Wright and Studer, Chall. Rep., Zool., xxxi , 

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



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

 1906, pp. 434-435. 



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 

 fathoms); Maldives. 



