Hawaiian Octocorals — Bayer 
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spindles somewhat smaller than those of the 
calyces; they are frequently rather strongly 
curved, and are arranged with no regularity 
at all. 
TYPE: U.S.N.M. No. 22590. Vicinity of 
Kauai Island: Mokuaeae Islet bearing S.54°E., 
3.5 miles distant, in 528 fathoms, fine gray 
sand and mud, bottom temperature 39.6° F.; 
June 12, 1902 ("Albatross” station 3992). 
REMARKS: Professor Nutting must have 
misinterpreted the strong anthocodial spicu- 
lation, the en chevron arrangement of the 
calycular spicules, and the horny axis, which 
is really no more than a substrate for the 
colony described. In several places there is a 
considerable amount of bottom detritus be- 
tween the stolon and the axis. The iridescence 
and general appearance of this axis suggest 
that it may have belonged to a primnoid. 
The external features of this species im- 
mediately recall Thomson and Dean’s Clavu- 
laria ornata (1931: 13, pi. 14, figs. 1, 5; pi. 21, 
fig. 2), which differs in having the distal 
tentacle spicules arranged longitudinally in- 
stead of transversely as in C. grandiflora, fewer 
and larger spicules in the anthocodial arma- 
ture, and longer calyces with somewhat 
shorter anthocodiae. 
Order TELESTACEA 
Family TELESTIDAE 
Genus Telestula Madsen 
DIAGNOSIS: Octocorals of the Telestacea 
order, having small slender zooids in which 
the mesenteries reach down to the stolon 
only while the zooids are young; the lower 
part of the coelenteric cavity in the older, 
more lengthened zooids being partially filled 
with a mesogloeal tissue. The proximal part 
of the zooid thus developed into a sort of 
stem which may constitute the largest part of 
the zooid and from which secondary zooids 
may rise. The proximal part of the secondary 
zooids being developed in a similar manner 
when they reach a certain size. Secondary 
zooids of higher order may occur. (Madsen, 
1944: 16.) 
TYPE. SPECIES: Eekstula septentrionalis Mad- 
sen (by original designation). 
REMARKS: The genus Teleslula originally 
included, in addition to the genotype, Pseudo- 
cladochonus mosaka Thomson and Dean, and 
possibly P. versluysi Thomson and Dean. To 
this list should be added: Telesto amhtgua 
Nutting, Clavularia expansa Thomson and 
Dean, and Clavularia spiculicola Nutting. 
Clavularia corrugata Nutting is also a telestid 
and is tentatively referable to Telestula. 
In describing members of this genus, I will 
refer to the greatly elongated anthostelar part 
of the zooids as the "body tube,” the distal- 
most margin of this as seen in contracted 
specimens as the "calycular margin,” the 
introversible part between the anthostele and 
the tentacles as the "neck zone” which, with 
the remainder of the retractile part bearing 
the tentacles, forms the "anthocodia.” The 
spiculiferous mesogloeal tissue occluding the 
lower part of the gastrovascular cavity will 
usually be spoken of simply as "intrusion 
tissue” and its spicules as "intrusion spicules.” 
Telestula spiculicola (Nutting) 
Figs. 6, 7 a-b 
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Clavularia spiculicola (part) Nutting, 1908: 
553, pi. 47, fig. 1.^; not pL 41, fig. 1. 
DIAGNOSIS: Primary zooids 0.6-0. 8 mm. in 
diameter and up to 50 mm. long, arising 
from ribbon-like or more spreading stolons; 
secondary zooids usually present on fully 
developed primaries. Spicules of anthostelar 
wall oblong, flattened, strongly warted plate- 
lets about 0.2 mm. in length; those of stolons 
narrower, sparsely but prominently warted; 
those of intrusion tissue large, branched 
forms about 0.3 mm. in length. 
DESCRIPTION: The colonies arise from 
stolons which encrust or creep along large 
sponge spicules. The primary zooids are 
rather sinuous, less than 1 mm. in diameter, 
and attain about 50 mm. in length. The pri- 
mary zooids more than 15 mm. long usually 
bear a few secondary zooids which are well 
